Houston –– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today sponsorship of a new, two-year, postdoctoral Clinical Chemistry Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Fellows will be trained in classical clinical chemistry, laboratory administration and research practices to prepare them for directorship positions at medical schools or hospital-based clinical chemistry laboratories. “Our mission […]

Ipswich, MA – NEBsolutions, a dedicated team of customized reagent and service specialists at New England Biolabs® (NEB), is pleased to offer a suite of reagents and capabilities for molecular diagnostics (MDx) product development, at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC). NEB, a leader in the development and production […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., — Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced it has received market authorization from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its Xpert® MTB/RIF test. The review decision was based on the de novo 510(k) review process, which allows novel products without predicates to be down-classified and brought to market. Xpert MTB/RIF is designed […]

Shenzhen, China –BGI Health, a subsidiary sequencing application unit of BGI, and ELIPS, a Turkish company committed to providing biochemical products, equipments and services in biology and medical section, today jointly announced that they have entered an collaborative agreement on non-invasive fetal trisomy (NIFTY) test with the aim to significantly improve the local people’s reproductive […]

SAN DIEGO, — Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV), a developer of cell-free molecular diagnostics, announced the issuance of US patent 8,486,626, “Methods of detecting cell-free miRNA in urine and blood.” The patent pertains to the detection and quantitation of microRNA (miRNA) using a wide variety of technologies and platforms. MicroRNAs are known to play critical roles […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., – Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) and the American Lung Association (www.Lung.org) today announced a partnership to promote tuberculosis-related awareness in the U.S. and the need for improved TB (tuberculosis) diagnostics. Details of the planned program will be announced at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Lab Expo show in Houston, Texas. The […]

GERMANTOWN, Maryland, and HILDEN, Germany, — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a partnership with Exosome Diagnostics Inc. to develop and commercialize high-performance sample preparation kits for the processing of nucleic acids from exosomes. Combining the Exosome Diagnostics platform technology approach with select QIAGEN consumables and automation platforms has the potential […]

SAN DIEGO & NEW YORK — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that HistoGenetics, the leader in high-resolution sequence-based human leukocyte antigen (HLA) testing services, has selected the MiSeq sequencing system for use in its CLIA laboratory. HistoGenetics will deploy multiple MiSeqs to supplement its existing Sanger sequencing workflow to sequence HLA genes with high accuracy […]

SAN DIEGO, — Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV) announces that results emerging from ongoing clinical studies have confirmed the broad applicability of Trovagene technology across a variety of cancer types, and the successful development of a molecular diagnostic test capable of detecting and quantifying oncogene mutations from a simple urine specimen. The ability to regularly detect […]

Cambridgeshire, UK ,– Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products for the clinical and industrial market, and Promega, a leader in providing innovative solutions and technical support to the life sciences industry, have signed a supply agreement for the use of Promega’s Ultra-Glo™ luciferase in Lumora’s BART (Bioluminescent Assay in Real-Time) molecular diagnostics technology. […]