Redwood City, Calif. -– QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced today that its business area, QIAGEN Bioinformatics, has been named by Genomics England (GeL) an assessment winner for the UK100K project, along with other life science technology providers. The company will be providing project researchers access to Ingenuity® Variant Analysis™, a powerful […]

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced the release of Lasergene 12.1 today, representing a major advancement in integrating traditional Lasergene desktop computer software with advanced capabilities on the cloud. Genomic scientists can now run multiple sequence assemblies on the cloud simultaneously without the need to invest in a large compute cluster. Lasergene 12.1 also introduces the […]

Redwood City, CA — The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $1M contract for whole genome, whole exome, and SNP Chip DNA data analysis to Bina Technologies, Inc., as part of the VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to enroll 1 million veterans over the next years. Bina Technologies will provide […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced that it has closed the equity financing it disclosed on October 3, 2014, through which BioTime received $29,425,961 and certain subsidiaries received approximately $1,558,905 from the sale of BioTime common shares. BioTime and the subsidiaries intend to use the net proceeds from their sales to […]

Somerset, NJ –– LabVantage Solutions announced the immediate availability of LabVantage 7 at its annual user conference. LabVantage 7 provides significantly improved user experience as well as capabilities that make it easier to enable process optimization. LabVantage 7 was built with extensive customer feedback that was backed up by a beta testing program. LabVantage 7 […]

ST. LOUIS, MO -– Appistry, Inc., a leading provider of tools, software, and services that bring the power of genomics to next-generation medicine, has selected the winner of its inaugural Appistry Pipeline Challenge. A project team led by Dr. Benjamin Darbro, director of the Shivanand R. Patil Cytogenetics and Molecular Laboratory at the University of […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) announced today that Michael H. Mulroy and Stephen L. Cartt are joining its Board of Directors. Mr. Mulroy has been appointed to the Board to fill a vacancy and Mr. Cartt has been nominated for election to the Board at the Company’s upcoming annual shareholders’ meeting, which will […]

Bishops Stortford, UK — Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, has launched the Dotmatics Ecosystem Program. It will enable third party organisations to develop and seamlessly integrate their scientific applications into Dotmatics’ solutions. The Dotmatics Platform is a single, fully integrated system that includes knowledge management applications and information query and […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. -– LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today the commercial release of GeneAnalytics 1.0 atwww.geneanalytics.com. GeneAnalytics™ is a powerful, yet easy to use, gene set analysis tool designed to help life scientists and biomedical researchers identify expression signatures and functionality of their experimental gene sets, and define their roles in […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) today announced that it has agreed to sell up to an aggregate of 9,431,398 common shares, in a registered direct offering at an offering price of $3.12 per share. The price per share was the closing price of our common shares on the NYSE MKT on October 2, […]