GAITHERSBURG, Md. –MaxCyte®, Inc., the pioneer in scalable, high-performance cell transfection systems, will be leading a series of events at Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s 13th Annual PepTalk to be held January 13-17, 2014, in Palm Springs, CA. The highlighted event will be the introduction of the 2014 MaxCyte STX® Scalable Transfection System, a smaller footprint version […]

Bishops Stortford, UK.Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, is pleased to announce today that the Translational Drug Discovery Group at the University of Sussex has selected Dotmatics’ fully searchable and web-based Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Studies Notebook, to complement their existing Dotmatics data management platform. The […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) and University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, announced today that they have collaboratively designed a wheat genotyping array and analyzed data from experiments as part of an effort to understand wheat genetics and breeding with a goal of ensuring guaranteed sustainable production. Axiom® Wheat Genotyping Array (Axiom Wheat […]

SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc., a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed follow-on public offering of $55 million of its common stock. In addition, the Company expects to grant the […]

Halifax, Nova Scotia – MedMira Inc., (MedMira) (TSXV: MIR), a developer of rapid testing technologies and solutions, today announced a U.S. distribution agreement with VWR International LLC, a global solutions provider of laboratory supplies and services with worldwide sales in excess of $4.1 billion in 2012. Through this new agreement, MedMira will benefit from the […]

Santa Clara, CA – ProteinSimple today launched Sally Sue and Peggy Sue, the next generation of high throughput Simple Western instruments. These instruments drive the sensitivity of the current high throughput Simple Western systems to performance levels well beyond any traditional Western. The Simple Western is a Western with none of the hassle. No messy […]

SAN DIEGO — BioNano Genomics announced today the purchase of an Irys™ System by UC Davis to assist, among other projects, in completing the genome assembly of Aegilops tauschii, one of three progenitors of today’s bread wheat. The team of researchers at UC Davis, led by Dr. Jan Dvorak, will use the Irys System in […]

Leiden, the Netherlands – MIMETAS and Galapagos (Euronext: GLPG) have entered into a research collaboration on the development of organ-on-a-chip-based human disease models for new medicine development. The companies will collaborate to develop miniaturized 3D cell culture models that mimic specific aspects of human diseases. These models will be applied to the identification and improvement […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has awarded a grant to the newly established Duke Molecular Physiology Institute. The DMPI research team is using Agilent’s integrated biology solutions to gain new insights into the metabolic and physiologic aspects of major chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. DMPI is headed by […]

SAN DIEGO — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative testing and genetic analysis solutions, today announced preliminary highlights of the Company’s 2013 performance, accomplishments and outlined key corporate objectives for 2014. Preliminary 2013 Performance Results (unaudited) • Total revenue of approximately $162 million, showing growth of approximately 81% year-over-year for 2013 […]