Cambridge, UK — Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Desktop Genetics for development of a CRISPR design platform. The platform will be used by Horizon to quickly identify the best guide-RNAs in […]

Woburn, MA and Marshfield, WI. PathoGenetix, Inc., a developer of an automated system for bacterial strain typing, and Marshfield Food Safety, LLC, a full service microbiology and chemistry contract testing laboratory, have signed an agreement to evaluate PathoGenetix’s RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System. Under the agreement, Marshfield will conduct independent testing of the RESOLUTION instrument, assays […]

AMSBIO, specialists in 3D cell culture technology, has announced the launch of a 384-well version of the popular Alvetex®Scaffold cell culture plates. The new Alvetex®Scaffold 3D cell culture plates provide biopharmaceutical companies with a new tool to improve the predictive accuracy, productivity and biological relevance of their cell based high throughput testing. The new 384-well […]

Lawrence, MA –– Charm’s ROSA WET XR Aflatoxin Quantitative test for feed and grain receives GIPSA approval for the detection of 0 to 100 ppb aflatoxin in a single 5 minute assay. WET (Water Extraction Technology) eliminates the use of organic solvents such as ethanol and methanol through the use of a non-hazardous extraction powder […]

MELBOURNE, Australia — Life Technologies Corporation ( https://www.lifetech.com )(NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced that its MicroSEQ(R) Real-Time PCR workflow was officially approved by the Australian Government, Department of Agriculture as an Approved Test Method to detect pathogens in export meat and meat products. Australia is a major exporter of food and the second largest exporter of beef […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced MassHunter Profinder software designed for batch processing of complex mass spectrometric data. The latest member of the MassHunter software family, MassHunter Profinder transforms chemometric peak-finding workflows with enhanced batch processing, robust re-mining and alignment capabilities. “Using Agilent’s MassHunter Profinder in our untargeted metabolomics and proteomics experiments, […]

Gardner, MA — Vn96 is a synthetic peptide that was designed to specifically stick to surface molecules on microvesicles (MVs) and exosomes. Microvesicles are a facsimile of a diseased cell that contain the same altered genes and proteins that you would find in a sample obtained from a more invasive surgical biopsy. Microvesicles circulate in […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Fred Strohmeier, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Life Science Products and Solutions, has been named senior vice president, Agilent, and president of Agilent’s Life Sciences and Diagnostics Group (LDG), effective immediately. Strohmeier has been in charge of Agilent’s life sciences business, the […]

Palo Alto, California — PREMIER Biosoft, a leading bioinformatics company specializing in developing analytical software products for mass spectrometry, is pleased to announce the filing of a patent application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on December 6, 2013 for “Identification of Metabolites From Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data Using Databases of Precursor […]