Boston, Mass. – Sample6, a company focused on applying biotechnology to advance food safety, announced today that it has secured a $11 million Series B financing round led by Canaan Partners. Joining the round are Cultivian Sandbox, a fund which invests in emerging technologies in the food and agriculture industry, and Series A lead investor […]

Jena/Hanover – At this year’s Biotechnica, the leading trade fair for biotechnology, which is taking place from October 8 to 10 in Hanover, Analytik Jena AG is introducing two new product lines in the areas of Biolmaging and PCR UV Workstations. At booth E40 in hall 9 and together with its subsidiaries UVP and CyBio, […]

Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, announced that it will introduce its new Cellmate™ Mk9 automated cell culture system at the World Vaccine Congress in Lille, France. The new system is designed for safe, high throughput production of adherent cell-based vaccines in a […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today launched an advanced high-throughput screening (HTS) array format that significantly increases the number of samples that can be processed on the Infinium® BeadChip family of genotyping arrays. Illumina’s Infinium assay leverages proven chemistries on a new 24-sample HTS BeadChip that supports up to 750,000 markers per sample and […]

MADISON, WI – VRL – San Antonio, a world-leader in research animal diagnostic services, has chosen Intuitive Biosciences’ Arrayed Immuno-Multiplexing (AIM) technology to handle its complex commercial needs and enhance its already robust serological services offering. VRL – San Antonio is in the process of enhancing and diversifying their service offering with the addition of […]

Montréal – Hundreds of researchers from North America, Europe, Australia and Asia have joined together in a consortium to identify the genetic basis of the five most common forms of cancer – breast, prostate, lung, ovarian and colorectal. The group, called the OncoArray Consortium, developed a new customized genotyping tool – the OncoArray – manufactured […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its GlobalFiler™ Express Kit has been approved by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for use by laboratories generating DNA profiles for inclusion in the National DNA Index System (NDIS) CODIS Database. NDIS manages the Federal CODIS forensic DNA database, which facilitates the […]

Cambridge, UK — Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a research service agreement with Blueprint Medicines Corp. (Blueprint), a patient-driven oncology company developing highly selective kinase inhibitors for genomically defined cancer subsets. Under the terms of the deal Horizon will […]

Lawrence, MA — A report validating the Charm MRLAFMQ test for the detection of aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) at the European Maximum Limit (EU ML) of 50 part per trillion (ppt) was issued today by the Belgium National Reference Laboratory, ILVO T&V, under the direction of Dr. Wim Reybroeck. The MRLAFMQ test is the only rapid, […]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Pall Corporation’s (NYSE:PLL) board of directors has elected Larry Kingsley as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Kingsley has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pall and a member of the company’s board of directors since October 2011. He succeeds Ronald L. Hoffman, who will assume the role of Lead […]