CORNING, N.Y., — Corning Life Sciences, a segment of Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), today announced the opening of a life sciences lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The new lab is housed within the existing Corning West Technology Center and will further expand Corning’s customer- and research-centric approach to developing leading products and technologies for the […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., and ALEXANDRIA, Minn.,– Life Technologies Corporation and Douglas Scientific LLC today announced they have signed a collaboration and co-marketing agreement to optimize technologies from both companies and provide seamless solutions designed for high-throughput genotyping applications. This collaboration will leverage Life’s industry-leading TaqMan® Assays and Douglas’s disruptive Array Tape™ Platform. The growing demand for […]

Long Beach, California -– This Sunday, CLC bio and BioFormatix – a medical diagnostics software developer – will officially release their Bootstrapped Receiver Operating Characteristic (bROC) plug-in for CLC bio’s desktop software packages, CLC Main Workbench and CLC Genomics Workbench. The plug-in and the process behind developing it will officially be presented during CLC bio’s […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the University of California, Davis,Agilent Technologies Inc., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today a collaboration to create a public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen genomes to help speed identification of bacteria responsible for foodborne outbreaks. The database will provide a roadmap for development […]

Promega Corporation announces the newest addition to the PowerPlex® STR Systems family, the PowerPlex® Y23 System—a rapid human identification Y-Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) assay for forensic casework, offender databasing and relationship testing. Thermal cycling time is cut roughly in half, and the system detects substantially more Y-STR loci than current systems. The multiplex system uses […]

Belfast – Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and modular spectroscopy solutions, announces the launch of its multi-wavelength imaging portfolio.. The portfolio comprises of the TuCam, a state-of-the-art two camera adapter for simultaneous imaging with maximized field of view, as well as the Optosplit II, a cost-effective dual emission splitter that […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Gen9, Inc., a pioneer in the development of scalable technologies for synthesizing genes, today announced the appointment of Kevin Munnelly as President and Chief Executive Officer. The company also announced the appointment of Martin Goldberg, Ph.D., as Chief Operating Officer. Gen9 has developed a unique technology to synthesize DNA constructs and has […]

CULVER CITY, Calif. — Sofie Biosciences, Inc., a molecular imaging company offering a comprehensive range of products from preclinical imaging systems to novel diagnostic PET imaging probes, announced today that the Department of Energy has awarded the company a grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This Phase II award, for approximately $1M, […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the introduction of Ensemble® for QA/QC, an integrated informatics solution tailored to decrease procedural errors, and accelerate data review and results delivery of quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) laboratories. The solution […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its newly appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, Cristina Amorim, has been named Sustainability Executive of the Year at the Ethical Corporation’s annual Responsible Business Forum awards ceremony. She received the honor in recognition for her strategic role in Life’s emergence as a Corporate Social Responsibility […]