RayBiotech, Inc. today announced that it has formally launched a partnering program for select diagnostic core facilities at academic and government research institutes in the United States and Canada. Under the terms of the partnership program, core diagnostics facilities will be able to provide proprietary RayBiotech proteomic analysis services as a component of their current […]

Basel, Switzerland — Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Genedata Screener® is in full production at the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. The Conrad Prebys Center, a premier academic facility for chemical probe and drug discovery, conducts […]

MUNICH, Germany – Bruker microCT presents its new product line of advanced, high-resolution micro computed tomography (CT) systems for three-dimensional (3D) X-ray imaging following the recent acquisition of SkyScan N.V.. Bruker microCT instruments can be configured for numerous applications in materials research and in the life sciences, including in vivo preclinical animal imaging, in vitro […]

SAN DIEGO, — Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today issued an industry-wide call to close the productivity gap from innovation through commercialization that is slowing product development and time-to-market and hampering competitiveness for science-driven organizations. Currently, only 25 percent of projects in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to […]

WALTHAM, Mass.– PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of its Ensemble® for Biology™ platform, an integrated informatics suite of applications for creating a collaborative and integrated biology workflow from research and development to quality assurance and control. The Ensemble for […]

Roche announced today the immediate availability of a new software upgrade and further upcoming sequencing performance and workflow improvements to the company’s 454 GS Junior System. Now a widely published benchtop next-generation sequencing platform, the GS Junior System is rapidly advancing research worldwide in areas of infectious disease, cancer, environmental microbiology and agriculture1. The new […]

FREMONT, Calif.,– WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBS.OB), a nano-scale qPCR Company, announced today a strategic realignment and new direction for the organization. The Company’s focus will be to enable customers to perform accurate high-throughput qPCR projects for gene expression, genotyping, and target enrichment for next-generation sequencing in a simpler and more cost-effective way. Underlying this […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.– Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) has begun direct service to customers in China. Through the establishment of a wholly-owned Fluidigm subsidiary in China in late January 2012, officially known as Fluidigm (Shanghai) Instrument Technology Co., Ltd. or ???(??)????????, Fluidigm will improve services to its Chinese customer base and expects to rapidly build a […]

Bedford, MA – Rapid Micro Biosystems, the provider of rapid, automated, non-destructive detection and enumeration technologies in microbiology, today announced the 2013 availability of the next generation of Growth Direct™ applications. The tests are specifically designed for environmental monitoring and sterility applications in pharmaceutical quality control laboratories. Representing a quantum leap from the current sterility […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, has released a major new update to its CytoSure™ Interpret Software for array Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (aCGH) analysis. By utilising an entirely new relational database design, the software now allows sample data to be stored and analysed in accordance […]