Roche released the following statement in response to a report issued by Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) recommending that shareholders of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) vote against the election of Roche’s independent director nominees to Illumina’s Board of Directors: “While we are disappointed that ISS has recommended that Illumina shareholders vote against our director nominees at […]

Nano3D BiosciencesTM (n3D), a company that specializes in three-dimensional (3D) cell culturing technology for the drug discovery, toxicology, and life science research markets, announces the release of its 24-well Bio-AssemblerTM. “We are very excited about this product release as it represents a significant milestone for our company from both a scientific and business perspective. The […]

Bristol, UK, Sydney and Newcastle, Australia — Abcam, together with The University of Newcastle and the Children’s Medical Research Institute, have today announced the expansion of their range of small molecule dynamin inhibitors for research. These are novel tools for investigating clathrin-mediated endocytosis and synaptic vesicle recycling and are available in the Abcam Biochemicals range. […]

DataApex is pleased to announce that Clarity Chromatography Software has been localized to German language. The Clarity German version will be for the first time displayed at Analytica 2012 Exhibition in Munich. The Clarity German version is planned to be officially released with Clarity version 4.0 in Q2/2012. The Clarity German version has been developed […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and function, today announced that its Board of Directors has, after careful review and consideration together with its financial and legal advisors, unanimously rejected Roche’s revised offer to acquire Illumina […]

BioMed Central, a long supporter of data sharing and the open data movement has now partnered with LabArchives, LLC to shed further light on science’s “dark data”. Through this new collaboration, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed Central journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of the popular LabArchives Electronic Laboratory […]

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif — Applied BioCode, Inc. today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent #8,148,139 (April 03, 2012) “Light Transmitted Assay Beads,” describing the method of use and manufacturing of its Barcoded Magnetic Beads (BMB) products. “The patent further expands the scope of our earlier patents, #7,858,307 […]

As of now, the AJ Blomesystem GmbH, a wholly owned Analytik Jena subsidiary, counts a new laboratory information management system to its comprehensive product portfolio. readyLIMS® is a high-performance, immediately ready to operate system. It is able to process the entire range of daily laboratory tasks from resources to be used to the graphical presentation. […]

AUSTIN, Texas,– Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that it has extended its global sales and distribution agreement with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) to 2023. In addition, Luminex has granted Bio-Rad global sales and distribution rights for Luminex’s award-winning MAGPIX multiplexing instrument. As part of the agreement, Bio-Rad will now offer the […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA – Knome Inc., the human genome interpretation company, today announced that it has continued to strengthen its executive management team, adding Charles Abdalian as Chief Financial Officer, Adam Rosenberg as Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Development, and Jay Therrien, PhD. as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Sales. “We are […]