Ann Arbor, Mich. and Cambridge, Mass., Compendia Bioscience today announced that it has signed a three-year licensing agreement with H3 Biomedicine, Inc. to Compendia’s full suite of Oncomine tools including Oncomine Concepts Edition and Oncomine Power Tools Edition. In addition, Compendia and H3 will work together to mine data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) […]

Gaithersburg, Md., OpGen, Inc., a whole-genome analysis company developing and commercializing a complete suite of break-through products and services based on its proprietary Whole Genome Mapping technology, announced today a new application for whole human chromosome mapping that improves the completeness of human genomes and enables thorough analysis of a wide spectrum of structural variations. […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform, today announced agreements with leading institutions – Geisinger Health System (GHS) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) – to develop clinically relevant workflows to provide new insights into the use of DNA sequencing in medicine. As part of these relationships, key laboratories […]

Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic systems and devices, is pleased to announce its collaboration with GigaGen Inc. (San Francisco, CA) in the development of a novel Droplet Merger Chip for massively parallel single cell genetic analysis. Measuring just 15mm x 22.5mm, the novel glass microfluidic chip facilitates fast and […]

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA, A leading protein science solutions company today announced strategic changes including new leadership and a new company name. Emerald BioSystems, known for its protein purification instruments and esteemed Wizard line of protein crystallography applications, will now be known as Emerald Bio. The new management changes include the appointment of CEO, George Abe, […]

MILFORD, Mass., SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc., a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Linden Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm that focuses […]

LONDON, UK, Leading sample management software provider, Titian Software, has announced that its Mosaic™ sample management software has recently been selected by Roche to provide fast, easy access to the company’s sample banks in Europe and the US. Mosaic, which is capable of seamlessly integrating with a wide range of automated robotic hardware and infrastructure, […]

HAMBURG, Germany, Eppendorf AG has licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to Agilent Technologies, including US patent Nos. 6,767,512 and 7,074,367. Eppendorf utilizes the technology in its Eppendorf Mastercycler® pro gradient, Mastercycler nexus gradient and Mastercycler ep realplex models. Eppendorf AG, based in Hamburg, Germany, develops, produces and distributes instruments and consumables for […]

SOMERVILLE, Mass., and BUDAPEST, Hungary, TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) and ChemAxon, a leader in providing chemical software development platforms and desktop applications for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, today announced the full integration of the TIBCO Spotfire® Analytics Platform with ChemAxon’s Instant JChem data management application. Through this integration, new levels of visualization, analysis […]

Today European scientists are meeting to kick off the 4DCellFate project, funded by the European Commission under the FP7 program. The 4DcellFate project will tackle the question of how the Polycomb Repressive Complex (PRC) and Nucleosome Remodelling and histone Deacetylase (NuRD) complexes function across the genome and time during differentiation, by applying cutting- edge technologies, […]