MADISON, Wisconsin – Hereditary hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in humans. A German research team led by Ingo Kurth from the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Jena, Germany, used a number of different methods, including Roche’s NimbleGen Custom Sequence Capture 385K array to identify the gene mutated in the […]

LEXINGTON, Mass.–RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced the publication of data from a collaboration with the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and Prognosys Biosciences that further validates RainDance’s “hotspot” approach for detecting low prevalence somatic mutations in heterogeneous tumor samples. The publication, entitled “Detection of Low Prevalence Somatic Mutations […]

SAN JOSE, CA and BLOOMINGTON, IN– Persistent Systems (BOMBAY: PERSISTENT) (NSE: PERSISTENT), the leader in outsourced software product development services, today announced a $100,000 academic research grant to Indiana University Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing. The grant further extends Persistent Systems’ investment in the Persistent Indiana Research Center (PIRC) R&D incubator established in collaboration […]

Global leader in high content screening introduces latest version of Columbus data storage and analysis system at 2012 High Content Analysis Conference in San Francisco WALTHAM, Mass.–PerkinElmer Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, will showcase the enhanced Columbus 2.3 Image Data Storage and Analysis System at […]

SAN DIEGO — Today ELISAlink officially announced the January 2012 release of its online life science marketplace. ELISAlink.com will be focused on serving ELISA users by offering thousands of products, from multiple vendors, in one place. ELISA, an acronym for Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, is an in-vitro medical device used across the world in research and […]

Sunnyvale, CA – Molecular Devices, LLC., today announced it has been awarded a US patent for its parallel recording technique (PPC), which measures ionic currents from a population of cells, rather than single cells, on planar patch clamp systems. The technique enhances ion channel assay success rates to near 100%. The PPC technique measures a […]

KIEL, Germany & AARHUS, Denmark–Today, CLC bio and German high performance computing experts, SciEngines, announced a collaboration to completely integrate CLC bio’s server- and desktop-based sequence analysis software with SciEngines’ FPGA-based RIVYERA platform for massively parallel computing. Initially, the system will feature implementations of nucleotide-nucleotide BLAST (BLASTn), protein-protein BLAST (BLASTp), and Smith-Waterman. More algorithms will […]

The Nano BioDiscovery™ Division of NanoInk®, Inc. announced today the release of a new automated platform for the analysis of its protein NanoArray assays. NanoInk’s NanoArray Assay System™ enables detection, identification, and quantitation of clinically relevant, low abundance proteins from a wide variety of sample types for applications such as biomarker analysis, translational medicine, and […]

IntegenX Inc., the leading developer of rapid human DNA identification technology, DNA sequencing library preparation systems, and DNA/RNA room temperature stability and storage products, today announced the appointment of Bob Barrett as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Human Identity Products (HID). Mr. Barrett will drive the strategy for introducing the RapidHIT™ 200 […]

Abcam Biochemicals is the new name for the Ascent Scientific range of exceptional quality, high performance biochemicals. The rebranding follows Abcam plc’s recent acquisition of the company in September 2011. The acquisition has extended Abcam’s product portfolio into small molecules and is in line with the Company’s vision of becoming the world’s leading supplier of […]