Basel, Roche today announced that Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet, currently General Manager of Roche Pharma in France, has been appointed Head of Roche Partnering. Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet will assume her new role on February 1, 2012, and concurrently will join Roche’s enlarged Corporate Executive Committee, reporting to Severin Schwan, CEO of the Roche Group. She will relocate to […]

CLC bio, the market- leading bioinformatics sequence analysis software provider, today announced that Sapphire Energy, Inc. has installed a custom-made bioinformatics solution from CLC bio in their research center in San Diego. Sapphire Energy is at the forefront of the biofuel industry with the potential to radically change the world’s energy landscape with ‘Green Crude’ […]

SAN CARLOS, Calif. & PISCATAWAY, N.J.–NuGEN Technologies Inc., a market leader in the development of sample preparation solutions for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Genomic Profiling applications, today announced that its Encore® NGS Library Systems and Ovation® WGA Amplification Systems will be used for genetic analysis of saliva samples in a large scale, multi-year study […]

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced it has appointed Laura Lauman as Vice President of Marketing. In this executive management position, Lauman will lead Illumina’s global marketing efforts. “Lauman has a distinguished track record of success in building and driving growth in global, complex businesses and has significant general management experience in sales, marketing, R&D […]

Claremont BioSolutions announces distributor in Japan to expand sales and marketing efforts worldwide. (PRWEB) December 14, 2011 Claremont BioSolutions, LLC announced today that it has reached an agreement with Funakoshi for the distribution of its products for sample preparation, DNA isolation, and protein purification in Japan. The agreement reflects ClaremontBio’s expansion of its marketing efforts […]

Menlo Park, CA – DNA2.0 the leading provider of bioengineering solutions, today announced the integration of the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) into the company’s groundbreaking gene design and assembly tool, Gene Designer. SBOL is a synthetic biology standard exchange format that allows scientists to share, store, explore and publish genetic elements created through computer […]

CAMBRIDGE, England & BUDAPEST, Hungary & BOSTON–Linguamatics and ChemAxon are pleased to announce that they are partnering in a new, path-breaking project funded by EUREKA’s Eurostars Programme. The project is code-named “ChiKEL”, which means Chemically Informed Knowledge Extraction from Literature. ChiKEL will provide the first interactive text mining system designed for chemistry, integrating advanced chemical […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–Arrayit Corporation has approved the spin-off of its majority owned subsidiary, Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc. Arrayit Corporation will distribute to its existing shareholders its 78.18% interest in Arrayit Diagnostics as a stock dividend. The stock dividend distribution date and further details are expected to be announced early in the first quarter of 2012. Since July […]

Gaithersburg, Maryland – Ocimum Biosolutions, Inc. (d/b/a Gene Logic) today announced that it has retained Burrill & Company, Inc. as its strategic advisor. Burrill will assist the company in evaluating strategic alternatives related to Gene Logic and its assets, which could include a sale of its US-based company, operations or its assets. Burrill is actively […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Sagentia, an international technology and product development company, announced today that it has been selected by PathoGenetix to develop a commercial scale system for rapid microbial detection and strain typing based on PathoGenetix’s Genome Sequence Scanning Technology (GSS). The system is being designed to capitalize on the broad range of potential GSS applications […]