VICTORIA, British Columbia Canada – GenoLogics today announced that EdgeBio, a leading sequencing services provider, has deployed the GenoLogics Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), bringing an unprecedented level of flexibility and adaptability to its next-generation sequencing (NGS) core laboratory. The GenoLogics LIMS replaces EdgeBios existing commercial LIMS software. “We required a LIMS that was built […]

SAN DIEGO – Gen-Probe Incorporated announced today that long-time chairman Hank Nordhoff has informed the board that he plans to retire at the end of 2011, and that the board has elected Carl Hull, the Company’s president and chief executive officer (CEO), to succeed him. Mr. Nordhoff led Gen-Probe as president and CEO from 1994 […]

ST. LOUIS – At a time when profound gaps remain in our understanding of how one person’s genes differ from another person’s, developing accurate methods to interpret the human genome is essential to uncover population history, population relationships and the genetic basis of some of the most common diseases affecting society. Recently published in PLoS […]

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

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Knome Inc., the human genome interpretation company, today announced the release of knomeBASE, an informatics service that transforms raw sequence data from human genomes into a format optimized for interpretation by geneticists seeking to understand the basis of human disease or drug response. Designed to enable the comparison and interpretation of large […]

GE Healthcare has launched the His Capture Kit and NTA Reagent Kit for time saving and convenient capture of histidine-tagged ligands using Biacore systems. The new His Capture Kit comprises of an optimized protocol and the required reagents for capture by an anti-histidine antibody. Requiring minimum assay development, the kit works in conjunction with a […]

Toray Industries, Inc. announces a competition award for groundbreaking research using 3D-Gene™, DNA microarray. It is donated to encourage further progress and achievements of scientists using DNA microarray technology in their research, leading to publishing papers of superior quality. This year, the award is focusing on the research related to microRNA expression, especially from blood […]

BGI, the world’s largest genomic organization, announces several bioinformatics analysis pipelines and software, including assembly and binning tools, genetic variation software, as well as two cloud-based green solutions for genomic-based research. In addition, GigaScience, an upcoming research journal published by BGI, announces the launch of its new, freely accessible, large-scale database: GigaDB. The launch of […]

HILLSBORO, Ore. – FEI, a leading instrumentation company providing imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, today announced that it has acquired TILL Photonics of Munich, Germany. TILL provides sophisticated, high resolution, digital light microscopes and high speed imaging systems for live cell fluorescence microscopy. “The Life Sciences market is a key growth opportunity […]

Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced Genedata Expressionist 7.0 for Genomic Profiling, which will be featured at the 3rd Annual Next Generation Sequencing Congress. The Congress showcases besides next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms and technologies some of the industry-leading computational tools for analyzing NGS […]