SANTA CLARA, Calif., and Oxford, England – Agilent Technologies Inc. and Oxford Gene Technology today announced they have expanded an existing partnership into an exclusive agreement for Agilent to provide OGT with oligonucleotide microarrays and SureSelect target enrichment products for next-generation sequencing. Mike Evans, chief executive of OGT, said: “We are delighted to have been […]

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK and CHALFONT St. GILES, UK –- Affitech A/S and GE Healthcare Life Sciences announced today that GE Healthcare Life Sciences has executed an exclusive license for the worldwide marketing and sales of products containing recombinant Protein L, granted by Affitech in a patent and know-how license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, […]

MADISON, Wis. – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced that it was named as the overall Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards. The Wall Street Journal 2011 Technology Innovation Awards are determined by a panel of independent judges who evaluated significant innovations that occurred in 2010. Six hundred and five applicants […]

GE Healthcare has added two new imagers to their family of biomolecular imaging systems, the Typhoon FLA 9500 for imaging of multifluorescent-, chemifluorescent-, radioisotope-labeled, and colorimetric samples and the Typhoon FLA 7000 IP for the dedicated study of radioisotope labeled samples. The Typhoon FLA 9500 is a versatile, high throughput, laser scanner ideally suited to […]

Shafer, Minnesota – Labor intensive, manual colony counting has long been the source of untold human error, delays, boredom, and frustration. Consequently, many labs have been driven to invest in automatic colony counters that can rapidly count colonies, create digital images, and record data, all at the click of a mouse. The bad news? Along […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–New research presented this week highlights the ability of NextBio to help life scientists and clinicians investigate publicly available genomic data to assess biological mechanisms underlying drug toxicity, as well as discover prospective cancer biomarkers for further validation. The unique capabilities of NextBio to search and make discoveries, not possible by other methods, […]

Palo Alto, California — PREMIER Biosoft, as a part of its contract software development services, has delivered OligoArchitect™ Online v2.0 to Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich. Sigma-Aldrich, with operations in over 40 countries, is a life science and high technology company. Its chemical and biochemical products are […]

BOSTON — Cytonome/ST, LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced cell cytometry and sorting systems, today announced a milestone in the high-speed detection of rare events. Cytonome/ST researchers have demonstrated robust identification of extremely rare target particles. Using Cytonome/ST’s existing parallel detection technology and cross contamination-free sample system, the researchers were able to reliably identify […]

San Francisco, CA – Real Time Genomics, Inc., today announced the immediate availability of RTG Investigator v2.3 sequence analysis software featuring native support for the Ion Torrent semiconductor sequencing platform. With this release, Ion PGM™ users with whole genome, exome and metagenomics data can generate world class genomic analyses in minutes, using the most advanced […]

BREA, CALIF. — Custom Design Services (CDS) from Beckman Coulter, Inc. provides researchers with single and multicolor custom-tailored conjugate configurations as well as purified antibodies. Beckman Coulter scientists having extensive experience in the design and optimization of multicolor reagent panels work with a wide variety of proprietary or customer-supplied human and non-human antibodies and use […]