ROCHESTER, N.Y.–Carestream Health today announced it has favorably settled two lawsuits with Caliper Life Sciences. In the first lawsuit, filed in February, 2010, Caliper, its wholly owned subsidiary, Xenogen, and Stanford University alleged that Carestream’s marketing and sales of its instrument systems induced infringement of seven imaging patents that are exclusively licensed to Xenogen by […]

Region Skåne, the authority in charge of primary and secondary public health care for the whole southern part of Sweden, has selected Software Point and LABVANTAGE to deliver a $4 million turn-key solution for digitizing the histopathological workflows in the whole region. The system will be possibly the largest such installation in the world and […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and DURHAM, N.C. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Expression Analysis Inc. today announced that Expression Analysis has achieved Certified Service Provider status for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System. SureSelect has been shown to greatly increase the speed and cost-efficiency of next-generation sequencing by enabling researchers to focus experiments on […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Affymetrix, Inc. today announced commercialization of the next-generation human transcriptome array demonstrated by Stanford University researchers to be superior to mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) in gene expression profiling studies. In multiple experiments using a clinically relevant transcriptome discovered by deep sequencing, the research scientists compared the throughput and performance of both profiling technologies and […]

ATCC (American Type Culture Collection), the world’s largest and most diverse bioresource center, provides an STR Profiling Service for human cell line authentication. With over 20 years of experience performing short tandem repeat profiling (STR profiling) on its extensive biorepository – more than any other provider – ATCC offers investigators the easiest and surest solution […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Firefly BioWorks, Inc., a manufacturer of universally compatible multiplex assays, announced today it was awarded a $2M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute for microRNA profiling. MicroRNAs are an emerging class of biomarkers that are proving to be important indicators for early diagnosis of cancer and other […]

Palo Alto, California – PREMIER Biosoft, a leading provider of software solutions for life science research, today announced the complete acquisition of Redasoft, a privately held company incorporated in California, USA and marketer of Visual Cloning, a popular sequence analysis software. PREMIER Biosoft expects this strategic acquisition to accelerate its growth in life science software […]

Sunnyvale, CA – American Peptide Company recently began a collaboration with Sandia Biotech to synthesize peptides to be used in their Split Green Fluorescent Protein (sGFP) detection system. The split GFP technology consists of a 16 amino acid fusion tag and a complementary protein to detect the fusion peptide without any enzymes or special buffers. […]

Life Technologies now offers MagMAX™ FFPE Isolation Kits — two new magnetic bead-based kits designed specifically for the isolation of both total RNA and DNA from Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) samples. MagMAX™ FFPE Isolation kits help scientists get to discovery – faster and safer than ever before. What’s unique about the MagMAX™ FFPE kits […]

Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) announced today a collaboration with BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), to co-host a public seminar series on the isolation and analysis of single cells. Entitled A Powerful Technique for Single-Cell Analysis, the public seminar series will showcase cell isolation using the BD FACSAria ™ III Cell Sorter […]