CONSHOHOCKEN, PA -– Instem, a leading provider of IT solutionsto the global early development healthcare market, announced today that The University of Louisville (UofL) Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (CPM) has purchased their Provantis® preclinical software solution as part of an expansion program. UofL funding for the expansion of its […]

INDIANAPOLIS -– DuraClone IM premixed dry reagent cocktails from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences standardize and streamline workflow for high content flow cytometry in translational research studies involving identification of cellular sub-populations of the human immune system. Based on collaborative work with the ONE Study consortium, these optimized, easy-to-use panels provide worry-free compensation to minimize labor […]

Ebersberg, Germany — Merger of Eurofins Genomics and VBC-Biotech into Austria to further grow the business in Europe. Eurofins Genomics, the genomics division of the Eurofins Scientific Group and international market leader in genomic services, has now established its own subsidiary in Austria. Customers will be served directly through Eurofins Genomics AT GmbH located in […]

Cambridge, MA — Seven Bridges Genomics, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a 5.8 million dollar contract as a part of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot Initiative. The goal of the project is to increase the speed of biomedical discovery by democratizing access to the world’s largest cancer genomics datasets. […]

Männedorf, Switzerland -– King’s College Hospital, London, has established a fully automated therapeutic drug monitoring protocol for clozapine using Tecan’s AC Extraction Plate™ and Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform. Lewis Couchman, Senior Clinical Scientist (Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory and Toxicology Department), explained: “We perform about 30,000 tests a year for clozapine, preparing the samples manually by […]

SAN DIEGO — BioNano Genomics, the genome mapping company, announced today the latest genomics research centers to purchase an Irys™ System. Among them are the Salk Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) and Genoscope (The French National Sequencing Center). Before Irys, obtaining a comprehensive view of a genome was a […]

BOTHELL, WA — — BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and precision thermal shipping products for cells and tissues (“BioLife” or the “Company”), announced today that Frederick, MD based RoosterBio, Inc., has adopted the Company’s CryoStor clinical grade cryopreservation freeze […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced updates to its SurePrint miRNA Microarrays to include targets from the latest public miRNA miRBase database. The database, miRBase 21, contains 28,645 entries, including more than 15 percent in content added from miRBase 20. Agilent SurePrint miRNA Microarrays feature innovative labeling and hairpin probe […]

Seoul, South Korea and San Francisco, USA – The personalized medicine biotechnology company Macrogen (www.macrogen.com) has announced it has licensed Clarity LIMS from GenoLogics Life Sciences Software (www.genologics.com), a leading provider of LIMS specifically designed for omics labs, to support its whole-genome sequencing and clinical sequencing services. Clarity is GenoLogics’ laboratory information management system built […]

SAN DIEGO — Thermo Fisher Scientific today introduced three new innovations to enhance genetic research: a novel enzyme intended to enhance single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and insertion and deletion (indel) performance on the Ion PGM System, a panel for genetically inherited deafness, and enhancements to its popular AmpliSeq Designer website. The new offerings were unveiled […]