SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Cepheid CPHD today announced that Glenn Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, has been nominated for election to Cepheid’s Board of Directors at the company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on April 26, 2011. Dr. Steele has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Geisinger Health System, a physician-led health care system […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced that Patrick S. Jones has been appointed to Fluidigm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Jones fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Jeremy Loh, which was effective on March 10, 2011. Mr. Jones will also join and chair the Board’s audit committee. “We are excited […]

Menlo Park, CA – DNA2.0, the leading gene synthesis and protein engineering company, announced today that it has moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley and the Menlo Park technology corridor. DNA2.0 chose the 23,000 square foot space to accommodate the company’s rapid growth—especially in the development of gene design […]

South San Francisco, California – Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. announced today that the University of Michigan Department of Chemistry has purchased the IonFlux 16 automated patch clamp instrument. The IonFlux system will enable detailed studies of nanoparticle membrane disruption, a novel application for automated patch clamp instruments that are typically used for the characterization of ion […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Exiqon A/S (Copenhagen:EXQ – News), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the launch of additional 235 pre-validated miRCURY LNATM Universal RT microRNA qPCR assays for sensitive and specific quantification of microRNAs. With the launch of the new assays, Exiqon now offers 1731 pre-validated qPCR assays for human, […]

WOBURN, Mass. – Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., MBL, has signed a non-exclusive license with Envoy Therapeutics for access to MBL’s patented RIP-Chip technology. As part of the license agreement, MBL will receive upfront payment, annual licensing fees and potential milestone payments. Envoy Therapeutics will utilize the RIP-Chip technology for the company’s drug discovery […]

SAN DIEGO – TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink) was recently awarded a Phase I SBIR Grant of approximately $100,000 by the National Institutes of Health to develop a Hot Start approach for Ligase Chain Reaction (LCR). Hot Start LCR will employ chemically modified ligation components containing thermolabile protecting groups to eliminate common performance problems seen in […]

Santa Clara, CA – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) today launched the Affymetrix® SNP 6 Core Reagent Kit, a comprehensive workflow solution that provides pre-mixed and validated reagents for nearly every step in the SNP 6.0 assay. This convenient kit eliminates the need for mixing tedious buffers, reduces the need to order from multiple vendors, and […]

COLUMBIA, Md. – Scientists know that the most important part of mass spec analysis is the preceding separation steps. That is why Perfinity integrated their proprietary automation and column technologies into Shimadzu instrumentation, resulting in the Perfinity Workstation, a multicolumn apparatus that automates protein separations and mass spec sample preparation for more efficient LC-MS analysis. […]

TUSTIN, Calif. – Symbion Systems, Inc., a leader in providing analytical instrument control, analysis, and connectivity software, today announced the release of Symbion-DX, Version 2.5. The new software preserves all of the advanced features of earlier versions while adding several new capabilities, including a significantly expanded database functionality, instrument control, spectroscopic data processing, and methods […]