CARLSBAD, Calif. – GenMark Diagnostics Inc. (NASDAQ:GNMK) announced today that it has dismissed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California pending since November 2010 that requested declaratory relief that it does not infringe three U.S. patents on microfluidic technology allegedly owned by Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. The suit sought Declaratory Relief that GenMark does […]

Warner Instruments is pleased to introduce the NEW CL-200 Dual Channel Bipolar Temperature Controller for automatic control of two Peltier devices. Accurately maintaining temperatures between -6° and 65°C with a single control, this model features a feedback thermistor switch that allows the user to select which thermistor is used for feedback control. Built-in protection for […]

St. Louis, MO. – Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL), today announced the addition of new genetically modified cancer cells to the Company’s range of high-quality cell lines. These human knockout and knock-in oncology cell lines, created using Sigma’s proprietary CompoZr® Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) technology which […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced plans for a new manufacturing facility in China within the Suzhou Science and Technology Town – part of the company’s strategy to aggressively expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The new facility, scheduled for completion in early […]

Mountain View, CA – Today, Cellecta, Inc. released the 3rd Module of the DECIPHER Project Pooled shRNA Library which targets an additional 5,000 human genes. This new Human Library Module adds additional cell surface, extracellular, DNA binding targets, and other genes to the well-annotated signal transduction and disease-associated genes primarily targeted with the first two […]

SINGAPORE – US-based Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced today that it has launched a regional distribution hub in Singapore to address strong customer demand in the Asia Pacific regions of India, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Life Technologies’ new Asia […]

Today Bioo Scientific announced the launch of the NEXTflex™ DNA Sequencing Kits and NEXTflex™ DNA Barcodes, designed to provide flexibility and high-throughput capabilities in sequencing applications at a cost savings. The NEXTflex DNA Sequencing Kit features “Enhanced Adapter Ligation Technology” resulting in library preps with a larger number of unique sequencing reads. By making changes […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today launched the GeneChip(R) miRNA 2.0 Array. This enhanced version of its best-in-class microRNA (miRNA) interrogation solution will support the research community’s pursuit of personalized medicine by accelerating the identification of biomarkers and gene expression signatures associated with disease. Built on the success of the first-generation miRNA Array […]

BERLIN, and BURLINGTON, Mass. – caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today that the European Patent Office has granted the last of three core patents protecting its proprietary and revolutionary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) technology. CCMS offers a novel and direct way to investigate small molecule – protein interactions resulting in a significant functional reduction of […]

Fremont, Calif. – WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTCBB:WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today announced that industry leader Dr. Timothy J. Triche, Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, has joined the Board of Directors of WaferGen. “Dr. Triche joined our Scientific Advisory Board […]