IPSWICH, Mass. – New England Biolabs has expanded its line of reagents for sample preparation upstream of next generation sequencing to include NEBNext® Small RNA Sample Prep Set 1 for sequencing on the Illumina® platforms, and NEBNext Small RNA Sample Prep Set 3 for sequencing on LIFE’s SOLiD™ platform. These new products offer a new […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. & MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – DNAnexus, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for analyzing, visualizing, and managing next-generation sequencing data, today announced the availability of a comprehensive set of new informatics tools that enable life science researchers to efficiently analyze and manage large-scale genomic variation datasets in a cloud-based workflow. DNAnexus […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN – Promega Corporation and Fugent LLC recently signed a supply agreement that establishes Promega as a provider of the leading transfection tool FuGENE® 6. This agreement ensures that researchers will continue to have access to the FuGENE® transfection reagents they have always used in their daily research. This expands on the existing Promega/Fugent […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Agilent Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: A) today introduced SureSelect RNA Capture Kits, the first commercial RNA target enrichment system enabling geneticists to focus on specific genomic loci or transcripts of research interest. The RNA capture kits make it possible to precisely measure expression levels of genes of interest and detect allelic-specific expression, […]

RainDance Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of microdroplet-based single molecule and single cell analysis solutions, today announced the availability of the DeepSeq™ FFPE Solution, an end-to-end workflow for the ultra-deep targeted sequencing of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) and fresh frozen tissue samples. The company is launching the DeepSeq Solution this week at the 12th annual Advances […]

WALDBRONN, Germany, and BEVERLY, Mass., — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Sage Science Inc. today announced that they have signed a comarketing agreement involving Agilent’s 2100 Bioanalyzer, used for the detection and quantification of nucleic acids, and Sage’s Pippin Prep DNA size-selection system. The agreement between Sage and Agilent includes the copromotion of the […]

ST. LOUIS – Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced that its SAGE Labs initiative has partnered with Cofactor Genomics in an effort to sequence genomes for six of the most widely used strains of rat. As part of the agreement, Cofactor Genomics plans to generate […]

Victoria, BC, Canada – GenoLogics, a leading provider of laboratory information management system (LIMS) software specifically designed for complex genomics labs, today announced it has signed a worldwide co-selling agreement with Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. Under terms of the deal, Illumina will market a version of the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it was awarded a U.S. patent for the process used in on-array capture of genomic elements for downstream analysis, including next- generation sequencing. The patent was issued for a method that uses oligonucleotide probes attached to a solid support as a sequence-specific affinity […]

ROCKVILLE, Md. – OriGene Technologies, Inc., a gene-centric life sciences company, releases the first commercially available full length human MTOR protein with superior biological activity. MTOR is a serine/threonine protein kinase which regulates cell growth, cell proliferation, cell motility, cell survival, protein synthesis, and transcription. Purified, functional MTOR is highly desirable in high throughput functional […]