SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced an agreement for global distribution of Cartagenia’s cloud-based software for copy number variation (CNV) analysis. This agreement will enable Agilent to sell usage-priced annual licenses for Cartagenia’s Bench Lab CNV module to small and medium-sized cytogenetic laboratories. The use-based licenses allow labs with limited […]

San Diego, CA — Immunotherapy is defined as the treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response. Based on the “two signal” model, most immunotherapies regulate the immune response by targeting the co-stimulatory or co-inhibitory pathways of immune activation. These T-cell co-signaling proteins include members of the CD28:B7-1, CTLA4:B7-1, BTLA:HVEM, PD-1:PDL1 and […]

San Dimas, CA — CRAIC Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microscopy solutions, joins with Laboratory Imaging, s.r.o., a leading specialist in imaging software solutions for microscopy, to introduce rIQ™ : the intelligent solution for the analysis of glass trace evidence. rIQ™, which stands for Refractive Index Quantification, is the result of a […]

SALT LAKE CITY –– Remedy Informatics, the leading provider of registry-based clinical informatics software for healthcare delivery and life sciences research, announced today that Scott C. Howard, MD, MSc, will join the company’s executive team as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr. Howard comes to Remedy from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where he was a […]

WALLDORF — SAP AG today announced a strategic collaboration with Stanford School of Medicine to research the contribution of genetics, environmental exposures, behavior and other factors to disease susceptibility using the power of the SAP HANA platform. The company also announced its participation in the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, a council of industry […]

Schlieren, Switzerland — InSphero AG today announced the launch of 3D InSight™ Human and Rat Pancreatic Microislets, further expanding the company’s catalog of organotypic 3D models produced using their patented hanging-drop production technology. The product launch follows InSphero‘s April publication of the microislets in theJournal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, characterizing their physiological properties […]

France — The General Meeting of Shareholders of bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today approved the appointment of two new independent directors, Agnès Lemarchand and Philippe Gillet. Agnès Lemarchand and Philippe Gillet were appointed to replace Georges Hibon and Michel Angé, who did not wish to renew their terms […]

Hercules, CA — — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. announces the launch the new and improved Precision Plus Protein™ Dual Color Standards, the brightest protein marker available. The strong marker persistence of the Precision Plus Protein Dual Color Standards throughout electrophoresis and western blotting, even during rigorous stripping and reprobing protocols, makes the product a more effective […]

Hudson, New York – Taconic announced that it has officially launched CRISPR gene editing technology after receiving a license under certain patents from The Broad Institute. The Broad Institute patent represents the first granted patent for use of CRISPR technology in eukaryotic cells and is based on work by Dr. Feng Zhang in a paper […]

Basel, Switzerland — Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that Biopharm R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has selected Genedata BiologicsTM as a key R&D data management and workflow-support platform. The Genedata Biologics platform will support multiple GSK Biopharm R&D groups including lead identification and screening, […]