San Diego — GenomeDx Biosciences today announced the launch of the Decipher® Genomics Resource Information Database (Decipher GRIDTM), a clinical genomics data sharing program that unites patient registries from leading cancer centers with GenomeDx’s full genome profiling platform. The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University is the first institution to partner with GenomeDx […]

UNION, NJ and MANASSAS, VA — The Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship (ILSE), a non-profit translational science research integrator, accelerator and incubator, and ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, announced today a collaboration to establish The ATCC Center for Translational Microbiology at ILSE (the “Center”). The focus of the Center will […]

LEXINGTON, Mass. –N-of-One, Inc., the leader in clinical interpretation for precision medicine in oncology, today announced that it has signed a business partner agreement with Affymetrix, a leading provider of DNA microarrays. Under this agreement, N-of-One will provide copy number variation (CNV) analysis interpretation for Affymetrix OncoScan assay customers. Financial terms of the agreement are […]

SUNNYVALE, CA — The ongoing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between Arrayit Corporation (ARYC) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), “Rapid and Cost Effective Detection Technologies for Noroviruses and other Foodborne Pathogens,” entitles Arrayit to an exclusive license to commercialize the technology. Much of the food consumed in the United States, including […]

LEXINGTON, Mass. -– N-of-One, Inc., the leader in clinical interpretation for precision medicine in oncology, today announced that it has signed a business partner agreement with Affymetrix, a leading provider of DNA microarrays. Under this agreement, N-of-One will provide copy number variation (CNV) analysis interpretation for Affymetrix OncoScan assay customers. Financial terms of the agreement […]

Paris — Saint-Gobain has acquired ZenPure, a company specializing in the development and manufacture of filtration products, mainly for the life sciences sector. Created in 2002, ZenPure designs custom filters manufactured in a state-of-the-art plant in Hangzhou, China. The products are marketed and sold across the globe and will bolster the range of fluid systems […]

PerkinElmer’s chemagicTM research instrumentation and kits are now available with the Covaris “truXTRAC FFPE DNA microTUBE Kit for chemagen Technology” for DNA/RNA purification powered by Adaptive Focused Acoustics® (AFA™) technology. “truXTRAC™ FFPE DNA microTUBE Kit for chemagen Technology” rapidly removes paraffin and rehydrates FFPE tissues in aqueous buffer. This preparation is optimized to work with […]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced the completion of an open-source connector linking Apple® ResearchKit™ with the Medidata Clinical Cloud® platform. This mechanism will enable life sciences companies and academic institutions to map data generated by ResearchKit apps into […]