Industry’s Most Cited Gene Expression Content Now Available in More Flexible, Affordable and Easier-to-Use Array Plate Formats SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announces the GeneTitan™ System, the only complete platform to automate customer workflow from target preparation through array processing and data analysis, which maximizes data reproducibility, user productivity and throughput scalability. The first […]

Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) announced today that the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has developed a catalog of structural genomic changes in almost 800 cancer cell lines using the company’s Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0. Cancer cell lines are invaluable reagents in analyzing the molecular biology of the disease as well as important tools in developing new […]

Agilent Technologies Inc., (NYSE:A) today introduced Agilent GeneSpring GX 10.0, the next generation of Agilent’s flagship gene expression bioinformatics platform. GeneSpring GX, considered the gold standard of desktop gene expression analysis, now offers tools for systems-level data interpretation and pathway analysis, enabling scientists to attain a new level of insight into the underlying mechanism of […]

Biotique Systems announced today a distribution agreement with Affymetrix Inc allowing Affymetrix to distribute XRAY directly to its customers. XRAY is an easy to use but powerful gene expression analysis system and is deployed as a Microsoft(R) Excel(R) ‘add-in’. The familiar Excel environment combined with Wizards and auto-generated methods and quality control reports allow XRAY […]

Enabling researchers to perform targeted sequencing from any region in the genome, within any research institute, at any time they want. MADISON, Wis–This spring, Roche NimbleGen announced the launch of their Sequence Capture Technology, a groundbreaking technique for enriching targeted genomic regions for high-throughput sequencing. Initially offered as a service, the Sequence Capture Technology is […]

New Protocols Will Help Accelerate Vital Gene Expression Research for Cancer and Other Complex Diseases SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX – News) today announced the launch of its 3’ IVT Express Kit, a faster and more reliable option for manual target preparation on Affymetrix’ industry-standard 3’ IVT array cartridges. The kit offers new streamlined protocols […]

M3(R) Series Enables Cost Effective Biomarker Discovery and Profiling for Academic and Drug Discovery Laboratories Last update: 9:49 a.m. EDT Sept. 3, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz., Sep 03, 2008 — HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA(TM)) system and service partner for the life sciences industry, today introduced the M3(R) Series, the industry’s […]

Companies to develop ChIP-on-Chip kits to enhance protein research BILLERICA, Mass. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL – News) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A – News) today announced they have formed a collaboration to develop innovative ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation) kits for the fast-growing epigenetics research market. The kits will be designed to improve […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader in Health Sciences, today announced an arrangement with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center that will bring PerkinElmer’s Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH) to the cancer center. aCGH is analogous to traditional karyotyping but with greater throughput, resolution and ease of use. A unique […]

Roche NimbleGen has launched the NimbleGen Gene Expression 12x135K Microarray, a new multiplex gene expression array on their recently introduced HD2 platform. The 12-plex format offers a cost-effective, high-throughput approach for whole-genome gene expression profiling: Twelve independent samples can be analyzed simultaneously on a single slide. With 135,000 long oligonucleotide probes per array, complete transcriptome […]