CINCINNATI– Bioline, The PCR Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO), announces that it has entered the rapidly growing Epigenetics field, with the launch of the first kits in the new EPIK™ product range; EPIK™ Fast Quantification Kit and EPIK™ Amplification Kit. These EPIKTM Kits have been developed to meet the needs of […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.–Life Technologies today announced it has signed an agreement giving IntegenX Inc. the rights to distribute Life’s GlobalFiler Express chemistry on IntegenX’s RapidHIT™ platform. Recent recommendations from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) called for an expanded set of genetic markers to maximize international DNA database compatibility. The combination of […]

BALTIMORE, MD – via eTeligis – InstantLabs® announced today that the company has completed AOAC certifications for Food Safety Kits designed to detect the most important food pathogens — Salmonella, E. coli O157, Listeria species and Listeria monocytogenes. The AOAC’s certification of InstantLabs Food Safety Kit for E. coli O157 (including O157), was awarded on […]

Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany -– SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced that its partner QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) the global leader in sample and assay technologies, launched the first two products of a series of kits based on SYGNIS’ proprietary amplification technology QualiPhi® now renamed SensiPhi®. The […]

WILMINGTON, Mass. & MARCO ISLAND, Fla.–Kapa Biosystems, Inc., a leading supplier of reagents for the life science market, today announced the launch of products that improve performance and workflows for genomic research. The new suite of products enables researchers to apply the latest next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies more effectively to millions of low quality and […]

HATFIELD, Pa. Genisphere LLC reported today it has been granted a US patent for a novel strand-specific library preparation method for next generation sequencing based on its proven RNA amplification technology. The new patented process enables amplification and library preparation from clinically relevant RNA samples, adapts easily to a variety of sequencing instruments and systems, […]

BILLERICA, Mass — RainDance Technologies, Inc., an innovative genomics tools company ‘democratizing’ molecular testing of complex diseases, today announced that it has developed a comprehensive next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel for profiling actionable cancer mutations, enabling researchers to rapidly and cost-effectively analyze precious biopsy specimens. The ThunderBolts™ Cancer Panel targets 49 known cancer genes, including tumor […]

Ann Arbor, MI — Rubicon Genomics, Inc. today announced the launch of its PicoPLEX™ DNA-seq Kits for use with Illumina next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. PicoPLEX’s outstanding robustness and reproducibility have made it the worldwide standard for single-cell DNA amplification for microarray and PCR-based pre-implantation genetic screening and diagnosis. PicoPLEX DNA-seq now enables researchers and clinicians […]

Frederick, MD —— Akonni Biosystems, a developer of nucleic acid extraction products that are 2-fold to 5-fold faster than industry gold standards, and low-cost mid-multiplex platforms for genetic testing, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued two patents for its novel method for amplifying nucleic acids using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). […]

Warren, NJ. — Roka Bioscience announced today that its Atlas E. coli O157:H7 EG2 Detection Assay has received AOAC Performance Tested MethodsSM certification from the AOAC Research Institute (AOAC-RI). The independent laboratory study was conducted by Q Laboratories, Inc., as part of the AOAC-RI independent third-party validation process. The Atlas E. coli O157:H7 EG2 Detection […]