BILLERICA, Mass. –– RainDance Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has added a High-Precision Chromosomal Copy Number Variation (CNV) Measurement application to its industry-leading RainDrop™ Digital PCR System. The latest application provides researchers with a simple and highly accurate method of detecting low frequency chromosomal CNVs and trisomy events from circulating tumor cells or cell-free […]

Cardiff, UK –– EKF Diagnostics, the global diagnostics business, announces that EKF Molecular Diagnostics will launch four new PointMan™ DNA enrichment kits at the Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting (AMP 2013), 14-16th November, Phoenix, AZ. The new kits for the Research Use Only market, with planned diagnostic registration in Europe in 2014, offer highly […]

ITHACA, N.Y. — Rheonix, Inc., a developer of fully automated molecular testing solutions, has received a $500,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The funding adds to the $650,000 the company previously received in NSF SBIR Phase I, Phase IB and Phase II funding for this project […]

Washington, DC 10/16/13; San Diego, CA 10/21/13—Illumina had made two announcements about its future. On its third quarter conference call, the company said it is exiting the qPCR market. The company provides the Eco qPCR instrument and NuPCR assays. “This decision was due in part to our belief that sequencing delivers advantages over qPCR technology […]

CREEDMOOR, NORTH CAROLINA – AirClean® Systems microprocessor-controlled PCR workstations reduce risk of sample contamination during DNA/RNA amplification. AirClean® Systems AC600 Series PCR workstations are designed as application solutions for the manipulation and amplification of DNA and RNA. These PCR workstations are available in 24’’, 32’’, and 48’’ widths. Additional features include built-in 254 nm ultraviolet […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced five Innovation Grant recipients in the Digital PCR Applications Grant Program during the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Boston. Each will receive a QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System for research projects that demonstrated innovative applications in digital PCR. Scientists from research labs […]

SAN DIEGO – TriLink BioTechnologies (TriLink) announced that it has signed an agreement with American Cleanroom Systems (ACS) and Kelchlin Construction to build a 2,000 square foot pharmaceutical cGMP production suite within their San Diego facility. The pharmaceutical cGMP production facility will contain nine labs and be equipped to manufacture and process mRNA, long RNA, […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its GlobalFiler™ Express Kit has been approved by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for use by laboratories generating DNA profiles for inclusion in the National DNA Index System (NDIS) CODIS Database. NDIS manages the Federal CODIS forensic DNA database, which facilitates the […]

Jena/Hanover – At this year’s Biotechnica, the leading trade fair for biotechnology, which is taking place from October 8 to 10 in Hanover, Analytik Jena AG is introducing two new product lines in the areas of Biolmaging and PCR UV Workstations. At booth E40 in hall 9 and together with its subsidiaries UVP and CyBio, […]

LOS ALTOS, Calif. — Boreal Genomics, a privately held provider of technology for non-invasive genomic profiling of tumors from blood plasma of cancer patients, announced today the completion of an $18 million Series C financing round. The financing will be used to expand commercial operations in the translational research market, scale laboratory capabilities and launch […]