CARLSBAD, Calif., and ALEXANDRIA, Minn.,– Life Technologies Corporation and Douglas Scientific LLC today announced they have signed a collaboration and co-marketing agreement to optimize technologies from both companies and provide seamless solutions designed for high-throughput genotyping applications. This collaboration will leverage Life’s industry-leading TaqMan® Assays and Douglas’s disruptive Array Tape™ Platform. The growing demand for […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the University of California, Davis,Agilent Technologies Inc., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today a collaboration to create a public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen genomes to help speed identification of bacteria responsible for foodborne outbreaks. The database will provide a roadmap for development […]
Promega Corporation announces the newest addition to the PowerPlex® STR Systems family, the PowerPlex® Y23 System—a rapid human identification Y-Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) assay for forensic casework, offender databasing and relationship testing. Thermal cycling time is cut roughly in half, and the system detects substantially more Y-STR loci than current systems. The multiplex system uses […]
CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its newly appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, Cristina Amorim, has been named Sustainability Executive of the Year at the Ethical Corporation’s annual Responsible Business Forum awards ceremony. She received the honor in recognition for her strategic role in Life’s emergence as a Corporate Social Responsibility […]
ROCKFORD, Ill.– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific Pierce Scholarship Program to help provide educational opportunities for future generations of scientists. “This scholarship program will help both undergraduate and graduate students who are studying a life science discipline,” said Jeff Lee, commercial director for Thermo […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y.,– Thermal Gradient, Inc., a developer of disposable ultra-fast DNA testing devices, announced today that it has initiated the manufacture of its next generation device. Robert Juncosa, the company’s Chief Technology Officer stated, “Our previous generation device was a huge success. It performs PCR, the critical step in almost all DNA tests, in less […]
LEXINGTON, Mass. AND NUREMBERG, Germany, – RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced the introduction of its new RainDrop™ Digital PCR System to the European genetics research market. Attendees of the annual European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) meeting in Nuremberg, Germany have the opportunity to see demonstrations of the system, which establishes […]
LEXINGTON, Mass. AND MUNICH, Germany,– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL) has purchased the company’s ThunderStorm™ System and consumables to process an initial 2,000 samples for use in the identification of prognostically relevant molecular mutations associated with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and other myeloid malignancies. Additionally, […]
HAMBURG, Germany, — Eppendorf AG has licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to Peqlab Biotechnologie GmbH, including US patent Nos. 6,767,512 and 7,074,367. Eppendorf utilizes the technology in its Eppendorf Mastercycler(R) pro gradient and Mastercycler nexus gradient models. Eppendorf AG, based in Hamburg, Germany, develops, produces and distributes instruments and consumables for the […]
BALTIMORE, — InstantLabs Medical Diagnostics Corporation (InstantLabs®), developer of the portable Hunter Accelerated Real-Time PCR® system, today announced that its Salmonella Species Food Safety Kit has been certified as AOAC Performance-Tested(SM) (AOAC PTM Cert. No. 031202) by the AOAC Research Institute (AOAC-RI) across four key food matrices. The kit has been certified for the identification […]
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