Basel, Roche today announced that Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet, currently General Manager of Roche Pharma in France, has been appointed Head of Roche Partnering. Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet will assume her new role on February 1, 2012, and concurrently will join Roche’s enlarged Corporate Executive Committee, reporting to Severin Schwan, CEO of the Roche Group. She will relocate to […]
SAN CARLOS, Calif. & PISCATAWAY, N.J.–NuGEN Technologies Inc., a market leader in the development of sample preparation solutions for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Genomic Profiling applications, today announced that its Encore® NGS Library Systems and Ovation® WGA Amplification Systems will be used for genetic analysis of saliva samples in a large scale, multi-year study […]
ST. PAUL, Minn., After decades of transforming the food processing industry with 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates, 3M is once again revolutionizing the industry – this time in the area of pathogen detection. Today, 3M Food Safety introduces the 3M™ Molecular Detection System: a fast, accurate and easy-to-use method of detecting dangerous pathogens, like Salmonella, E. coli […]
MANSFIELD, Mass., PrimeraDx today announced that Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, a world recognized leader in the molecular device industry, has been appointed to its Scientific Advisory Board. “High multiplex qPCR diagnostics is a key step in bringing personalized medicine to the clinic,” commented Dr. Hood. “I am delighted to help PrimeraDx take the step from […]
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Roche and Labcyte Inc. will cooperate around high-speed, miniaturized quantitative PCR (qPCR) to monitor the expression of tens to thousands of genes for therapeutic research. “Our patented acoustic dispensing eliminates the need for pipette tips and completely removes the risk of cross contamination. The simplicity of plate reformatting and cherry picking features in […]
Rochester, NY – Diffinity Genomics™, Inc. a biotechnology company focused on providing faster, simpler nucleic acid purification products for life science researchers, announced they have signed a non-exclusive global distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich® to distribute Diffinity’s PCR purification product, the Diffinity RapidTip®. The distribution agreement will help expand the availability of Diffinity’s RapidTip brand products […]
SHENZHEN, China – Roche NimbleGen, Inc. and BGI, the world’s largest genomic organization, announced that they have developed a Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) region capture technology based on NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Choice Library, a revolutionary process for the enrichment of the MHC region. This newly developed approach allows easy capture and enrichment of these highly […]
LEXINGTON, Mass. – RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that the British Columbia Cancer Agency has purchased the company’s new ThunderStorm™ System. RainDance’s ThunderStorm System is a fully-automated and walkaway high-throughput targeted sequencing solution that enables researchers to process up to 96 samples per run on a proven platform that generates higher-quality […]
Affymetrix Completes Strategic Licensing Agreement with Genisphere for Proprietary MicroRNA Reagents
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix®, Inc. announced today at the Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP) conference that they have entered into an exclusive agreement with Genisphere®, LLC, to offer the company’s proprietary FlashTag™ Biotin HSR Reagents designed for Affymetrix. The miRNA reagents provide streamlined, high-fidelity target preparation methods yielding high quality data and unmatched reproducibility […]
HATFIELD, PA – Genisphere, LLC., a developer of life science technology solutions, today announced two agreements to exclusively license the company’s RNA Target Amplification and FlashTag™ Biotin microRNA labeling technologies to Affymetrix®, Inc. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Affymetrix will utilize the two technologies to further its position as the leader in […]
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