SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is sharing its vision for precision medicine this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genomics. The conference, held in Baltimore, Maryland, is a forum for discussing recent advances in all areas of human genetics. “As new technologies and greater understanding of […]

San Carlos, CA – NuGEN Technologies is pleased to announce that scientists and clinicians using its Ovation Target Enrichment System to prepare biologic samples for genomic analysis can now process resulting sequence data in BaseSpace–a cloud computing platform, hosted by Illumina, Inc. “NuGEN’s new Ovation Target Enrichment System Data Processing Application will allow the large […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today launched an enhanced portfolio of training courses to match the needs of the company’s global customers in terms of location, format and timeframe. Agilent University, a long-trusted source of traditional classroom and customized onsite training, now offers online courses that cover foundational, intermediate and advanced […]

Torrance, Calif. – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces Strata-X µElution 96-Well Plates, enabling solid phase extraction (SPE) from samples as small as 10µL along, with low elution volumes. These cost-effective 96-well plates conserve precious samples and reduce time requirements compared to traditional […]

Ann Arbor, MI –– Rubicon Genomics, Inc., today announced that its ThruPLEX® Plasma-seq kit that prepares DNA libraries for the analysis of cell-free DNA circulating in plasma is now automated on Beckman Coulter’s Biomek FXP Liquid Handling Workstation, a leading automated solution for laboratories worldwide. ThruPLEX Plasma-seq’s single tube workflow is easily transferred to the […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq:HTGM), a provider of instruments and reagents for molecular profiling applications, announced the availability of the HTG EdgeSeq Immuno-Oncology Assay (research use only) for digitally measuring the mRNA expression of 549 genes implicated in the host immune response to tumors. Automated on the HTG EdgeSeq system, HTG EdgeSeq […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass.– Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” and the “Company”), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure cycling technology (“PCT”)-based sample preparation solutions to the worldwide life sciences industry, today announced it has received gross proceeds of $1,100,000 from an additional closing of its $5 million Private Placement (the […]

Thorold, ON – Norgen Biotek Corp., an innovative privately held Canadian biotechnology company focusing primarily on advancing powerful tools for nucleic acids (NA) and protein purification, today announced the launch of over 15 novel kits for the fast and simple isolation of NA from blood, plasma/serum and urine, including cell-free-circulating (cfc)RNA, cfcDNA and sequential cfcDNA […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today it is making progress toward closing the planned acquisition of the Company by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The closing is now expected within the next two months. On August 11, 2015, Sigma-Aldrich and Merck announced they had obtained all necessary antitrust approvals, with the approval of […]

Austin, TX — Bioo Scientific has automated bias-reducing small RNA library prep on the Sciclone® NGS and NGSx Workstations. This protocol automates the NEXTflex™ Small RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit v2 and increases productivity by reducing the time and labor costs associated with small RNA library prep. The NEXTflex Small RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit v2 incorporates […]