Recent collaboration among scientists at Genentech, Inc., and Fluidigm Corporation demonstrated that SNP profiling performs comparably to STR profiling for cell line authentication and contamination detection. Many journals identify labor-intensive STR profiling as a requirement for publication, yet SNP profiling has proven a better alternative, offering equivalent-quality results in less time at a better price. […]

Palo Alto, Calif., USA –– Cellular Research, Inc. today announced the commercial launch of its ultrasensitive Precise™ Assays for targeted RNA-Seq experiments using single cells. Early access customers and collaborators will present data using the assays at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Conference taking place this week in Marco Island, Fla. Based […]

Danvers, Massachusetts — Beckman Coulter Genomics, provider of expert sequencing solutions for research and healthcare institutions worldwide, has added stranded, ribodepletion and globin reduction library construction options to their existing RNA-Seq services. The Illumina* TruSeq Stranded Total RNA Sample Prep Kit has been automated on Beckman Coulter instruments to enable scalability and LIMS sample tracking. […]

Bioo Scientific announced that they will be presenting data illustrating their patent-pending randomized adapter technology, which reduces ligation bias in small RNA-Seq libraries, at the 16th Annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Meeting poster session taking place February 25-28, 2015, in Marco Island, Florida. Dr. Masoud Toloue, VP of Genomic Research, will present […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass. — Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” and the “Company”) today announced it has been awarded a $1,020,969 SBIR Phase II grant (2R44HG007136) from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”). Entitled “High Pressure Sample Preparation Instrumentation for DNA Sequencing”, this grant will help fund the […]

Austin, TX — Today Bioo Scientific announced the launch of the NEXTflex™ Pre- and Post- Capture Combo Kit (Agilent SureSelectXT2 Compatible), a complete Illumina-compatible library prep solution containing all reagents required upstream and downstream of probe hybridization to prepare sequence-ready, multiplexed capture libraries compatible with all SureSelectxt2 bait sets. The NEXTflex Pre- and Post- Capture […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass. — Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” or the “Company”), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling sample preparation solutions using pressure cycling technology (“PCT”)-based instruments and consumables to the worldwide life sciences industry, today announced the receipt of the first purchase order for its new Barozyme HT48 High-throughput […]

Bioo Scientific, a leading provider of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) library preparation kits, has formed a partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to bring to market randomized adapter technology to reduce ligation bias in NGS. Bioo Scientific has incorporated this patent pending technology into its NEXTflex™ Small RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit […]

Ann Arbor, MI –– Rubicon Genomics, Inc., today reported that sales increased 28% in 2014, fueled by new product introductions and new agreements with distributors in Europe, North Africa, North America and Asia. Rubicon’s DNA library preparation products for arrays and Illumina® next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms include ThruPLEX®DNA-seq, PicoPLEXTM DNA-seq, PicoPLEX WGA kits and TransPLEX® […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Affymetrix (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced that Founder and Chairman, Stephen Fodor, Ph.D., will retire from the company’s Board of Directors effective January 30, 2015. He has served on the Board since the Company’s inception, and has been Chairman since 1999. The Board of Directors elected Jami Nachtsheimas Chairwoman of the Company’s Board […]