Eppendorf North America announces that The Genome Center at Washington University has purchased and installed 10 additional epMotion® 5075 TMX PC systems for its next-generation sequencing (NGS) sample preparation needs on the Illumina GAIIx and HiSeq platforms The epMotion 5075 TMX PC easily automates the manual steps within the NGS workflow including end repair, A-tailing, […]

SINGAPORE – US-based Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced today that it has launched a regional distribution hub in Singapore to address strong customer demand in the Asia Pacific regions of India, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Life Technologies’ new Asia […]

Today Bioo Scientific announced the launch of the NEXTflex™ DNA Sequencing Kits and NEXTflex™ DNA Barcodes, designed to provide flexibility and high-throughput capabilities in sequencing applications at a cost savings. The NEXTflex DNA Sequencing Kit features “Enhanced Adapter Ligation Technology” resulting in library preps with a larger number of unique sequencing reads. By making changes […]

HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) and Covaris Inc., Woburn, Mass., today announced a co-marketing agreement which will leverage Covaris’ acoustic DNA shearing platforms and Caliper’s automation and microfluidics technologies to develop automated workflows for next generation sequencing experiments. Caliper has developed a complete suite of solutions for library construction, sample analysis, […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. – Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE) today announced that the Ion 318 semiconductor sequencing chip will be available for early access in September of this year, complete with RNA-Seq kits and analysis software, providing up to 1Gb of data output — 100 times more than the original Ion 314 chip introduced two months […]

SAN DIEGO – Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), the leading scientific informatics software and services company, today announced at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference its entrance in the rapidly growing next generation sequencing (NGS) market with the release of the NGS Collection for Pipeline Pilot. The NGS Collection, together with Accelrys’ industry-leading Pipeline Pilot™ data pipelining software, provide […]

Redwood City, CA – Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of information and analytics solutions for life science researchers, today announced a research collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory (www.covance.com/cgl) for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis. Covance Genomics Laboratory, a leading provider of genomics solutions for the drug discovery and development industry, and Ingenuity will work together […]

DALLAS and HOUSTON – Baylor Research Institute (BRI), the research arm of Baylor Health Care System, and bioinformatics pioneer Eureka Genomics (EG) have formed a strategic alliance to achieve a better understanding of the causes of colorectal cancer, potentially leading to advancements in the disease’s prevention, management and treatment. Baylor Research Institute’s contribution to the […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. – Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE), today announced Dr. Angel Carracedo and Dr. Mark Pallen as the winners of the European Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM™) Sequencer Grants Program. Each scientist will receive an Ion PGM and because of the ubiquitous nature of the Ion Torrent sequencing technology, these scientists will be […]

ROCKVILLE, Md. – Macrogen, Inc (Seoul, Korea) announces the formation of Axeq Technologies, a US-based division with operations and offices in the US, Europe and Asia. “Axeq” is a premium brand representing a whole new experience and industry-leading standards in DNA sequencing service. Axeq Technologies is dedicated to providing premier next-generation sequencing services and support […]