SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Mike McMullen, senior vice president, Agilent, and president of the company’s Chemical Analysis Group (CAG), will succeed William (Bill) Sullivan as CEO on March 18, 2015. Sullivan will remain as an advisor through the end of the company’s fiscal year, Oct. 31, 2015, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has created a new services and consumables organization, the Agilent CrossLab Group, and named Mark Doak group president, effectively immediately. Doak has been senior vice president and general manager of the Services and Support Division. “Services has become a strategic business for Agilent […]

Männedorf, Switzerland -– Tecan has launched the Freedom EVO® NGS workstation to simplify next-generation sequencing (NGS) sample preparation and PCR set-up. Offering user-friendly, walkaway automation of library preparation at the touch of a button, it eliminates the need for extensive manual processing. NGS is the fastest growing application in genomics, yet many sample preparation protocols […]

WALTHAM, Mass.– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, has appointed three new members to its Scientific Advisory Board: Dr. Andrea Califano, Dr. Arnold J. Levine and Dr. Aviv Regev. Dr. Califano is the founding chairman of the department of systems biology at Columbia University, and he currently serves on […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I.– Nabsys, Inc., a life sciences company pioneering semiconductor-based tools for genomic analysis, today announced it has named Steve Lombardi as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. The firm has also appointed Mr. Lombardi to its Board of Directors. “By adding Steve’s deep life science commercialization experience, executive leadership experience and […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. & NEW YORK — Thermo Fisher Scientific and the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai today announced the selection of a suite of 16 next generation sequencing (NGS) systems and ancillary technology from the Ion Torrent portfolio for genomics research in a new, state-of-the art facility designed for studies […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– Knome, Inc. today announced that it has entered a sponsorship agreement with LabCentral to provide the knoSYS® Informatics and Genomic Interpretation System to startups operating in LabCentral’s facility in Kendall Square. LabCentral was founded in November 2013 as a first-of-its-kind shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential life-sciences and biotech […]

BOSTON & SEATTLE & HOUSTON & NEW YORK & SAN DIEGO — World-renowned cancer centers and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the formation of the Actionable Genome Consortium (AGC), an effort to recommend openly published standards for the widespread use of next-generation sequencing to guide decision-making in clinical oncology. The core remit of the AGC […]

Victoria, BC — GenoLogics today announced it has been selected by Illumina as the preferred laboratory information management system (LIMS) provider to support HiSeq X Ten sequencing system customers. Under the agreement, the companies are working closely to provide support for HiSeq X Ten whole-genome workflows and analysis pipelines, including those to be used inside […]