San Diego, CA – Agena Bioscience announced today that it has entered into a commercial partnership agreement with Zhejiang Dian Diagnostics Co., Ltd (“Dian”), one of China’s largest independent medical laboratories provider. The strategic agreement will enable Dian to promote and broadly commercialize Agena’s MassARRAY® System and DNA testing applications and products throughout their network of [...]

ANTWERP, Belgium--International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy (ISPD), Booth #15--PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced a collaboration with Women & Infants Hospital (WIH) of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, to evaluate an innovative test method using the Vanadis®NIPT system, PerkinElmer’s Vanadis NIPT system is under development [...]

SMRT Sequencing Chosen for Ambitious Effort to Generate Reference Genomes for 26 Maize Lines MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced that a multi-institutional consortium of maize researchers is using the Sequel® System to create a 26-line pangenome reference collection. Led by faculty [...]

Knockout Validation of Antibodies Confirms Specificity and Ensures Reproducible Results MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), a family of brands with a unique and leading portfolio of antibody-based reagents for life science and clinical research, has been validating an extensive and growing number of antibodies using recent advances in gene editing technology. The specificity and power [...]

Pairing epigenetic profiling with T cell receptor sequencing at single-cell resolution to advance cancer, immunology and stem cell research SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation, a leader in mass cytometry and microfluidics technologies, today announced a new bimodal single‑cell application available for use on the C1™ system. Offering a new assay to measure transposase-accessible chromatin [...]

WATERFORD, Wis. -- Today, Edstrom Industries introduces the innovative Avidity Science line of pure water systems for laboratory applications.  The comprehensive range of high value products includes Type 1, 2, and 3 pure water systems, all designed to deliver superior reliability in a minimal footprint.  All models are available through Thomas Scientific, a leading laboratory equipment [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB:ISCO) ("ISCO" or "the Company"), a California-based clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel stem cell-based therapies and biomedical products, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lifeline Cell Technology (LCT), has expanded its business and manufacturing capabilities to fulfill current and forecasted demand. LCT has demonstrated stable manufacturing and [...]

Gyros Protein Technologies to develop immunoassay kits for biotherapeutic impurity analysis using Cygnus Technologies’ proprietary reagents Uppsala, Sweden and Southport, N.C. ­– Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, and Cygnus Technologies, the leading assay and services provider for the detection and characterization of impurities [...]

New Castle, Delaware, USA. – TA Instruments is pleased to announce the latest recipient of the Distinguished Young Rheologist award: Dr. Rossana Pasquino, Associate Professor at the University of Naples Fredrico II. Dr. Pasquino is recognized for her work in the rheology of complex fluids, using it as a tool to detect morphology and microscopic properties. [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass – Ultivue has announced today the public launch of its UltiMapper™ portfolio of reagents enabling the highest throughput of whole-slide, protein biomarker spatial detection and analysis in tissue, at high level of multiplexing, using instrumentation and software solutions currently found in most Immuno-Histochemistry laboratories. With UltiMapper I/O reagents, Ultivue introduces a fully optimized, [...]