May 11, 2016
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - DNAnexus Inc., the global leader in genome informatics and data management, announced that the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine (SCGPM) has adopted the company’s cloud genomics platform to support data analysis and sharing for its sequencing facility. Researchers across nearly 80 laboratories now have access to SCGPM’s DNAnexus portal [...]
Roka Bioscience Announces Extended On Board Stability for all Assays on the Atlas® System
May 11, 2016
WARREN, N.J., — Roka Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKA), a molecular diagnostics company focused on providing advanced testing solutions for the detection of foodborne pathogens, announced today that the Extended On Board Stability feature is now available for the Atlas System. The new Extended on Board stability feature marks a significant advance in the flexibility, efficiency, [...]
Hanson Research Launches New HRCare 360 Support Program
May 11, 2016
Hanson Research Corporation today announced the launch of HRCare 360 Support, a comprehensive program covering all dissolution and diffusion testing systems manufactured by Hanson Research. The release comes in the same year as Hanson’s announcement of a three-year warranty for all instruments sold in 2016 in celebration of its 65th year in business. The HRCare [...]
Dako, an Agilent Technologies Company, Announces Expanded Use of PD-L1 Diagnostic Test in Europe
May 11, 2016
Dako, Agilent Pathology Solutions, a worldwide leader in partnering with pharmaceutical companies to develop immunohistochemical-based diagnostics for cancer therapy, announced an expansion of the intended use of the PD-L1 IHC 28-8 pharmDx test in Europe to include patients with melanoma cancer. Previously approved in the U.S. for non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (ns-NSCLC) and melanoma and [...]
May 10, 2016
MUNICH, Germany – This week at Analytica 2016, Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR) is showcasing new products and analytical solutions for improved performance and customer experience in pharmaceutical, industrial and applied markets. Designed to increase sensitivity, improve specificity and maximize productivity, the new Bruker products introduced at Analytica 2016 include: Applied and Pharmaceutical Markets The new SENTERRA™ [...]
Canon BioMedical expands genotyping assays supporting drug response research
May 10, 2016
MELVILLE, N.Y. - The days of giving the same pill to every patient are fading into the past. Important advances in pharmacogenetics have determined that your genetic makeup directly influences your reaction to life-saving medications. Directly involved in drug metabolism, the extremely varied cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme family can increase or decrease your drug sensitivity. [...]
May 10, 2016
BARCELONA, Spain - Forensic scientists who need to draw genetic profiles from challenging samples such as those commonly associated with crime scenes, major disasters or missing persons’ casework now have access to a new next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis system from Thermo Fisher Scientific. The Applied Biosystems Precision ID NGS System for human identification is designed [...]
JHL Biotech Opens Innovative Biosimilars Manufacturing Facility in China
May 10, 2016
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and WUHAN, CHINA – JHL Biotech (JHL), a biopharmaceutical company, opened the world’s first KUBio™ biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with single-use bioprocessing technology at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Wuhan, China today. JHL will use the KUBio manufacturing solution delivered by GE Healthcare to manufacture biosimilars and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for late–stage clinical [...]
Agilent Technologies Introduces InfinityLab Liquid Chromatography Instruments, Columns and Supplies
May 10, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif., - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) introduced InfinityLab, a product family of liquid chromatography instruments, columns and supplies. A key element of this introduction is the new Agilent 1260 Infinity II liquid chromatography system, which will bring high-end technology from Agilent's flagship 1290 Infinity II LC into the company's core platform. The [...]
Markes launches new ‘xr’ series of thermal desorption instruments
May 10, 2016
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the launch of a new family of thermal desorption instruments for GC–MS at the Analytica 2016 trade show in Munich, Germany. The new products, which form the ‘xr’ series, incorporate new powerful advances that offer major benefits to analytical laboratories running analyses of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs [...]
