QIAGEN and 10x Genomics to enter into co-marketing and co-development collaboration
February 9, 2016
Orlando, Florida, February 9, 2016 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced a collaboration with 10x Genomics to develop and promote comprehensive solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS), single-cell biology and bioinformatics. This collaboration includes: Optimizing QIAGEN’s sample technologies for use with 10x Genomics GemCode and Chromium systems. This includes QIAGEN’s MagAttract HMW [...]
OAC-RI Certifies the DuPont™ BAX® System X5 for Listeria Detection
February 9, 2016
The AOAC Research Institute (AOAC-RI) has approved a method extension of Performance Tested Method?#030502 to include the latest DuPont™ BAX® System X5 PCR Assay for Genus Listeria. This approval validates the assay as a reliable method for detecting Listeria species in frankfurters, smoked salmon, spinach and cheese and from environmental surfaces. “Listeria testing is critical [...]
Optibrium Supports Global Health through Academic and Not-for-Profit Consortium
February 9, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, UK, - Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule drug discovery and optimisation, announced it will make its StarDropTM technology available to an international consortium of academic and not-for profit organisations. Under the agreement, licensed access to StarDrop software will be provided to support drug discovery projects as part of a global health [...]
HORIBA Formulates New Mid-Long Term Management Plan “MLMAP2020”
February 9, 2016
HORIBA, Ltd. has formulated a new Mid-Long Term Management Plan, MLMAP2020, for the five-year period from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020. The company has determined to make a major advance in its growth and development, by utilizing its global business infrastructure, and to become a true partner of its customers in analysis and measurement. ? [...]
February 9, 2016
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.; LOGAN, Utah; and DURHAM, N.C. – Wasatch Photonics, Inc., a leading provider for gratings, spectrometer and optical coherence tomography instrumentation, has acquired all assets for the Process Raman Spectroscopy technology for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries from Mustard Tree Instruments. Mustard Tree Instruments is based in the Research Triangle Park in Durham, [...]
ADDvise signs agreement to acquire LabRum AB
February 8, 2016
• ADDvise Group AB (publ) ("ADDvise") has entered into an agreement to acquire LabRum AB ("LabRum") with the planned admission on March 1st, 2016 (the "Acquisition"). • The acquisition also includes the shares in the subsidiaries LabRum AS (100 percent), LabRum Klimat Oy (80 percent) and Kinda Fastighets AB (20 percent), all together ("LabRum"). • [...]
February 8, 2016
Ann Arbor, MI – Rubicon Genomics, Inc. announced a new agreement with Beckman Coulter Life Sciences for distribution of its ThruPLEX® Plasma-seq kits for research applications. ThruPLEX Plasma-seq prepares DNA next-generation sequencing (NGS) libraries for the analysis of cell-free DNA circulating in plasma. The non-exclusive agreement covers the U.S. and Canada. It follows an announcement [...]
Volpi Group partners with QIAGEN to manufacture the imaging module for the GeneReader NGS platform
February 8, 2016
SCHLIEREN, Switzerland, - The Volpi Group, a 60-year-old optical electronics firm based in Schlieren, Switzerland, announced that it is collaborating with QIAGEN Instruments AG on the manufacture of the automated fluorescence imaging module used in QIAGEN’s GeneReaderTM next-generation sequencing (NGS) instrument. The benchtop GeneReader combines with other QIAGEN NGS products to provide the first seamless, [...]
NanoCellect Closes $1.75M Series A Financing Round to Begin Production of the WOLF Cell Sorter
February 8, 2016
San Diego, CA, - The WOLF Cell Sorter enables easy-to-use cell sorting of specific cells from mixed populations. The technology uses a unique microfluidic cartridge that eliminates sample contamination between runs and increases cell viability with low pressure sorting. Plus, the WOLF Cell Sorter is aerosol-free and eliminates containment systems. In addition to having many [...]
Bio-Rad Expands its Cell Biology Portfolio with High Performance Flow Cytometer
February 8, 2016
Hercules, Calif. and Fort Collins, Colo. — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) and Propel Labs today announced that Bio-Rad has acquired a high performance analytical flow cytometer platform from Propel Labs that will enable advanced and novice users to perform basic and multi-parameter cytometry for a wide range of applications and chemistries. Bio-Rad [...]
