ANDOVER, Mass. – Morpho (Safran), through its subsidiary Morpho Detection, today announced it is approaching 900 Itemiser® 4DX explosives trace detectors (ETD) shipped to airports throughout Europe in 2015. Supplied with 100 percent delivery success to meet the September 2015 requirements of new EU legislation for enhanced explosives screening of passengers, Morpho has shipped Itemiser [...]

Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or "the Company”), the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalised medicines, announces today that its leveraged business unit has signed a programme in-licensing and option agreement with Servier, the independent French research-based pharmaceutical company [...]

HILDEN, Germany & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- DNAnexus Inc., the leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, today announced that QIAGEN, a leading global provider of Sample to Insight solutions to transform biological materials into valuable molecular insights, has integrated the DNAnexus cloud genomics platform with Ingenuity Variant Analysis, QIAGEN’s leading variant interpretation solution. [...]

Rainbow Coral Corp. (OTCBB:RBCC) partner Nano3D Biosciences (n3D) has signed a major worldwide agreement with leading biotech supplier Greiner Bio-One, continuing the innovative company’s steady march to the marketplace. This partnership paves the way for n3D and Greiner to jointly market n3D’s ground-breaking BioAssembler and Magnetic 3D Bioprinting products in key new markets. Both would [...]

RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, global, independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, announced today that it has acquired Purification Technologies Inc. (PTI), a specialty solvent company that performs high volume purification of selected high purity solvents. This acquisition will enhance VWR's growing laboratory and production chemical manufacturing portfolio to better [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is sharing its vision for precision medicine this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genomics. The conference, held in Baltimore, Maryland, is a forum for discussing recent advances in all areas of human genetics. “As new technologies and greater understanding of [...]

FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Bio-systems (Nasdaq:WGBS) announced today the commercial launch and presentation of data from the ICELL8™ Single-Cell System at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting in Baltimore, MD. In the hands of world-class early access partners globally, WaferGen's ICELL8 Single-Cell system has consistently demonstrated the power to isolate thousands of [...]

Oxford, UK – Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has launched its CE-IVD labelled Cytocell Aquarius® P16/3c/7c/17c Probe Kit, a cost-effective, ready-to-use fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) probe kit for non-invasive detection of bladder cancer — for sale in Europe. Bladder cancer is becoming increasingly prevalent, and in 2012 was reported as the [...]

Seoul, Korea - Park Systems, world-leader in atomic force microscopy (AFM) today announced a partnership agreement between their subsidiary Park Systems Japan and JEOL Ltd. to distribute Park Systems Atomic Force Microscope products in the Japanese market. The partnership between JEOL and Park Systems Japan offers customers easy access to premier scanning electron microscopy (SEM) [...]

Santa Clara, CA – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) announced today that its Axiom® high-throughput genotyping technology was instrumental in two transplantation peer-reviewed publications issued this month by an international team of surgeons and scientists. The consortium – International Genetics and Translational Research in Transplantation Network (iGeneTRAiN) – co-led by researchers from the Perelman School of [...]