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, and Abcam plc (AIM: ABC), a global leader in the supply of research antibodies, today announced the formation of a license and supply [...]

The DeltaVision™ OMX SR system from GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business is a compact multimode imaging platform that delivers super-resolution images of live cells, for physiologically relevant results. DeltaVision OMX SR is designed to ensure precision alignment and stability for reliable super-resolution imaging. Its stable multichannel imaging has been specifically optimized to provide high-quality images [...]

SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:NSTG) a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that the PAM50 gene signature, commercialized as the Prosigna®Breast Cancer Gene Signature Assay, has been added to the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Clinical Practice Guidelines. The updated guidelines recognize Prosigna's value to [...]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek's complete line of multi-mode microplate readers have now earned Transcreener HTS Assay certifications from BellBrook Labs. Performance of BioTek readers including the Synergy™ Neo2 and Cytation™ 5 have been confirmed as meeting validation requirements across BellBrook's supported Fluorescence Intensity, Fluorescence Polarization and TR-FRET detection modes. Synergy Neo2 is designed for [...]

Austin, Texas –– Asuragen, Inc., a global molecular diagnostics company, announced today that it had entered into a collaboration agreement with Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) that establishes a framework for the development and commercialization of sequencing-based companion diagnostics in partnership with biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Asuragen will leverage its Quantidex™ NGS product platform for development of [...]

San Diego, CA — Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in custom oligonucleotide synthesis, awarded the inaugural IDT ISO 14001 Sustainability Award to Dr Patricia Tavormina of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. Dr Tavormina's research focuses on naturally occurring methane-oxidizing bacteria, (MOB), and the role they [...]

Cambridge, Mass. -- Biodata, producer of Labguru, announces that The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) has licensed Labguru for research documentation, project management and inventory tracking. Labguru is a web app that offers flexible e-notebooks, shared inventories and intuitive messaging features for better lab documentation and communication. Traditionally, inventory databases are separated from experimental data and electronic [...]

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -– BioCision, LLC today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Devices and Radiological Health, accepted its Device Master File (MAF) submission for the ThawSTAR automated cell thawing system. “We have seen tremendous global interest for the ThawSTAR technology since launching this product nine months ago and [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. and SAN DIEGO – Edico Genome today announced that its DRAGEN™ Bio-IT Processor has been integrated into HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s next-generation sequencing workflow, thereby increasing the throughput of the sequencing facility and eliminating the need for expensive servers. A single DRAGEN processor is able to analyze the 15,000 human genomes generated by [...]

MELVILLE, N.Y. - Canon BioMedical, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., today announced the launch of the Novallele genotyping assay library and chemistry, the Company's first commercial products. The Novallele Genotyping Assays enable genetic researchers to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and small insertions and deletions in the human genome. "Canon BioMedical [...]