TacticID Utilized in Emerging Asia Synthetic Rice Crisis
August 5, 2015
Newark, Delaware – B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms is proud to announce that their award-winning TacticID-GP handheld spectrometer has been utilized by a Philippine federal safety agency as a critical safety tool for the identification of plastic rice – a quickly emerging [...]
DNAnexus to Deliver precisionFDA
August 5, 2015
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- DNAnexus, the leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, today announced that the company was awarded a research and development contract by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Health Informatics to build precisionFDA, an open source platform for community sharing of genomic information. precisionFDA is a new approach [...]
BioTek Readers Receive Promega DLReady™ Certification
August 5, 2015
WINOOSKI VT, USA - Several BioTek readers have just received official Promega DLReady™ certifications. Synergy™ Neo2, Cytation™ 5, Cytation 3,Synergy H1, Synergy 2 and Synergy HTX have all now met the stringent acceptance criteria. Promega’s Dual-Luciferase© Reporter System together with BioTek microplate readers demonstrate both companies’ common commitment to maximizing the success of life science [...]
August 5, 2015
LEXINGTON, MA – Quanterix Corporation, a leader in high definition diagnostics, today announced that the Journal of Clinical Microbiology has published a new study in which its Simoa (single molecule array) technology was used to develop a rapid, simple tool to allow diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) with both high analytical sensitivity and clinical [...]
RURO Announces FreezerPro® 7 Integration with Top-down 2D barcode scanners by FluidX
August 5, 2015
FREDERICK, MD -- FluidX’s new Perception™ line includes the Cabriolet top-down reader, developed to aid the transition from legacy tubes, with 2D barcode labels on the lid, to modern sample storage tubes with 2D barcode etching. The Cabriolet reader decodes 100 legacy tube 2D barcodes in 1 second, using FluidX’s IntelliCode software, which deals easily [...]
August 5, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —– Gen9, Inc., a pioneer in the development of scalable technologies for synthesizing and assembling DNA, today announced the winners of its third annual G-Prize contest. Harris Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor in Systems Biology at Columbia University Medical Center, and Industrial Microbes were selected by an independent panel of judges for their forward-thinking [...]
Illumina Accelerator Invests in Second Class of Genomics Startups from US and Europe
August 5, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced Illumina Accelerator--the world's first business accelerator focused solely on creating an innovation ecosystem for the genomics industry--has selected three new startups for its second funding cycle. Selected from a competitive pool of highly qualified applicants, the new startups from across the globe are spurring genomics innovation in [...]
Sigma-Aldrich to market and distribute LGC’s KASP genotyping assays worldwide
August 5, 2015
LGC has appointed Sigma-Aldrich Corporation as its sole, global distributor authorised to market and distribute off-the-shelf KASPTM Genotyping Assays, including more than 100,000 pre-designed assays for public domain human SNPs. LGC has also appointed Sigma-Aldrich as its non-exclusive distributor authorised to market and distribute KASPTM MasterMix reagents, custom KASPTM Laboratory Validated Assays and custom KASPTM [...]
InSphero Expands Global Availability of its Patented 3D Cell Culture Platforms
August 5, 2015
Schlieren, Switzerland -- InSphero AG, the leading supplier of easy-to-use solutions for production, culture, and assessment of more organotypic 3D cell culture models, announced today that its patented GravityPLUS™ Hanging Drop System and new GravityTRAP™ Ultra-Low Attachment (ULA) Plates are now available for purchase exclusively through PerkinElmer. InSphero will now broaden global access to its [...]
August 4, 2015
PLEASANTON, Calif.--10X Genomics today announced immediate availability of Linked-Read data generated by the GemCode™ Platform using several NIST reference samples. NIST is the federal agency developing measurements and standards under the U.S. Department of Commerce. As part of the NIST Genome in a Bottle (GIAB) Consortium, 10X Genomics is adding to the technical infrastructure enabling [...]

