Neogen signs commercialization agreement with Illumina
July 7, 2015
LANSING, Mich. — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has signed an agreement to expand its relationship with Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in sequencing and genomics. Under the agreement, Illumina will market and sell arrays with Neogen’s custom SNP content, built on Illumina Infinium® BeadArray technology, to the global agrigenomics community. [...]
ASTROTECH’S 1ST DETECT AWARDED PHASE II OF NEXT GENERATION CHEMICAL DETECTION SOLUTION
July 7, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas – 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech (Nasdaq:ASTC), announced today that its breakthrough portable mass spectrometer technology has reached another milestone in the Military’s three-phase, multi-year Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD) development program. Together with Battelle, 1st Detect has officially entered the phase II test and evaluation process for its prototype Multi-Sample [...]
Pistoia Alliance Continues to Attract New Members
July 7, 2015
Wilmington, DE -- The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance of organizations that work together to lower barriers to innovation in life science R&D, has attracted a number of new members from across the industry. New additions in the last quarter include another top ten pharmaceutical company joining as a Core member, and DNAnexus and [...]
Oxford Instruments continues to develop the fastest metal alloy sorters available
July 7, 2015
Oxford Instruments introduces a new model to its range of ultra-fast metal alloy sorters. mPulse, the first ever handheld Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) metals analyser on the market is now available as two options. mPulse and mPulse+ enable users to identify a wide variety of metal alloys at the press of the trigger and [...]
July 7, 2015
SOUTH EASTON, Mass. -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" and the "Company"), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure cycling technology ("PCT")-based sample preparation solutions to the worldwide life sciences industry, today announced the development of a two-step, PCT-enhanced method for the selective differential extraction of male or female DNA [...]
Core Informatics to Accelerate Growth with $17.5 Million Venture Investment Led by Oak HC/FT
July 7, 2015
Branford and Greenwich, CT – Core Informatics, a developer of data management software used to accelerate scientific innovation, today announced it closed a $17.5 million Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT, a premier growth-equity fund focused on healthcare information and financial technology. Existing investors also participated in the funding round. “Drug discovery, molecular diagnostics, [...]
July 7, 2015
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX), BioRealm, LLC, and RUCDR Infinite Biologics today announced a broad strategic alliance. This alliance will leverage BioRealm's SmokeScreen® platform to genotype the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) biorepository of more than 50,000 samples, collected from human subjects studied in NIDA-funded research. NIDA preserves these samples in a biorepository [...]
July 7, 2015
The Science And Technology Award from the Human Proteome Organization recognizes an individual or team in private industry who played a key role in commercialization, and making widely available, a proteomics technology, product or procedure. Drs. N. Leigh Anderson, Morteza Razavi and Selena Larkin were recipients of the 2015 award, based on the commercial proliferation [...]
SNP Genotyping on Douglas Scientific® Array Tape™
July 7, 2015
The combination of TaqMan® SNP Genotyping Assays and the Douglas Scientific® Array Tape™ Platform allows the generation of millions of data points per day. By leveraging industry-leading TaqMan® Assays from Life Technologies and the disruptive Array Tape™ Platform from Douglas Scientific, researchers now have access to seamless solutions designed for high-throughput genotyping applications in plant [...]
Morpho Awarded Mexico Airports Contract for Hold Baggage Explosives Detection Systems
July 7, 2015
Morpho (Safran), through its subsidiary Morpho Detection, today announced a contract assigned to its local partner Segtec by Mexico airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR) for 14 CTX™ explosives detection systems (EDS). Morpho CTX 5800 Under terms of the contract, eight high-speed CTX 9800 DSi™ and six compact CTX 5800™ EDS will be deployed [...]

