Neogen signs commercialization agreement with Illumina

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

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

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

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 [...]

Pressure BioSciences’ PCT Platform Results in a Promising New Method for Improved Extraction of DNA from Rape Kits and other Forensic Samples

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

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, [...]

Genotyping Begins on NIDA’s Biorepository of Over 50,000 Samples – Affymetrix, BioRealm, and RUCDR Infinite Biologics Team up to Help Study the Genetics of Addiction

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 [...]

SISCAPA Assay Technologies recognized by 2015 HUPO Science And Technology Award: will provide key technology for American Heart Association Grand Challenge Award

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™

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

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 [...]

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