WHAT: PerkinElmer Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of its Adulterant Screen™ software. This automated solution can help food industry professionals evaluate the integrity of food ingredients to guard against existing and potential food adulteration threats. Adulterant Screen software, when paired [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today launched two new products—the HaloPlexHS target enrichment system and ClearSeq Comprehensive Cancer research panel—designed to improve the speed and accuracy of clinical cancer research. Both products will enable researchers to rapidly and accurately identify disease-associated variants in tumor samples—information that can be vital to research [...]

Palo Alto, Calif., USA –– Cellular Research, Inc. today announced the commercial launch of its ultrasensitive Precise™ Assays for targeted RNA-Seq experiments using single cells. Early access customers and collaborators will present data using the assays at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Conference taking place this week in Marco Island, Fla. Based [...]

ALAMEDA, Calif. -? LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (LifeMap), a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today a commercial partnership agreement with Toldot Genetics, LTD (Toldot), a subsidiary of BATM Advanced Communications, Ltd. LifeMap’s GeneCards Suite, comprised of the company’s integrated biomedical knowledgebase and premium analysis tools, will optimize Toldot’s next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis capabilities by [...]

Baden, Switzerland -— DECTRIS Ltd. has announced its new generation of MYTHEN2 R high-performance microstrip X-ray detectors for OEM use in laboratory and portable diffractometers. The new MYTHEN2 R series feature full-range Ti to Ag detection, supreme signal-to-noise ratios, a new control system, the ability to be combined into larger systems, and new compact size [...]

Danbury, Conn. -- Adam Equipment, a leading provider of precision weighing equipment, is now shipping its large-pan Nimbusbalances in North and Latin America. The high-capacity Nimbus precision balances offer easy operation, rugged construction and a generous 15.7x11.8”/400×300mm stainless steel pan for weighing bulky samples. High-capacity Nimbus precision balances provide a readability of 0.1g in three [...]

Recent collaboration among scientists at Genentech, Inc., and Fluidigm Corporation demonstrated that SNP profiling performs comparably to STR profiling for cell line authentication and contamination detection. Many journals identify labor-intensive STR profiling as a requirement for publication, yet SNP profiling has proven a better alternative, offering equivalent-quality results in less time at a better price. [...]

PLEASANTON, Calif. & MARCO ISLAND, Fla.--10X Genomics today launched the GemCode™ Platform at the 16th annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT). The GemCode Platform is a unique molecular barcoding and analysis platform that consists of instrumentation, reagents and software, which delivers long range information, including haplotype phasing, structural variation and de novo assembly. [...]

Bioo Scientific announced that they will be presenting data illustrating their patent-pending randomized adapter technology, which reduces ligation bias in small RNA-Seq libraries, at the 16th Annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Meeting poster session taking place February 25-28, 2015, in Marco Island, Florida. Dr. Masoud Toloue, VP of Genomic Research, will present [...]

MARCO ISLAND, Florida, and REDWOOD CITY, California -– A coalition of 13 leading life science and diagnostics organizations today announced the formation of the Allele Frequency Community, a landmark initiative that is creating an extensive, high-quality and ethnically diverse collection of human genomes to address a key challenge in interpreting sequencing data for research and [...]