BioTime Subsidiary OncoCyte Corporation Appoints William Annett to Its Board of Directors

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) and its subsidiary OncoCyte Corporation today announced that William Annett has been appointed to OncoCyte’s Board of Directors. Mr. Annett has extensive experience within the biotechnology and diagnostics industry, having held the position of Chief Executive Officer at six organizations as well as having experience in senior management [...]

Foundation Medicine Enters a Broad, Strategic Collaboration with Roche in the Field of Molecular Information in Oncology

Basel -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and Foundation Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ: FMI) announced today that they will enter into a broad strategic collaboration to further advance FMI’s market-leading position in molecular information and genomic analysis while providing Roche a unique opportunity to optimize the identification and development of novel treatment options for cancer [...]

10X Genomics Closes $55.5 Million Series B Round

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- 10X Genomics, a provider of an innovative genomics platform, today announced that it has raised $55.5 Million in its Series B financing. Foresite Capital Management led the B round and was joined by the Series A lead, Venrock, as well as new and existing investors, including Paladin Capital Group and funds managed [...]

Fluidic Analytics Secures £1.56 Million to Develop New Protein Characterisation Technology

Fluidic Analytics has developed a proprietary technology to characterise proteins in a rapid, accurate and cost-effective manner. The technology is based on research conducted at the University of Cambridge and has high-value applications including identifying markers that indicate the onset of diseases in the human body. In contrast to DNA, whose sequence provides information on [...]

Protea launches new tissue analytics software and workflow

SAN FRANCISCO -- Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. (PRGB) ("Protea") announced today that it has developed a new software platform, known as "Histology Guided Mass Spec Imaging (HG-MSI)", that enables pathologists to combine traditional microscopy and histology with high resolution mass spectrometry molecular imaging. The Company made the announcement today while presenting at the Biotech Showcase(TM) [...]

Affymetrix Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter 2014 Revenue of Approximately $93 Million and the Appointment of Merilee Raines to the Board of Directors

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Affymetrix, Inc., (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced that based on preliminary, unaudited financial data, the Company expects total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2014 to be approximately $93 million. For fiscal 2014, the Company expects total revenue of approximately $348 million, representing a 9% growth over the prior year, after adjusting for [...]

Dako, an Agilent Technologies Company, and Cell Signaling Technology announce partnership within companion diagnostics

GLOSTRUP, Denmark -- Dako, an Agilent Technologies company and a worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics, and Cell Signaling Technology (CST), a worldwide provider of antibodies, today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to supply antibodies for use in Dako-branded companion diagnostics products. "We are pleased to work with CST in the development [...]

New 50 Microliter Electronic Pipettes

INTEGRA has expanded its popular VIAFLO II electronic pipette range. Often requested by users of PCR applications, the new 50 µl models perfectly fill the gap between the 0.5-12.5 µl and 5-125 µl ranges. Now available for single-, 8-, 12- and 16-channel VIAFLO II pipettes, the new models deliver optimized precision pipetting in the volume [...]

Seahorse Bioscience Reaches 500 Scientific Paper Citations in 2014

Billerica, MA -– Seahorse Bioscience, the industry leader in metabolic analyzers and assay kits for measuring real time cell metabolism, reached its 500th citation in a scientific journal for the year 2014 in a paper published in Nature Medicine, November 24, 2014. The paper, “Chronic Enrichment of Hepatic Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondria Contact Leads to Mitochondrial Dysfunction [...]

Lockheed Martin and Illumina to Collaborate on Developing Genomics Solutions to Improve Public Health and Wellness

ROCKVILLE, Md. & SAN DIEGO -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced a new strategic alliance to collaborate on scalable and affordable genomics solutions to provide personalized health care for national populations. Genomics is the science of studying genomes or DNA. Applied to health care, analyzing a person's DNA sequence [...]

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