TORONTO and NEW YORK -- Micromem Technologies Inc. (the "Company") (CSE:MRM) (OTCBB:MMTIF) through its wholly owned subsidiary Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies Inc. (MAST), is pleased to announce that it has executed a Joint Product Development Agreement ("Agreement") with Castrol innoVentures ("Castrol"). Castrol innoVentures (www.castrolinnoventures.com) is Castrol's innovation & venturing arm. It seeks to invest in [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Affymetrix (NASDAQ:AFFX) announced today that it has exclusively licensed technology from Peptide Groove LLP that enables HLA typing of human samples from genotyping data generated from a variety of assays including the company's Axiom® genotyping assays. The partners at Peptide Groove LLP developed HLA*IMP, the first HLA typing statistical imputation method [...]

Fort Collins, CO -- Based on a proprietary chromatid-specific imaging platform, dGH assays are the only imaging assays capable of determining DNA sequence, location and orientation data in a single test. With these three dimensions of high-resolution data, dGH assays are unique in their ability to detect the widest range of disease-causing genetic rearrangements, including [...]

BILLERICA, Mass. & HUNTSVILLE, Ala.––RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetics, today announced that the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is now a RainDance Center of Excellence, making it the latest premier reference site and service provider for RainDance products. HudsonAlpha is a nonprofit research institute committed to improving human [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Laboratories performing food and environmental testing, clinical research, forensic toxicology, pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical measurements, and other applied analyses can now benefit from the performance of high-resolution accurate-mass (HRAM) Orbitrap mass spectrometry using a new instrument designed for cost-per-sample-sensitive workflows. The new Thermo Scientific Q Exactive Focus LC-MS/MS is designed to make the qualitative [...]

Ipswich MA -- New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Directed Genomics together announce that they have established a partnership to develop a suite of new technologies for next generation sequencing (NGS), including target enrichment. Commenting on the announcement, James V. Ellard, CEO of NEB said, “Directed Genomics is an innovative technology development organization building simple, efficient [...]

Manassas, VA -– ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, announces the release of ATCC® Minis to support quality control (QC) testing in pharmaceutical and industrial labs, during the PDA 9th Annual Global Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology in Bethesda, MD, Booth # 304. Healthcare, personal care product, and cosmetic manufacturers are required [...]

Hawthorne, CA -- BioDiscovery, Inc. a leader in integrated software solutions for genomics data analysis for life sciences, announced today the launch of its new NxClinical software for clinical case review. Based on the company’s extensive experience in the market with its long-standing and highly regarded Nexus Copy Number software, NxClinical was created specifically for [...]

Cambridge, UK -- Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of sensitive image analysis solutions, is delighted to introduce the vibrant new T:Genius imaging system, which unlike any other imager on the market, allows high performance, walk-away imaging of gels and blots on a smartphone or tablet. What makes the new T:Genius outperform other commercial imagers is the [...]

SomaLogic, Inc., announced today that Novartis has extended its multi-year research agreement for the development and application of SomaLogic’s unique proteomics technology to Novartis’ drug discovery and development efforts. Novartis will also take an equity position in SomaLogic under the agreement extension. Under the previous collaboration agreement, scientists at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research [...]