Wellington, New Zealand -- Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the undergraduate teaching program at Long Beach City College under the leadership of Dr Marlon Jones. Dr Marlon Jones is an Instructor of Chemistry in the Physical Science Department at [...]

Seoul, South Korea and San Francisco, USA -- The personalized medicine biotechnology company Macrogen (www.macrogen.com) has announced it has licensed Clarity LIMS from GenoLogics Life Sciences Software (www.genologics.com), a leading provider of LIMS specifically designed for omics labs, to support its whole-genome sequencing and clinical sequencing services. Clarity is GenoLogics’ laboratory information management system built [...]

Alameda, Calif. –– Singulex, Inc., the developer and leading provider of Single Molecule Counting (SMC) technology for clinical diagnostics and scientific discovery, today outlined a refinement of the Company’s commercial strategy which will expand its Clinical Lab Testing Services direct sales force throughout the United States. In conjunction with this expansion, Singulex also announced the [...]

BOSTON -- A new high-capacity, high-resolution, salt-tolerant strong anion exchange (AEX) resin offers biochromatographers superior performance, driving higher product yield, improved product purity, and greater process flexibility in either bind and elute or flow-through modes. The POROS XQ Chromatography Resin from Thermo Fisher Scientific provides optimized bead morphology and unique surface chemistry to improve anion [...]

Männedorf, Switzerland -– King’s College Hospital, London, has established a fully automated therapeutic drug monitoring protocol for clozapine using Tecan’s AC Extraction Plate™ and Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform. Lewis Couchman, Senior Clinical Scientist (Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory and Toxicology Department), explained: “We perform about 30,000 tests a year for clozapine, preparing the samples manually by [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced updates to its SurePrint miRNA Microarrays to include targets from the latest public miRNA miRBase database. The database, miRBase 21, contains 28,645 entries, including more than 15 percent in content added from miRBase 20. Agilent SurePrint miRNA Microarrays feature innovative labeling and hairpin probe [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific will fast-track 12 translational research teams’ gene-expression profiling through an innovative grant program launched today. Selected applicants will receive free next-generation RNA sequencing services to further their research in the field of cancer genomics. The new Ion Torrent Transcriptome Profiling Grant Program recognizes the broad benefits of gene-level expression [...]

FREMONT, Calif. -– WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS) announced the launch of an automated solution for Agilent’s SureSelectXT Target Enrichment workflow on the Apollo 324™ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) sample preparation system. WaferGen responded to customers’ unmet needs for a cost effective and flexible automated target capture solution. The Apollo 324™ protocols were designed to [...]

TUCSON, AZ -- CDEX Inc. (OTCQB: CDEX), a pioneering developer, manufacturer and distributor of patented, real-time chemical detection and validation technologies for the healthcare and security markets, today announced that it has secured an aggregate $430,000 line of credit from the Company's CEO, Jeffrey Brumfield, and one of CDEX's largest shareholders. Funds drawn against the [...]

Middleboro, MA - Brookfield Engineering is making viscosity measurement easier than ever with the new Model QB Quick Action Lab Stand. The spring-loaded Model QB simplifies your testing process! With the push of a button, the viscometer glides up and down, allowing for quick positioning, rapid sample change and improved laboratory efficiency. The Model QB [...]