October 20, 2014
SOUTH EASTON, Mass. -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company") today announced the continued expansion of its global sales outreach with a three-year, exclusive distribution agreement with Powertech Technology Company Ltd ("Powertech"), headquartered in Xiamen, China. Powertech is one of China's most recognized and prestigious distributors of analytical instruments and other equipment [...]
New Digital PCR-Based Research Solution Characterizes Hard-to-Detect Cancer Mutations
October 20, 2014
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- QuantStudio 3D Rare Mutation Analysis Solution with TaqMan assay guarantee is designed to accurately elucidate tumor heterogeneity in clinical research samples CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thermo Fisher Scientific announced today the release of the QuantStudio 3D Rare Mutation Analysis Solution, a panel of wet-lab validated assays combined with an enhanced software tool that enables [...]
ATCC Adds New Customer-driven Format to its Quality Control Standards Portfolio
October 20, 2014
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 [...]
October 20, 2014
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the SureSelect Focused Exome, a target enrichment solution that enables deep coverage of only those target regions that have been associated with disease. The latest design is 16 Mb in size and enables 98 percent of targeted regions to be covered with 20 or more [...]
Micromem Technologies Inc.: Micromem and Castrol innoVentures Sign Joint Development Agreement
October 20, 2014
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 [...]
October 20, 2014
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 [...]
KromaTiD Launches Genome Screening and Discovery Services
October 20, 2014
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 [...]
Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology Named Latest Rain Dance Center of Excellence
October 20, 2014
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 [...]
New Orbitrap-Based Mass Spectrometer Makes High-Resolution Accurate-Mass Analysis Widely Accessible
October 20, 2014
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 [...]
October 20, 2014
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 [...]

