Center for Predictive Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases Expands Biosafety Lab, Purchases Provantis SaaS

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA -– Instem, a leading provider of IT solutionsto the global early development healthcare market, announced today that The University of Louisville (UofL) Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (CPM) has purchased their Provantis® preclinical software solution as part of an expansion program. UofL funding for the expansion of its [...]

Transgenomic Announces $2.375 Million Private Placement Financing

OMAHA, Neb. -- Transgenomic, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBIO) announced today that it has raised gross proceeds of approximately $2.375 million in a private placement financing with a syndicate of new and existing institutional and other accredited investors. The Company’s common shares were priced at $3.25 per share, which represents a premium to the closing stock price [...]

NanoString Announces Publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Showing the Prosigna Assay Identifies Women With a Low Risk of Late Distant Recurrence of Breast Cancer

SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:NSTG) a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that the Journal of Clinical Oncology published an analysis of data in over 2,100 patients showing that the risk-of-recurrence (ROR) score generated by the PAM50-based Prosigna™ Breast Cancer Assay predicts the risk of late [...]

Macrogen Selects GenoLogics’ Clarity LIMS to Strengthen X-Genome and Clinical Sequencing Services

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 [...]

BioNano’s Irys System Adopted by Leading Genomics Centers for Comprehensive Detection of Human Genome Structural Variation

SAN DIEGO -- BioNano Genomics, the genome mapping company, announced today the latest genomics research centers to purchase an Irys™ System. Among them are the Salk Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) and Genoscope (The French National Sequencing Center). Before Irys, obtaining a comprehensive view of a genome was a [...]

Gen9 Expands Global Market Development Team with New Senior Appointments

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– Gen9, Inc., a pioneer in synthetic biology and leader in the development of scalable technologies for synthesizing and assembling DNA, today announced the appointment of Leda Notchey as Vice President of Marketing and Matt Marano as Senior Director of Business Development. “We are pleased to welcome Leda and Matt to the Gen9 [...]

Shimadzu Releases QuantAnalytics Open Access LCMS Software Package for Clinical Applications

Columbia, Md.-- Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces its Open Solution QuantAnalytics(TM) software package, an LC/MS/MS data tool for the pain management and clinical markets. The software increases the speed and efficiency of data processing and review by allowing users to highlight and review results that are of specific importance to clinicians. QuantAnalytics allows analysts to filter [...]

RoosterBio Selects BioLife Solutions CryoStor® to Commercialize Human Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells

BOTHELL, WA — — BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and precision thermal shipping products for cells and tissues (“BioLife” or the “Company”), announced today that Frederick, MD based RoosterBio, Inc., has adopted the Company’s CryoStor clinical grade cryopreservation freeze [...]

Laser focus on electron microscopes helps doctoral student win first fellowship

CLEMSON — A doctoral candidate will receive $20,000 as part of a new annual fellowship available to Clemson University graduate students who use electron microscopes that magnify with atomic resolution. Yunsong Zhao, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering, is the first recipient of the Hitachi High Technologies America Electron Microscopy [...]

Novel Enzyme Enables Highest NGS Accuracy for Amplicon Sequencing

SAN DIEGO -- Thermo Fisher Scientific today introduced three new innovations to enhance genetic research: a novel enzyme intended to enhance single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and insertion and deletion (indel) performance on the Ion PGM System, a panel for genetically inherited deafness, and enhancements to its popular AmpliSeq Designer website. The new offerings were unveiled [...]

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