Eurofins Genomics Extends Its Genomic Business Into Austria And Czech Republic

Ebersberg, Germany -- Merger of Eurofins Genomics and VBC-Biotech into Austria to further grow the business in Europe. Eurofins Genomics, the genomics division of the Eurofins Scientific Group and international market leader in genomic services, has now established its own subsidiary in Austria. Customers will be served directly through Eurofins Genomics AT GmbH located in [...]

PerkinElmer ShowCases OmicsOffice® Software at qPCR & Digital PCR Congress in London

WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it will display its innovative new OmicsOffice software at the second annual qPCR & Digital PCR Congress in London. Powered by TIBCO Spotfire®, OmicsOffice software helps scientists in the areas of genomics and proteomics [...]

Seven Bridges selected to develop a Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot for the NCI

Cambridge, MA -- Seven Bridges Genomics, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a 5.8 million dollar contract as a part of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot Initiative. The goal of the project is to increase the speed of biomedical discovery by democratizing access to the world's largest cancer genomics datasets. [...]

Magritek reports on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR system in the undergraduate teaching program at Long Beach City College

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 [...]

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 [...]

Singulex Announces Expansion of National Sales Force for Clinical Lab Business

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 [...]

New Strong Anion Exchange Resin Advances Bioseparations

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 [...]

Tecan’s AC Extraction Plate™ boosts productivity for clozapine testing at King’s College Hospital

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 [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces miRNA Microarrays Featuring Latest miRBase 21 Content

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 [...]

Profiling Grants Launched to Support New Biomarker Discovery

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 [...]

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