GENALICE and deCODE Genetics enter into a partnership for population wide genomic analysis

GENALICE announced today it is partnering with deCODE Genetics to facilitate the large-scale testing of its unique DNA data processing software solution, GENALICE MAP. After a first successful round of evaluating GENALICE MAP on speed and quality, both parties agreed to extend the evaluation to include up to 10,000 full human genomes. Population wide analysis [...]

Unique Flow Alarm Technology Secures SERVOTOUGH FluegasExact for Gasco Combustion Analysis

Crowborough, UK -- Servomex, the world leader in gas analysis technology, continues to win new converts to its acclaimed SERVOTOUGH FluegasExact (2700) high performance combustion gas analyzer. Gasco, the natural gas processing company of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Group responsible for processing onshore natural gas and associated gas from onshore oil production, [...]

VICAM’s Afla-V Lateral Flow Strip Test Receives USDA-GIPSA Certification

MILFORD, Mass.-- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today announced VICAM®, A Waters® Business, received USDA-GIPSA (Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration) certification for its Afla-V™ lateral flow strip test for the quantitative analysis of total aflatoxins in corn. “We are pleased to obtain USDA-GIPSA certification for the Alfa-V. This enables official USDA export laboratories and USDA-licensed grain [...]

Teledyne Technologies Appoints Jane Sherburne to Board of Directors Contacts

THOUSAND OAKS, California -- Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today the appointment of Jane C. Sherburne, former Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, to the company’s board of directors, effective August 1, 2014. The addition of Sherburne raises the number of board members to [...]

Dr. Meir Silver Joins Aspect Imaging as New Director, Pre-Clinical Research

SHOHAM, Israel -- Aspect Imaging, the world leading developer of high-performance compact permanent magnets, announced that Meir Silver, PhD has joined Aspect's management team as the new Director, Pre-clinical research. Dr. Silver, in his new role will lead Aspect Imaging's pre-clinical platform technology and commercialization initiatives and will continue to create new application opportunities upon [...]

New UF-Amino Station Provides High-Speed, Multi-Component Analysis of Amino Acids in Food & Beverage and Pharmaceutical Testing

COLUMBIA, Md. -? Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has launched the UF-Amino Station, an LC/MS amino acid analysis system developed jointly with Ajinomoto Co. Inc. Offering simultaneous multicomponent analysis, the UF-Amino Station can analyze 38 amino acids in nine minutes, drastically enhancing laboratory throughput. The UF-Amino Station achieves high-speed analysis utilizing a fast application-specific column and an [...]

Gen9 Launches New Product to Enable Pathway and Genome Building

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — — Gen9, Inc., the pioneer in the development of scalable technologies for synthesizing and assembling DNA, today announced the commercial launch of GeneByte Plus™ DNA constructs, synthesized at lengths ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 base pairs. This new capacity extends the company’s product portfolio, which also includes synthesized DNA below 3,000 base [...]

Traceable Sample Storage Supports Genomic Clinical Research

To support genomic clinical research, being undertaken to prepare the local area for personalized medicine, the Institutional Biobank of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) has invested in 2D sample storage consumables from Micronic to safeguard its valuable samples. The Institutional Biobank of Lausanne (BIL) was created to support clinical research and more specifically research in genomics. After [...]

InDevR Awarded $2.9 M to Advance Titer on Chip(R) for Pandemic Flu Vaccines

BOULDER, CO -- InDevR, a Boulder-based life science company, announced today that it has received an SBIR Phase II grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (R44AI102318) to expand application of its new vaccine potency assay to pandemic influenza vaccines. The award is approximately $1 M per year over three years. [...]

Illumina’s HiSeq X Ten Sequencing Technology to be Implemented for Population Studies

DOHA, Qatar & SAN DIEGO -- Sidra Medical and Research Center will house a first-of-its-kind facility, the High-Throughput Genomics Center, to undertake population studies and genetic sequencing for the MENA region. The facility will provide Qatar and the region access to the latest technology to help advance genetic mapping projects. The facility's early phase of [...]

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