Cepheid Reports China Installed Base Close To 1,000 GeneXpert® Systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- With the recent completion of a record shipment of 774 GeneXpert systems to a single country in one quarter, Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today applauded groundbreaking tuberculosis programs in China where more than a million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) are reported each year. Combined with systems placed previously, the second quarter placements bring [...]

New Development Kit for Spectral Sensing Applications from Ocean Optics

Dunedin, Florida, USA -– Ocean Optics has introduced a new set of spectral sensing tools for developers and others who want to deploy spectroscopy in new applications. The STS Developers Kit brings together its powerful STS spectrometer, a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, customizable software, and wireless capabilities in single package for integrating spectral sensing quickly and [...]

EXpressLO LLC Granted Second U.S. Patent for Innovative Specimen Preparation Methods

EXpressLO LLC, expert provider of focused ion beam (FIB) ex situ lift out specimen preparation solutions, has been granted patent number 8,789,826 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for specimen manipulation methods incorporating a unique specimen carrier support grid design described in U.S. Patent 8,740,209. This is the second company patent for EXpressLO LLC [...]

SAGE® Labs Licenses CRISPR/Cas9 Technology from the Broad Institute

ST. LOUIS -- SAGE Labs Inc., a leading provider of products, services and technologies in the field of genome engineering, announced today that they have licensed CRISPR/Cas9 technology from the Broad Institute. The license enables SAGE Labs to use the CRISPR/Cas9 system to engineer cell and animal models for their clients as well as distribute [...]

NanoString Technologies Introduces New Universal Junction Probe Design for Detecting Gene Fusions

SEATTLE & CHICAGO -- NanoString Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:NSTG) a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that it has expanded the capabilities of its nCounter Elements™ General Purpose Reagents (GPRs) with the addition of a universal junction probe design that offers specific detection and analysis of known fusion [...]

Cellectis sells its Swedish subsidiary, Cellectis AB, to the Japanese company Takara Bio Inc.

Paris, France — Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS.PA), a leader in the development of adoptive immunotherapies based on engineered allogeneic CART cells (UCART) announces today the sale of its subsidiary Cellectis AB to the Japanese Company Takara Bio Inc. This operation, which will be realized in the coming weeks subject to the completion of certain usual conditions, [...]

Phenomenex Launches Phenova® Certified Reference Materials for Environmental Laboratories

Torrance, CA -– Phenomenex, Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for separation sciences, announces the addition of Phenova Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) – a comprehensive line of ISO/IEC 17025- and ISO Guide 34-compliant standards for the calibration of analytical equipment and quantitation of analytical measurements for environmental testing. Sold [...]

Enzo Biochem Announces August 18, 2014 as Date of Markman Hearing in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Leading Life Sciences Companies

NEW YORK, NY -- Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE: ENZ) announced today that U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark has established August 18th as the date for a patent claim construction hearing, also called a Markman hearing, involving Enzo Life Science’s U.S. Patents Nos. 6,992,180, 7,064,197, and 8,097,405. The hearing will be held in Delaware District [...]

23andMe Scientists Receive Approximately $1.4 Million in Funding from the National Institutes of Health

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA –– 23andMe, the leading personal genetics company, has received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a grant totaling $1,367,504 for a two-year project to support the further development of 23andMe’s web-based database and research engine for genetic discovery. Specifically, the grant supports four areas of development: •Refinement of web-based surveys to [...]

KPL Expands BacTrace® Line

Milford, Massachusetts -- KPL, a SeraCare Company, today announced the addition of three new products to its growing line of BacTrace antibodies: BacTrace® Antibody Coated Latex Beads, BacTrace® STEC Antibodies, and BacTrace® Salmonella CSA-Plus Antibodies. These tools are designed for use by researchers and developers of foodborne pathogen assays. As polyclonals, the BacTrace antibodies can [...]

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