MADISON, Wis. – Industrial, government and academic laboratories operating on a limited budget can now quickly obtain high-quality spectroscopic data and perform complete mixture analyses using a new attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory and accompanying FT-IR spectrometer. Combining the new Thermo Scientific iD7 ATR accessory with the Thermo Scientific Nicolet iS5 FT-IR spectrometer and Thermo [...]

BOULDER, CO -- InDevR Inc., a Boulder-based biotechnology company, and Applied Microarrays, Inc., a Tempe-based contract microarray manufacturer have partnered to deliver a complete system solution for multiplexed assays. The platform includescustom protein and DNA arrays, reagents and protocols, a fluorescent scanner for slides or plates (Vidia™) and a colorimetric scanner for lower throughput applications [...]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, will launch its new SureSeq™ Solid Tumour Panel at the Association for Clinical Genetic Science (ACGS) meeting at Birmingham UK, on the 29-30th April. Fully validated on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples, the new 60-gene next generation sequencing (NGS) hybridisation-based enrichment panel offers researchers accurate and reliable solid [...]

BOSTON -- Waters® Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today launched the NuGenesis Lab Management System (www.waters.com/nugenesis), a unique and powerful alternative to a traditional Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with advances that enable deeper insight into scientific challenges, accelerated decision-making, better business results, and compliance with government regulations. The NuGenesis Lab Management System offers high impact functionality [...]

MENLO PARK, Calif.-- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) and HistoGenetics, a global leader in Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) sequence-based typing (SBT), announced today that HistoGenetics has selected the PacBio DNA Sequencing platform for its unique ability to sequence full-length HLA genes and to provide fully phased HLA alleles. HistoGenetics has purchased two PacBio RS [...]

Auckland, New Zealand -- Biomatters is the first New Zealand company to join over 170 organizations forming the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health to progress the use of sequencing data in genomic medicine and applications to human health. Biomatters will be working alongside healthcare providers, research funders and research institutions to ensure clinical data [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced the appointment of Dr Peter Hunt as Director of Computational Chemistry, as part of further growth across all areas of its business. This success is built on a growing, global customer base for Optibrium’s flagship product StarDrop™ within the pharmaceutical industry and [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the launch of VeriSeqTM PGS, a next-generation sequencing (NGS) solution developed for preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) of embryos using Illumina’s NextSeqTM 500 and MiSeq® sequencing systems. The offering brings together the industry-leading Illumina 24sure array-based platform for PGS with Illumina’s next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to offer laboratories [...]

Victoria, B.C. — GenoLogics Life Sciences Software, a leading provider of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) specifically designed for omics labs, announced today that the 3.0 release of Clarity LIMS further supports the growing needs of genomics labs working in clinical environments, including those that are HIPAA-covered entities. This version includes cloud-based features that ensure [...]

Dutch Software Company GENALICE today announced at the 14th Bio-IT World Conference & Expo that it has started discussions with Intel® about a product development as well as a product delivery partnership. On 12/12 last year, GENALICE launched its groundbreaking DNA processing software; GENALICE MAP. On a simple dual Intel® Xeon® E5 server the company [...]