Amgen and Illumina Enter Agreement to Develop Oncology Companion Diagnostic Test

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Amgen Inc. to develop and commercialize a multigene, NGS-based test as a companion diagnostic for Vectibix (panitumumab), a fully human anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody therapeutic for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer approved in the US and EU. Under the terms [...]

Lupin Selects Freeslate’s CM Protégé PharmD System to Accelerate Polymorph Screening for Drug Development

Sunnyvale, CA -- Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high throughput research solutions, today announced that Lupin Limited, one of India’s top five pharmaceutical companies, has received delivery of Freeslate’s CM Protégé PharmD System for high throughput solid form screening. Lupin, headquartered in Mumbai, India, is focused on a wide range of quality, affordable generic [...]

Cole-Parmer Begins 2014 with the Release of Preferred Solutions

Vernon Hills, IL -- Look inside the new Preferred Solutions® catalog from Cole-Parmer to find hard-working items for the lab, from fluid handling to instruments to supplies. Many items are designated as Guaranteed-in-Stock (GIS)—ready to ship when you order. Preferred Solutions features a full selection of Masterflex® Peristaltic Pumps, from the L/S® model for precise [...]

PerkinElmer Introduces INconXTM Mobile Status App for Optima® ICP-OES Instruments

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that its new INconX™ Mobile Status Application for Optima® ICP-OES spectrometers is now available as a free download from the Apple® App Store. Once installed on iOS 7-enabled Apple devices, INconX will enable users to remotely monitor [...]

JPK reports on the use of the NanoTracker™ Optical Tweezers system at Norway’s NTNU Trondheim

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how the NanoTracker™ Optical Tweezers system is being applied in the study of biomacromolecules at NTNU in Trondheim. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim is Norway’s second largest university. Dr Marit Sletmoen is an [...]

The HUB Foundation for Organoid Technology and STEMCELL Technologies Sign Agreement on the Manufacturing of Cell Culture Media for Organoids

From: Tanya Samazan [mailto:tsamazan@strategic-directions.com] Agreement supports further development of organoids as next-generation drug screening platform Utrecht,- The HUB Foundation for Organoid Technology announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with STEMCELL Technologies Inc. for the manufacturing and worldwide distribution of cell culture media for growing Organoids. Organoids are mini-organs grown in tissue culture [...]

Stratos Genomics Announces Major Molecular Engineering Achievement

Seattle, Wash. – Stratos Genomics Inc. today announced it has achieved a break-through in the reduction of the SBX™ (Sequencing by Expansion™) probe library. The original commercialization path for SBX was a 256 tetramer probe library. An undisclosed $2 million Series A-5 funding closed in the fall of 2013 based on demonstrated sequence reads of [...]

Optibrium Announces a New Release of StarDrop Introducing MPO Explorer

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced the release of a new version of its StarDrop™ software platform. The latest release introduces MPO Explorer™, which provides innovative new methods to guide ‘strategic’ decisions in research programmes, by helping to identify the key properties and selection criteria with which to [...]

llumina Launches the NextSeq™ 500 Sequencing System

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the immediate availability of a transformative addition to its industry-leading next-generation sequencing portfolio with the launch of the NextSeq 500 System. The new sequencer packs high-throughput performance into an affordable desktop form factor, enabling researchers to perform the most popular sequencing applications in less than a day. [...]

Organovo Announces Collaboration with National Institutes of Health

SAN DIEGO and BETHESDA, Md. -- Organovo announced today that they are joining together with two institutes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help scientists develop more reliable tools for bringing safer, more effective treatments to patients on a faster timeline. Organovo is collaborating with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) [...]

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