Illumina Announces Recipients of Agricultural Greater Good Initiative Grants
January 9, 2014
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced two new recipients of its Agricultural Greater Good Initiative Grants. The recipients, Iowa State University and University of California at Riverside, will apply Illumina’s array genotyping and software solutions to further their research into sustainable crop and livestock breeding practices. The grants are designed to help [...]
llumina to Provide Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies to Quest Diagnostics
January 9, 2014
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced it has entered into a multi-year licensing agreement with Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, related to the use of Illumina’s next-generation sequencing technology for clinical laboratory testing. Among the terms, Quest will have broad rights to use Illumina’s sequencing and [...]
Exiqon Announces 2014 Grant Program for microRNA, long non-coding RNA or mRNA research
January 9, 2014
Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen: "EXQ") today announced the launch of its 2014 global research grant program, open to researchers from academic and non-profit institutions. "Exiqon aims to support our customers around the world in their everyday laboratory work and we are proud to offer excellent products for the analysis of any RNA in any [...]
January 9, 2014
CARLSBAD, Calif.-- Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE) has completed a multi-year license and supply agreement with Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, that gives Quest rights to develop molecular tests on the Ion Torrent™ next-generation sequencing platform. Under the agreement, Quest may use the platform and related consumables to independently [...]
January 9, 2014
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.-- MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today announced the grand opening of a vehicle system engineering laboratory in collaboration with Chery Automobile Co. Ltd. in Wuhu, China. The first MTS joint laboratory with a domestic Chinese automotive OEM, the Chery-MTS lab is [...]
January 9, 2014
Microsaic Systems is pleased to announce the launch of the MiDas™ interface module which allows simple connectivity of its miniaturised mass detector, the 4000 MiD®, for on line and off line analysis. The MiDas compact integrated interface unit offers automated sampling, dilution and injection for direct mass spectrometry (MS) analysis at the lab bench or [...]
January 9, 2014
Eurofins Scientific (EUFI.PA), the world leader in providing analytical support to the pharmaceutical industry, announces the signing of an agreement to acquire the assets of the Discovery and Development Solutions (DDS) business of Merck Millipore (EMD Millipore in the United States and Canada), the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. DDS is a [...]
PerkinElmer Introduces Multi-Species Integrated Optical and X-ray Imaging System
January 9, 2014
PerkinElmer introduces the IVIS® Lumina XRMS Series III multimodal imaging system offering industry-leading bioluminescence and low dose X-ray imaging, along with novel ultra-sensitive, two-dimensional in vivo fluorescence imaging technologies. The Lumina XRMS allows researchers from academic to commercial institutions the flexibility to perform quantitative and multimodal pre-clinical imaging with exceptional sensitivity on mice and rats. [...]
Advantest’s Terahertz Spectroscopic/Imaging System TAS7500 Adopted by Seoul National University
January 8, 2014
TOKYO, Japan –– Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE) today announced that its terahertz spectroscopic imaging system TAS7500, which utilizes Advantest’s THz wave technology, has been adopted by Seoul National University. Advantest expects that the adoption of this system by Seoul National University will accelerate the spread of terahertz analysis [...]
Supplying a Research Lab with Advanced Equipment Has Never Been Easier
January 8, 2014
HOLLISTON, Mass. -- Humans have always organized things. Something in our brains tells us to break information into smaller chunks, making it easier to understand. We separate animals into different species, books into genres and clothing into styles. In this era of endless medical specialization, our aptitude for grouping is more important than ever. For [...]

