Invisible Sentinel and Jackson Family Wines Partner on Diagnostic for the Wine Industry
January 6, 2014
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Invisible Sentinel Inc., a life- sciences company that develops and manufactures rapid molecular diagnostics for the food industry, announced today that it will partner with Jackson Family Wines, the family-owned winery in Sonoma County, on a first-in-class rapid diagnostic to detect Brettanomyces, a wine-spoiling yeast. The diagnostic assay, called Veriflow® BRETT, will [...]
FEDERAL COURT AWARDS ENZO BIOCHEM OVER $61 MILLION IN PATENT INFRINGEMENT DAMAGES
January 6, 2014
NEW YORK – Enzo Biochem Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) reported today that a Federal Court Judge in New Haven, CT, in connection with the favorable November 2012 jury finding of direct infringement damages of Enzo patents by Applera Corp., now Life Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:LIFE), has awarded the Company prejudgment interest of $12,428,729, bringing the total award to [...]
Gas Chromatography Options Designed to Conserve Helium, Boost Flexibility, Add Usability
January 6, 2014
SAN JOSE, Calif. -– Scientists using gas chromatography (GC)can enjoy a number of new options with the Thermo Scientific TRACE 1300 Series GC system, designed to conserve helium, permit use of multiple detectors simultaneously, automate sampling gas workflows, and perform flame photometric detection. New options for the TRACE 1300 Series GC platform include: • Instant [...]
January 6, 2014
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its cell culture (sera and media), gene modulation and magnetic beads businesses to GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), for approximately $1.06 billion. The businesses will become part [...]
GE to expand in life sciences with acquisition of strategic assets from Thermo Fisher Scientific
January 6, 2014
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – GE (NYSE:GE) and Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) announced today that they have entered into an agreement for GE Healthcare to acquire Thermo Fisher’s HyClone™ cell culture media and sera, and gene modulation and magnetic beads businesses for approximately $1.06 billion. The acquisition will allow GE to expand its offering of [...]
January 6, 2014
Shimadzu Corporation announces the release of the SPM-8000FM high resolution scanning probe microscope. Equipped with a frequency modulation (FM) detection method, and positioned in the HR-SPM (high resolution scanning probe microscope) category, the SPM-8000FM is Shimadzu's flagship model of scanning probe microscope (SPM). The SPM-8000FM is the first instrument capable of making ultra-high resolution surface [...]
SRI Establishes Metabolite Standards Synthesis Center for National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
January 6, 2014
MENLO PARK, Calif. — SRI International has received a $4.5 million contract from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to establish a Metabolite Standards Synthesis Center to prepare molecules for researchers to use in the emerging field of metabolomics. Like genomics and proteomics, which study the collective [...]
Agilent Technologies Introduces Breakthrough ICP-MS and MP-AES Platforms
January 6, 2014
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the 7900 Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) and the 4200 Microwave Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectrometer (MP-AES), the latest in a series of groundbreaking technologies featured in Agilent's portfolio of spectroscopy solutions. The 7900 ICP-MS and 4200 MP-AES are the most sophisticated, [...]
Genomic DNA Purification:100,000+ PCRs from 10 ml Blood Using ProCipitate™
January 5, 2014
MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. -- A requirement of massively parallel SNP analysis is to have high quality DNA suitable for target amplifications, and prepared economically from practical blood volumes. ProPrep™ Genomic is a blood DNA purification system based upon the unique protein binding reagent, ProCipitate™. Data is presented demonstrating as little as 1-2 ng of template [...]
January 3, 2014
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- DNAnexus, a pioneer in cloud-based solutions for large-scale DNA data management and analysis, today announced that it has closed a $15 million Series C funding led by Claremont Creek Ventures, Google Ventures, TPG Biotech, and First Round Capital. The company’s innovative Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), is experiencing rapid customer adoption and delivers a [...]

