December 4, 2013
SAN DIEGO, Calif. and ST. OUEN L'AUMONE, France -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative testing and genetic analysis solutions, announced that Laboratoire Cerba has launched its validated noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) to health care providers and their patients in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and portions of the Middle East and Africa. [...]
Custom Made Ultra High Vacuum Cuvettes
December 4, 2013
Farmingdale, NY -- NSG Precision Cells introduced a Ultra High Vacuum Cuvette in 2013, significantly bolstering their product line of spectrophotometer and fluorometer cuvettes. With this new product offering, NSG Precision Cells has established itself as the premier lab equipment manufacturer in the American Northeast. Ultra-high vacuum cuvettes (UHV) are precision engineered to reduce refraction [...]
AgileBio releases a new version of LabCollector’s Electronic Lab Notebook: ELN v2.2
December 4, 2013
Paris, France -- AgileBio, an IT solutions specialist providing web-based software for life sciences, announces the release of a new version of its Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), a complimentary application for its LIMS, LabCollector. ELN is an efficient and simple notebook to store, organize, find and share all researchers laboratory experiments in a variety of [...]
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Adopts DNASTAR Lasergene Software
December 4, 2013
MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR today announced that the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute entered into a multi-year software license agreement with DNASTAR for the use of Lasergene software as its primary sequence assembly and analysis software platform for researchers within its organization. A spokesperson for the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute said, “The Sanger Institute is one [...]
December 4, 2013
HOLLISTON, Mass. -- Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research, today announced the realignment of its global operations to create organizational efficiencies and better position the Company for growth. As part of the realignment, Harvard Bioscience will reduce its global workforce [...]
GE Healthcare scientist paired with Welsh MP to share insights on science and policy-making
December 4, 2013
CARDIFF, UK –– Dr. Nina Moran from GE Healthcare Life Sciences will be swapping a lab coat for legislation, when she visits Mr. Roger Williams MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, at the House of Commons for a “Week in Westminster” as part of a unique ‘pairing’ scheme run by the Royal Society – the UK’s [...]
BioTek Highlights Improved Workflows With Their Latest Microplate Instruments at ASCB2013
December 4, 2013
WINOOSKI VT, USA — New microplate instrumentation from BioTek improves workflow efficiencies in detection, liquid handling and automation of these processes. BioTek will be highlighting four new products in Booth #1301 at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, to be held December 14-18 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The patent pending Cytation™ 3 Cell [...]
December 3, 2013
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), provider of the PacBio® RS II DNA Sequencing System, today announced it is collaborating with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Public Health England to complete the sequences of 3,000 bacterial genome strains from PHE's National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC). Sequencing will be performed [...]
Tute Genomics appoints Dr. Mingfu Zhu as Director of Bioinformatics
December 3, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY -- Dr. Mingfu Zhu, previously of the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation, has announced his new position with Tute Genomics as Director of Bioinformatics. Dr. Zhu's extensive work with structural variation analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data from whole genomes places Tute ahead of other analytic engines in applying structural variant [...]
December 3, 2013
Mississauga, ON -- Therapure Biopharma Inc. and Upfront Chromatography A/S have announced today that they have entered into an agreement for Therapure to acquire the assets and associated business related to human plasma fractionation from Upfront. Upfront has developed over the last 15 years, a proprietary protein purification technology, based on Expanded Bed Adsorption (EBA) [...]

