Arrayit Corporation Announces New Corporate Headquarters in Sunnyvale California

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Arrayit Corporation (otcqb:ARYC), a leading life sciences and diagnostics company, announces today that the company has signed a seven-year commercial lease for its new corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Arrayit's new corporate headquarters, located at 927 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, 94085, feature 15,000 square feet of modern industrial space including 45 parking [...]

UTAK announces release of Quality Controls for Designer Drugs “Spice” and “Bath Salts” on 40th Anniversary

Valencia, CA -- UTAK Laboratories, Inc., celebrating its 40th anniversary as the leading diagnostics manufacturer solely focused on quality controls, announced today the release of “Spice” and “Bath Salts” QC products to assist laboratories in the war on drugs. Designer synthetic drugs have a chemical structure close to that of psychoactive compounds and can mimic, [...]

Implant Sciences’ QS-B220 Explosives Trace Detector Receives “Qualified” Status for Air Cargo

WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB:IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has notified the Company that its QS-B220 Explosives Trace Detector has been granted acceptance onto the "Qualified" section of the Air Cargo Screening Technology List [...]

Mediso Maintains World-Wide Support for NanoSPECT/CT® and NanoPET/CT® Users

Seoul, Korea – At the 2013 IEEE-NSS-MIC conference, Mediso as a leading provider in preclinical imaging technology would like to inform NanoSPECT/CT® and NanoPET/CT® users about recent changes regarding the service and support of these equipment. Mediso as co-developer and sole manufacturer is committed to providing comprehensive lifetime support for NanoSPECT/CT® and NanoPET/CT® pre-clinical imagers [...]

LabCorp to Offer New FDA-Approved Companion Diagnostic for Colorectal Cancer

BURLINGTON, N.C. -- Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp®) (NYSE: LH) announced today the nationwide availability of QIAGEN’s therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit, a new FDA-approved companion diagnostic for certain colorectal cancer patients. The therascreen KRAS test is the only FDA-approved companion diagnostic for use with ERBITUX® (cetuximab), for patients with KRAS mutation-negative (wild type) [...]

Bulldog Bio Offers Tiny 3-D Imager for Live Cell Cytometry Analysis

ChromoTek GmbH has changed its partner in the USA and Canada to Bulldog Bio Inc for its entire line of affinity reagents. Bulldog Bio will now handle all sales and support of their extensive line of novel tools for protein and cell biology. Chromotek’s nanobody-based reagents have opened the door to enhancing research with GFP [...]

Sharp Edge Labs and SpectraGenetics Sign Agreement to Provide Better Assays for Studying G-Protein Coupled Receptors

Pittsburgh, PA -- Sharp Edge Labs and SpectraGenetics, two Pittsburgh-based biotechnology companies, have entered into an Assay Development Agreement that will allow the companies to offer their industry leading assays for studying the detailed function of an important class of pharmaceutical targets, the G-Protein Coupled Receptors, or GPCRs. GPCRs are the most common target of [...]

Fluxion Biosciences Announces New Publication on Mutation Detection from Circulating Tumor Cells Collected with IsoFlux System

Study published in Translational Oncology highlights growing interest in non-invasive oncology diagnostics Fluxion Biosciences announced the publication of a paper entitled “Mutational Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Using a Novel Microfluidic Collection Device and qPCR Assay”, demonstrating the capability to detect mutations in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from cancer patients. CTCs are cells that disseminate [...]

AMETEK Names James O. Davis Vice President & General Manager, Process & Analytical Instruments Division

BERWYN, Pa. -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced the appointment of James O. Davis as Vice President and General Manager of AMETEK's Process & Analytical Instruments (P&AI) Division. "I am pleased that Jim has joined AMETEK. He has extensive general management experience, especially in process control and measurement instrumentation, and we expect him to [...]

Baylor, DNAnexus, Amazon Web Services collaboration enables largest-ever cloud-based analysis of genomic data

With their participation in the completion of the largest cloud-based analysis of genome sequence data, researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center are helping to usher genomic scientists and clinicians around the world into a new era of high-level data analysis. (A “cloud” is a virtual network of remote internet servers [...]

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