Emory Genetics Laboratory offers new non-invasive prenatal test

Emory Genetics Laboratory, through a partnership with Verinata Health, an Illumina company, will begin providing the verifi® prenatal test for patients desiring non-invasive prenatal testing. All pregnant women within the Emory Genetics Laboratory network determined to be high-risk by their physicians will be offered the option of the verifi prenatal test. The verifi prenatal test [...]

Agilent Technologies Launches New AssayMAP Peptide Sample-Prep Solution

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the launch of its new AssayMAP peptide sample-prep solution, which offers automated protein digestion, peptide cleanup and fractionation in preparation for mass-spectrometry analysis. As more scientists adopt LC/MS analysis for biomarker discovery, the bottleneck shifts to sample preparation. As these types of studies involve much larger numbers of [...]

Life Technologies Expands Food Testing Portfolio to Global Brewing and Beverage Industry

CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the expansion of its food safety portfolio by partnering with PIKA Weihenstephan to provide molecular testing solutions for the detection of spoilage organisms in the brewing and beverage market. Life Technologies is now the only supplier to provide both enrichment media and PCR kits designed [...]

CeMM and Haplogen make available the world’s largest collection of engineered human cell lines for biomedical discovery.

Vienna, Europe, -- and CeMM, the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, today announced that they are making available their large collection of human cell lines that are deficient for single genes, which they have been building over the past three years as part of a public The partnership, through Haplogen, [...]

SQI Diagnostics Reports Third Quarter Financial Results

TORONTO -- SQI Diagnostics Inc. (TSX-V: SQD), a life sciences and diagnostics company that develops and commercializes proprietary technologies and products for advanced microarray diagnostics, today announced its financial and operational results for the third quarter-ended June 30, 2013. Highlights of Commercial Progress During the quarter the company executed two master services agreements with two [...]

Roche introduces the first globally-available HbA1c test for diagnosing diabetes

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced the worldwide commercial availability of the Tina-quant HbA1cDx Gen.2 laboratory test, which aids healthcare professionals in diagnosing and monitoring diabetes in addition to identifying at-risk patients. Thanks to this new test, which will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2013 as part of the COBAS [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces STEM Scholarship Program

The company has established a competitive program to provide financial assistance to students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree or equivalent in a STEM field (science, technology, engineering and math) at five premier institutions globally: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of California-Berkeley; Imperial College London and Fudan University in Shanghai. These schools [...]

High-Throughput Pipette Eliminates Complex Programming Time

Oakland, California -- Current modern biotechnology applications are making use of molecular biology methods and exponentially increasing the number of high-throughput experiments being conducted in labs worldwide. METTLER TOLEDO subsidiary Rainin Instrument has addressed the needs of operators running these high-volume experiments with Liquidator 96. This bench-scale, 96-channel manual pipetting solution provides accuracy without forcing [...]

Picarro Surveyor Technology Introduced to European Market at Expogaz Paris

Santa Clara, CA – Picarro Inc., the world’s leading producer of gas measurement systems for science and industry, will unveil Picarro Surveyor at the Expogaz Exhibition Paris. The event will be held from September 10-12 and brings together many of the major players within the gas sector in Europe. Attendees in Paris can view Picarro [...]

Shimadzu’s New IRTracer-100 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer Provides High-speed, High-sensitivity Analysis for an Expanded Range of Markets and Applications

Shimadzu Corporation announces the launch of the IRTracer-100 Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrophotometer. Combining high speed, sensitivity, and resolution with enhanced expandability and easy-to-use software, the IRTracer-100 quickly and easily obtains high-quality data for samples in such fields as pharmaceuticals, foods, chemicals and electronics. Background Analysis of contaminants in or on products is very important [...]

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