DNAnexus Appoints Omar Serang as Chief Cloud Officer
August 21, 2013
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-- DNAnexus, Inc., a pioneer in cloud-based DNA data management and analysis solutions, today announced the further expansion of its senior leadership team with the appointment of Omar Serang as the company’s first Chief Cloud Officer. Serang joins DNAnexus from Amazon Web Services and will work closely with the product management and engineering [...]
Large Volume Plates for Storage / Transport Applications
August 21, 2013
Porvair Sciences offers a range of high quality, large volume microplates (5ml, 7ml and 10ml) to meet the special requirements of storage / transport applications in combinatorial chemistry, environmental and food technology markets. Produced under class 10,000 clean room conditions from virgin polypropylene, each 24-well (10ml) and 48-well (5ml and 7ml) plate contains no contaminants [...]
ChemAxon and Patcore agree distribution of Patcore products beyond Japan
August 21, 2013
Patcore’s CRAIS product series are a set of innovative cheminformatics applications covering many common processes in life science research including; compound registration, assay management, data browsing, collaborative interfaces, structure design and controlled substance compliance. CRAIS Series • Checker – Controlled substances check system to reduce your daily compliance workload. • Transformer – Generates ideas for [...]
Leica FluoScoutTM Helps Researchers Get the Most out of their Fluorescence Microscopes
August 21, 2013
Wetzlar, Germany. Leica Microsystems launched Leica FluoScoutTM, an online tool that enables users of fluorescence microscopes to determine the optimal filter cube or filter set for achieving excellent imaging results. Leica FluoScoutTM is accessed at www.leica-microsystems.com/FluoScout. Find the optimal combination of light sources, fluorophores and filter cubes To achieve excellent results in fluorescence microscopy, the [...]
August 21, 2013
bioMérieux today announced that it has been granted U.S. FDA 510(k) de novo clearance for VITEK® MS, the first clinical mass spectrometry MALDI-TOF-based system available in the U.S. for rapid identification of disease-causing bacteria and yeast. VITEK® MS is the latest addition to the VITEK® family of products, and it is the first system to [...]
August 21, 2013
Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high throughput research solutions, today announced that Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has purchased Freeslate’s Biologics Formulation System, a comprehensive solution for accelerating research in vaccine and protein formulation development. The system automates sample preparation, sample stressing, and formulation analysis, allowing for the development of stable, robust [...]
August 21, 2013
NATS Incorporated in Middletown, Connecticut has been a prime supplier of large radiation detecting and monitoring networks worldwide. NATS has expanded its product lines to provide highly specialized systems for radiation analysis of seawater. Three major categories of systems are now available from NATS in marine and seawater monitoring of radiation applications. These are Remote-Real [...]
New test system identifies 193 different yeasts and bacteria known to cause illness
August 21, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing in the U.S. of the first mass spectrometer system for automated identification of bacteria and yeasts that are known to cause serious illness in humans. The VITEK MS can identify 193 different microorganisms and can perform up to 192 different tests in a single automated series [...]
Acquisition Will Provide Added Genetic Sequencing and R&D Capability for GeneDx
August 21, 2013
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., -- BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRLI) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Edge BioSystems CLIA laboratory business and related assets ("Edge BioServ"), primarily a genetic sequencing service business located in Gaithersburg, MD. GeneDx, BRLI's wholly-owned clinical diagnostic sequencing laboratory, will acquire the Edge BioServ genetic [...]
August 21, 2013
ALAMEDA, Calif.-- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced the expansion of its senior management team with the appointment of Lesley Stolz, Ph.D. as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development. Dr. Stolz has more than 18 years of life science industry experience [...]
