BioFire Receives FDA Clearance for the FilmArray® Blood Culture Identification Panel
June 25, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY - BioFire Diagnostics, Inc., announced today the FDA clearance of its FilmArray Blood Culture Identification (BCID) Panel. To date, the 27-target panel is the most comprehensive test to be approved by the FDA. The FilmArray BCID Panel provides results from positive blood cultures, and can identify more than 100 blood pathogens known [...]
Miltenyi Biotec receives manufacturing license for therapeutic antibody MB101
June 25, 2013
TETEROW, GERMANY, — Miltenyi Biotec GmbH today announced that the German medical regulatory authorities, the Arzneimittelüberwachungsbehörde (AMÜSt) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), have granted a license for the manufacture of the clinical lead candidate, MB101, at its GMP facility in Teterow, Germany. MB101 is a proprietary humanized, monoclonal antibody directed against an undisclosed target [...]
June 25, 2013
IRVINE, Calif.,-- CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX), a molecular diagnostics company performing DNA-based testing services for developmental disorders and cancer diagnostics, today announced that its chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) test for miscarriage analysis has received conditional approval from the New York State's Department of Health for testing on patient samples from the state. With nearly 20 million [...]
Kewaunee Scientific Reports Record Sales for Year and Fourth Quarter
June 25, 2013
STATESVILLE, N.C. -- Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (NASDAQ: KEQU) today announced results for its fourth quarter and year ended April 30, 2013. Fiscal Year 2013 Results Sales for the year were a record $117,121,000, up 13.9% from sales of $102,847,000 in the prior year. Net earnings for the year were $3,044,000, or $1.17 per diluted share, [...]
June 25, 2013
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and the Newman-Lakka Institute for Personalized Cancer Care at Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, announced an intended collaboration for research and development of new methods to detect and track circulating biomarkers in blood. The collaboration will focus on [...]
June 25, 2013
Farmingdale, NY -- The Spectral Bandwidth (SBW) of a spectrophotometer is the basis of establishing its ability to resolve absorption lines separated by small differences in wavelength. If a substance that requires measurement has an absorption line at 257.4nm and there is an interfering line at 260.0 nm, one needs to establish whether the spectrophotometer [...]
June 24, 2013
Palo Alto, California -- PREMIER Biosoft, as a part of its contract software development services, has delivered OligoEvaluator™ to Sigma Life Science. Sigma Life Science is part of Sigma-Aldrich, a leading Life Science and High Technology company whose biochemical, organic chemical products, kits and services are used in scientific research. The Company operates in 35 [...]
Syntrix Biosystems Wins Final Judgment of $115 Million in Patent Case against Illumina, Inc.
June 24, 2013
AUBURN, Wash.-- Syntrix Biosystems, Inc., is pleased to announce that a federal court in Tacoma, Washington, has granted the company a final judgment of $115 million in a patent infringement case it filed against Illumina, Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology firm. The Court’s judgment was filed on June 19, 2013, and follows a $96 million [...]
June 24, 2013
Murrieta, CA, –The CHU de Québec, one of the most important healthcare institutions in the province of Québec and one of the biggest in Canada, and COPAN Diagnostics, Inc., announced today the full installation of WASPLab, the latest generation of full laboratory automation and digital microbiology system in Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus, one of the five [...]
Agilent Technologies Adds Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode to Flagship 5500 AFM System
June 24, 2013
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the availability of scanning microwave microscopy (SMM) capabilities for its premier-performance atomic force microscope, the 5500 AFM. Agilent's second-generation SMM nose cone makes this unique electrical measurement option compatible with the 5500 system. "Thanks to a modular AFM design, we can now offer our innovative SMM mode to [...]
