RainDance Attracts Top-Tier Commercial Leadership to Accelerate Global Growth
May 15, 2013
LEXINGTON, Mass –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™Company, has announced several high-profile additions to its commercial leadership team. Industry veterans Jay Therrien, Ph.D., Roger Schaller, and Yafei Liu, Ph.D. have joined the company to further accelerate growth in the Digital PCR and Targeted Sequencing product areas. These hires complement the company’s global expansion of [...]
Agilent Technologies Introduces Verified Dissolution Components for Pharmaceutical Market
May 15, 2013
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a new series of verified dissolution components, including molded vessels as well as paddle and basket shafts. Designed to ensure compliance with mechanical qualification guidelines, these components will be available June 1 and offer verification that they conform to exact specifications. Dissolution is a technique used in the [...]
SciAps Raman Analyzers Chosen for World Cup Security
May 15, 2013
SciAps, a Woburn, MA based portable analytical instrumentation company, is pleased to announce the sale of a large number of handheld Raman spectrometer units – The ReporteR™ – to the Brazilian Federal Police to aid in World Cup security. The ReporteR unit is believed to be the smallest, lightest handheld Raman analyzer available. It meets [...]
May 15, 2013
Denver, Colorado –– A co-author of a groundbreaking study documenting reductions in patient length of stay and overall costs from implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program using Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper will share her observations at a Bruker symposium to be held during the upcoming American Society for Microbiology (ASM) General Meeting. The study, which is [...]
May 15, 2013
Mannheim, Germany. The Department of Biology at New York University has been equipped with the 100th Leica TCS SP8 X, a state-of-the-art confocal laser scanning microscope with a white light laser. The system offers complete spectral freedom for fluorescence experiments. For live cell imaging, the combination of high sensitivity and low laser power provides better [...]
May 15, 2013
Milford, Massachusetts,– SeraCare Life Sciences, a provider of high quality biological materials that help optimize diagnostic performance, reliability and repeatability across the IVD lifecycle, announced it has launched three new ACCUVERT™ seroconversion panels and one new ACCUSET™ performance panel. These product additions expand the company’s offerings that assist in vitro diagnostics manufacturers in challenging new [...]
Illumina Announces Partnerships to Automate TruSeq® and Nextera® Sample Preparation Kits
May 15, 2013
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced it is collaborating with leading providers of liquid handling robotic platforms to develop automation methods for its best-in-class TruSeq and Nextera Sample Preparation kits. Initial partners in this effort are Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Eppendorf, Hamilton Robotics, PerkinElmer, and Tecan. These partnerships, and the resulting methods, reflect [...]
BioTime Appoints Franklin Berger to Board of Directors
May 14, 2013
ALAMEDA, Calif.-- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced that Franklin M. Berger, CFA, 63, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. “We are pleased to welcome a recognized biotechnology industry expert of Franklin's caliber to BioTime's Board,” said Alfred D. Kingsley, Chairman of the Board of BioTime. “Franklin adds to our Board a [...]
PrimeTime® qPCR Assay Plates Streamlines High Throughput qPCR Analysis
May 14, 2013
CORALVILLE, IA – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has announced the launch of PrimeTime® qPCR Assay Plates, for high throughput qPCR analysis. Primers and probes for 5’-nuclease and intercalating dye assays (e.g., SYBR®) can now be directly ordered online in a 96 well plate format, eliminating the time-consuming transfer of [...]
Natera and Echevarne Collaborate to Launch New NIPT, Panorama™
May 14, 2013
Natera, a leading innovator in prenatal genetic testing, and Echevarne, a leading clinical analysis laboratory in Spain, today announced the signing of a distribution agreement for Echevarne to offer Natera’s non-invasive prenatal screening test (NIPT), Panorama™ through its facilities in Spain. Panorama was launched in March 2013 for the detection of trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), [...]

