GE Healthcare Launches its First “Next-Generation” Sequencing Assay
April 8, 2013
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-- GE Healthcare announced today that Clarient Diagnostic Services, Inc., a GE Healthcare company, will begin offering a next-generation sequencing assay focused on solid tumor targets for use in clinical trials. This assay will empower researchers to perform prospective and retrospective analysis to better understand which patients will respond to particular therapies, to [...]
April 8, 2013
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced a significant content expansion and an improved and enriched user interface for Reaxys, a unique chemistry workflow solution. With this interface and content update Reaxys now supports the entire chemistry workflow resulting in a faster and more efficient research process. [...]
Blue I Water Technologies Expanding Global Operations in China
April 7, 2013
Tel Aviv, Israel, -- China’s Guangdong Province water company is currently in the process of installing 75 water analyzing and control units supplied by global water quality control systems provider Blue I Water Technologies, further increasing Blue I’s presence in the Chinese market. The units will accurately measure a range of parameters for municipal potable [...]
Spectro Introduces Advanced Oes Technology For More Accurate Carbon Analysis In Cast Iron
April 5, 2013
KLEVE, GERMANY - SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has introduced optical emission spectrometry (OES) technology that offers greater carbon measurement accuracy and speed in cast iron production applications. The technology debuts at the Cast Expo and Metal Casting Congress, April 6-9, 2013, in St. Louis. “Our new analytical solution combines the performance of the traditional combustion analyzer [...]
April 5, 2013
WALTHAM, Mass -- At the American Association for Cancer Research 2013 Annual Meeting (Booths 1513, 1424) PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, will showcase a full suite of solutions designed to accelerate cancer research. The Company will introduce an expanded portfolio of assays, informatics [...]
Core Informatics and ChemAxon Renew Partnership
April 5, 2013
Core Informatics and ChemAxon have renewed a multi-year partnership. The Partnership, established in 2007, joins ChemAxon’s growing cheminformatics toolkit suite with Core Informatics’ web-based Laboratory Information Management System (Core LIMS) and Electronic Lab Notebook (Core ELN). The Core LIMS & ELN offer a wide array of features through a flexible component-based architecture that provides organizations [...]
April 4, 2013
SOUTH EASTON, Mass., -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company") today announced that scientists from Florida International University ("FIU") reported further advancements in their goal to develop an improved method for rape kit testing based on PBI's patented pressure cycling technology (PCT) platform. The data were presented at the recent annual scientific [...]
Expression Analysis Announces 2013 Grant Program
April 4, 2013
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C -- Expression Analysis (EA), a Quintiles company today announced a grant program that provides scientists with leading-edge products and services to advance genomics research. In the fifth year of EA’s grant program, EA and Illumina will award two grant winners fully-funded exome and RNA sequencing services along with array-based methylation analysis [...]
Analysis of complex protein-protein-interactions made easy
April 4, 2013
ChromoTek GmbH (Munich, Germany) has developed a series of highly sensitive protein-protein-interaction (PPI) assays to screen compounds that resolve the binding of two proteins within cells. The so-called fluorescent two hybrid (F2H®) technology is based on a proprietary cell line that contains a spot-like landing platform where one interaction partner binds. The interacting proteins are [...]
April 4, 2013
Promega announces the launch of GenePrint®10 System for human cell line authentication and sample identification. GenePrint 10 includes the eight loci recommended by the ANSI Standard (ASN-0002) Authentication of Human Cell Lines: Standardization of STR Profiling1, plus Amelogenin for gender identification and the highly polymorphic D21S11 locus for additional power of discrimination. Short Tandem Repeat [...]
