Roche Licenses Nanopore Sequencing Technologies from Arizona State University and Columbia University for Rapid, Affordable DNA Sequencing

Roche and Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) announced today an agreement to license several technologies developed by Dr. Stuart Lindsay at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and Dr. Colin Nuckolls of the Columbia University Nanoscience Center for the development of a revolutionary DNA sequencing system. The licensed technologies include specialized approaches for DNA base [...]

Denator expands product offering to enhance 2D-gel electrophoresis analysis

Gothenburg, Sweden - Denator AB announced today the release of a new kit to ensure scientists obtain a consistent, representative picture of protein profiles when analyzing heat-stabilized tissue using standard two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2D-GE). Together with the company’s Stabilizor™ system, the new Stabilizor 2D-GE Extraction Kit enables users to heat-stabilize, homogenize and extract proteins from [...]

MediSapiens and Bayer HealthCare to develop platform for managing and analyzing genomics data

Helsinki - MediSapiens Ltd and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals have agreed to develop a platform for genomics data management and analysis in Oncology. The platform will enable Bayer to more effectively utilize genomics data in Oncology research, such utilization to be conducted in compliance with respective patients' informed consent and applicable laws and regulations. “Genomics data [...]

Dr. Alessandro Baldi Joins Protea as Vice President & General Manager

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Protea Biosciences, Group, Inc. ("Protea" or the "Company") a leading developer of new bioanalytical technology, announced today that Alessandro Baldi, Ph.D. has joined the company as Vice President and General Manager. In this position Dr. Baldi will be responsible for the management of the company's bioanalytics products and services, including the Company's [...]

Illumina Announces Novel Human Exome Content Available on Multiple BeadChip Formats

MONTREAL--Illumina, Inc. today announced the availability of novel human exome content for three new microarrays, the Infinium HumanExome, OmniExpressExome, and HumanOmni5Exome BeadChips. This content provides rapid and economical interrogation of over 250,000 variants within the protein coding regions of the human genome, enabling a range of study types aimed at uncovering functionally relevant disease associations. [...]

New Ocean Optics Measurement System for Quality Inspection of Solar Simulators

Dunedin, FL – Ocean Optics has introduced an optical measurement system for absolute irradiance measurements of solar simulators and other radiant sources. The RaySphere enables measurement of absolute irradiance (mW/cm2/nm) over different spectral ranges from the UV to the NIR (380-1700 nm). The RaySphere from Ocean Optics enables evaluation and qualification of the spectral distribution [...]

Bruker Releases New SHS-40 Automated Headspace Sampler to Complement its Gas Chromatography Product Portfolio

MUMBAI, India--At the analytica AnaCon India conference (www.analyticaindia.com) in Mumbai, India, Bruker today announced the release of its newly developed SHS-40 Automated Headspace Sampler. Headspace analysis in combination with Gas Chromatography (GC) or Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) is a powerful technique and an essential tool for analyzing potentially toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a [...]

BGI develops first monkey exome sequencing platform for biomedical research

, China -- BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, has developed the first exome sequencing platform for the monkey, based on next-generation sequencing technology and monkey exome capturing array (MECA). MECA is a proprietary exome capture array designed by BGI for capturing the entire monkey exome. The combination of this revolutionary array and BGI's high-throughput [...]

RainDance Technologies Sets New Throughput and Performance Bar in Targeted Sequencing with Launch of ThunderStorm™ System

LEXINGTON, Mass. & MONTREAL--RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced the commercial launch of its groundbreaking new ThunderStorm™ System at the 12th International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG) in Montreal, Canada. The ThunderStorm System is a fully automated high-throughput targeted sequencing solution that enables researchers to determine all variation contained in any region [...]

Advantages of PCT Highlighted in Multiple Scientific Presentations and Publications

South Easton, MA – Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBIO) (“PBI” and the “Company”) today announced that leading, independent researchers from academia, government, pharma, and the biotechnology industry have reported significant advantages when using the Company’s novel and enabling pressure cycling technology (“PCT”) platform in their critical sample preparation processes. The presentations were made at several [...]

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