Roswell Park Cancer Institute Purchases Six Ion Torrent Sequencers

CARLSBAD, Calif.,-- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that the new Center for Personalized Medicine (CPM) at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has purchased four Ion Proton™ sequencers and two Ion Personal Genome Machine™ (PGM™) sequencers. Founded in 1898, Roswell Park Cancer Institute was one of the first cancer centers in the country to [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces HaloPlex Exome Kits and SureCall Software

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today expanded its portfolio of target-enrichment products with the introduction of HaloPlex exome kits and SureCall software. The new additions are designed to complement Agilent's Web-based SureDesign and custom HaloPlex gene panels to provide a complete, integrated workflow. "These products simplify the sequencing of clinical research samples," said Olle Ericsson, [...]

Danaher Announces Quarterly Dividend

WASHINGTON, D.C., -- Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a regular quarterly dividend of $0.025 per share payable on April 26, 2013 to holders of record on March 28, 2013.

N-of-One, Inc. Partners with Fox Chase Cancer Center to Provide Molecular Interpretation and Treatment Strategy Analysis for Patients Receiving CancerCode-45™ DNA Sequencing

WALTHAM, Mass.,— N-of-One, Inc., a leading provider of molecular interpretation and therapeutic strategies for personalized cancer care, today announced a partnership with Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, to provide molecular interpretation and treatment strategy analysis for genome sequencing and testing provided to advanced stage cancer patients through the Cancer Genome Institute at Fox Chase. [...]

Phenomenex Launches Innovative, Industry-Focused Websites

Torrance, CA - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces an entirely new "Smart Web" design, organized for the key industries the company serves. Redesigned from the ground up, the industry-specific gateways function as complete digital consultants, helping users find answers by providing customized [...]

LECO Supports New West Coast Metabolomics Center

St. Joseph, Mich.—LECO Corporation has announced its support of the West Coast Metabolomics Center, a new high-tech consortium of research and service laboratories housed within the University of California, Davis, Genome Center. As part of an agreement with LECO, the West Coast Metabolomics Center will receive access to the LECO Citius™ LC-HRT (High Resolution TOFMS) [...]

MPEG LA Continues to Expand Librassay with Addition of WARF

(DENVER, CO, US – 21 February 2013) – MPEG LA today announced that the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has become a participating patent holder in Librassay® , MPEG LA’s licensing supermarket of diagnostic and research tool patent rights for tests and assays, kits, tools and instruments for biomarker detection and analysis, diagnostics and research. [...]

US FDA Extends License of the GVK BIO Biomarker database

Hyderabad, India: GVK Biosciences (GVK BIO) today announced that it is extending its Clinical Biomarker Database (GOBIOM) license to the Biomarker Qualification Group of the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). The GOBIOM database, which has the latest and recently updated information on all the biomarkers reported in various clinical and preclinical studies, will be [...]

Natera Launches Non-Invasive Prenatal Test Panorama with Best-in-Class Sensitivity, Specificity for Detection of Fetal Chromosomal Abnormalities

SAN CARLOS, Calif., – Natera, a leading innovator in reproductive and prenatal genetic testing, today announced that the company’s non-invasive prenatal screening test, Panorama™, will launch on March 1 for the detection of trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome) and select sex chromosome abnormalities, such as monosomy X (Turner’s [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces SureTect PCR System for Food Pathogen Detection

Thermo Scientific™ SureTect™ PCR System combines fast time to result with simplicity for testing of key pathogens in food safety BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE [3])--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of SureTect PCR System that delivers test efficiencies for food safety laboratories that are testing for the [...]

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