Bury St Edmunds, UK: Redd&Whyte, an expert supplier of liquid handling automation for drug discovery and life science research applications, today announced that it is strengthening its UK presence with the appointment of Sarah Chaudhry as its new UK sales manager. Sarah comes with specialist knowledge of life science laboratory equipment, making her well placed [...]

LEXINGTON, Ky. – With three major bioscience centers on two continents and 150 researchers globally, data sharing could easily prove to be a challenge for Alltech. However, a new technology partnership between the top ten animal health company and GoLIMS utilizes a cloud storage system and electronic laboratory notebook platform to establish a secure and [...]

SAN DIEGO, -- Organovo Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: ONVO) ("Organovo"), a creator and manufacturer of functional, three-dimensional human tissues for medical research and therapeutic applications, and ZenBio Inc., a leading provider of advanced cell-based solutions and services, are partnering to produce three-dimensional human tissues for drug discovery and advanced tissue therapies. ZenBio will provide unique, validated [...]

Madison, N.J. and San Carlos, Calif., Feb. 20, 2013 – Quest Diagnostics (NYSE:DGX), the world’s leading diagnostic information services company, and Natera, a leading innovator in prenatal genetic testing, today announced that Quest Diagnostics will offer physicians access to Panorama™, a new noninvasive prenatal test developed by Natera. Panorama uses cell-free fetal DNA in circulating [...]

A project to drive forward the understanding of key biological processes by developing new microscope technologies has received a £2m funding boost. The new technologies will allow researchers to answer previously inaccessible questions related to cell biology, cancer, learning and memory, and molecular/cellular microbiology. Led by the University of York and the Cancer Research UK [...]

Hercules, California, and Lugano, Switzerland — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, and Inpeco, a leading company in the field of laboratory automation, today announced that they have entered into a development agreement to build interfaces between Bio-Rad’s clinical diagnostics platforms [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced a dozen innovative new products for the Ion Torrent™ platform that will make sequencing faster, simpler and more accessible for scientists, driving discovery and advancing clinical research around the world. "These new products continue the pace of relentless innovation that in just two years enabled [...]

Marco Island, Florida, and Hilden, Germany,— QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today provided new insights into its next-generation sequencing (NGS) initiative, unveiling an innovative sample-to-result NGS workflow designed to enable the routine use of this breakthrough technology beyond life sciences research in areas such as clinical research and diagnostics. QIAGEN’s NGS workflow [...]

Redwood City, CA – Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of biomedical information and analysis solutions, today announced that the company will complete comprehensive curation of all human phenotype-implicated mutations in the peer-reviewed biomedical literature. The comprehensive curation of hereditary, cancer and pharmacogenetic mutations will be integrated into the Ingenuity Knowledge Base and made available in [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the SureSelect Strand-Specific RNA Library Preparation Kit for whole transcriptome and targeted RNA sequencing. The new kit enables researchers to prepare high-quality, strand-specific libraries for next-generation sequencing. The ability to gain valuable strand-specific information from RNA-sequencing experiments allows researchers to more easily discern overlapping transcripts and investigate antisense [...]