VANCOUVER, - Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, a world-leader in molecular intelligence research, announced a major upgrade in its PhosphoNET KnowledgeBase (www.phosphonet.ca) for the study of cell communication systems. This open-access website now features data on over 177,000 experimentally-confirmed human phosphorylation sites (P-sites) and 789,000 additional P-sites predicted with a powerful algorithm trained with over 22,000 kinase-substrate [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) announced a co-marketing agreement today naming GenoSplice, Inc. as its preferred data analysis service provider for the new GeneChip® Human Transcriptome Array 2.0, the most comprehensive microarray available for alternative splicing detection. GenoSplice, a leader in genomic data analysis and alternative splicing, has developed a dedicated expression analysis solution, [...]

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Vista, CA -- Leica Biosystems, which through its acquisition of Aperio became the leading provider of digital pathology systems, announced today that Chinese physicians have access to U.S. healthcare organizations for real-time, expert review of pathology cases through the first scalable, secure medical cloud network through its strategic collaboration with Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences. [...]

LEXINGTON, Mass. --BioScale, Inc. a life science company that develops high-precision, sensitive protein analysis technology, today announced that data from its internal research program and collaborations with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Antibody & Protein Purification Unit and the Frank McCormick laboratory at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center were accepted for presentation and [...]

Aurora Instruments Ltd is excited to announce the launch of the new VERSA 1100 Automated Solid Phase Extraction (https://www.aurora-instr.com/solid-phase-extraction.htm) (SPE) Workstation at Pittcon 2013. This workstation removes the bottleneck of time-consuming manual extraction protocols, by completing sample preparation, column conditioning, washing and elution, analyte concentration and solvent exchange steps. Extractions can be carried out with [...]

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and BioLamina, Stockholm, Sweden today announced the signing of a research and development agreement to jointly develop new cell culture systems for various applications, including stem cell research. The collaboration will focus on assessing laminin-based in-vitro cell culture matrices offering highly physiological microenvironments for living cells. Under the terms [...]

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a next-generation viral load test to be used in the management of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HCV Test, v2.0 provides a novel dual-probe approach, for [...]

Portland, ME,– EnviroLogix Inc. has introduced the DNAble Salmonella Rapid Screening Kit, a pioneering testing solution for live poultry production. At a luncheon during the International Production and Processing Expo in Atlanta, EnviroLogix was joined by poultry industry leaders to unveil the new technology and present performance data. Kathy S. Hensley, General Laboratory Manager at [...]

SEATTLE and BALTIMORE, Md. – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that results presented at the 2013 United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology annual meeting validate the analytical reproducibility of the company’s Prosigna™ Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay. Prosigna, [...]