QIAGEN Completes Second U.S.Submission for Companion Diagnostic to Guide Treatment Decisions in Colorectal Cancer

GERMANTOWN, Maryland and HILDEN, Germany - QIAGEN today announced it has completed its second U.S. submission of the therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit for use as a companion diagnostic paired with Erbitux® (cetuximab), a leading drug for treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Erbitux is marketed in the United States by Bristol-Myers Squibb [...]

PREMIER Biosoft Completes Acquisition of Redasoft

Palo Alto, California – PREMIER Biosoft, a leading provider of software solutions for life science research, today announced the complete acquisition of Redasoft, a privately held company incorporated in California, USA and marketer of Visual Cloning, a popular sequence analysis software. PREMIER Biosoft expects this strategic acquisition to accelerate its growth in life science software [...]

Firefly BioWorks, Inc. Announces the Award of a $2M Grant from the National Institutes of Health for microRNA Profiling in Cancer Diagnostics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Firefly BioWorks, Inc., a manufacturer of universally compatible multiplex assays, announced today it was awarded a $2M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute for microRNA profiling. MicroRNAs are an emerging class of biomarkers that are proving to be important indicators for early diagnosis of cancer and other [...]

Analytik Jena AG launches new HR-CS AAS instrument

Jena – Analytik Jena AG, a leading manufacturer of analysis measuring technology, today launched its new atomic absorption spectrometer contrAA® 600. The device complements the contrAA® product family and optimizes the advantages of high resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrometry (HR-CS AAS) specifically for the graphite furnace technique. "With the development of the contrAA® 600 [...]

Easy and Thorough STR Profiling Service from ATCC

ATCC (American Type Culture Collection), the world’s largest and most diverse bioresource center, provides an STR Profiling Service for human cell line authentication. With over 20 years of experience performing short tandem repeat profiling (STR profiling) on its extensive biorepository – more than any other provider – ATCC offers investigators the easiest and surest solution [...]

LGC Genomics gains Illumina CSPro certification for sequencing

LGC Genomics is pleased to announce that it has successfully gained Illumina CSPro™ certification for sequencing, gaining entry to an elite global group of Illumina genomics service providers. Illumina Inc., a San Diego-based company, provides leading-edge genetic analysis tools to genomics centres worldwide. Illumina CSPro is the collaborative service provider partnership dedicated to ensure the [...]

American Peptide Company is Now Creating Peptides to be Used in Sandia BioTech’s Innovative Split Green Fluorescent Protein (sGFP) Detection System

Sunnyvale, CA - American Peptide Company recently began a collaboration with Sandia Biotech to synthesize peptides to be used in their Split Green Fluorescent Protein (sGFP) detection system. The split GFP technology consists of a 16 amino acid fusion tag and a complementary protein to detect the fusion peptide without any enzymes or special buffers. [...]

Akonni Awarded $300K Grant from National Institutes of Health to Develop RT-PCR Microarray for Detecting Viruses in Human CSF

FREDERICK, Md. - Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics company that develops novel nucleic acid extraction and microarray-based testing systems designed to rapidly and economically analyze biological samples, today announced receipt of a $300K grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will enable Akonni to accelerate the research and development of a closed [...]

VWR International, LLC to Acquire LabPartner (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

RADNOR, PA - VWR International, LLC, a global leader in distributing laboratory supplies and services, announced today that it will acquire LabPartner (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., subject to customary closing conditions and Chinese regulatory approval. Based in Shanghai, LabPartner is an established provider of lab equipment, reagents, consumables, and services for research and development. LabPartner supports [...]

Covance Genomics Laboratory and Broad Institute to Collaborate on Sequencing Genome Studies

Covance said that its Seattle-based genomics laboratory will collaborate with the Broad Institute to create genomic resources for an important research model. Covance’s Next-Generation sequencing capabilities will be used to profile microRNA expression in various tissue samples from this model. This research model has proven to be valuable for understanding various human diseases (respiratory, oncology, [...]

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