BioTime’s Subsidiary OncoCyte Corporation Expands Cancer Programs with $10 Million Equity Financing

ALAMEDA, Calif.-- BioTime, Inc., a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced its majority-owned subsidiary OncoCyte Corporation (OncoCyte) has received a new round of equity financing to fund expansion of its development of novel proprietary diagnostics and therapeutics for cancer in humans. The financing included $4 million [...]

AnaSpec Offers ClearPoint™ ?-Amyloid Custom Peptide Synthesis Service

San Jose, CA -- AnaSpec, the world’s largest provider of ?-amyloid peptide and Alzheimer’s research reagents, also provides ClearPoint™-Amyloid custom peptide synthesis service. ClearPoint™ peptides are AnaSpec’s trademark collection of heavy or stable isotope labeled peptides and amino acids. ClearPoint™ peptides offer a choice of heavy carbon (13C), or nitrogen (15N)-isotopes specifically labeled at single [...]

BioDiscovery Releases Nexus Copy Number Version 6.0 for DNA Copy Number Analysis and Visualization

El Segundo, CA - BioDiscovery, Inc. a leader in integrated software solutions for genomics data analysis from high-throughput microarray and Next-Gen sequencing technologies, announced today the release of version 6.0 of Nexus Copy Number software, the leading platform independent and user friendly application for DNA copy number analysis from CGH and SNP array data. Tools [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Robotic Autosampler for Unmatched Automation in Sample Preparation and Handling

BRUSSELS - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific TriPlus RSH Autosampler featuring exceptional precision, flexibility and productivity in sampling solutions. Compatible with Thermo Scientific GC and GC/MS systems, the autosampler sets new standards in automation and provides advanced liquid handling cycles that enable automated functionality beyond [...]

Complete Genomics to Sequence More Than 1,000 Additional Genomes for National Cancer Institute’s Pediatric Cancer Study

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Complete Genomics Inc. (NASDAQ: GNOM), the complete human genome sequencing company, today announced additional details about the option that SAIC-Frederick Inc. has exercised to have Complete Genomics sequence the DNA from more than 500 pediatric cancer cases. This project was first announced during Complete Genomics’ Q2 earnings call on Aug. 4, [...]

The Roy J. Carver Center for Genomics (CCG) Achieves Certified Service Provider status for Roche NimbleGen microarrays

MADISON, Wis. - The University of Iowa, Roy J. Carver Center for Genomics (CCG), entered into an agreement with Roche NimbleGen to provide microarray services through the Roche NimbleGen Certified Service Provider (CSP) program. In July 2011, after passing their rigorous certification test plan, CCG received official certification as a Roche NimbleGen CSP for two [...]

New Picarro Water Isotope Analyzer Makes the Quantum Leap in Performance

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Picarro, the world's leading provider of instruments for carbon and water cycle measurements, announced today the L2130-i, a new water isotope analyzer that advances measurement precision to a new level enabling scientists unprecedented capability to measure fine scale changes in the global water cycle or extractions from a milligram of tissue. [...]

NextGen Sciences Launches Multiplex Protein CSF biomarker Assay for Alzheimer’s Disease

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US and London, UK - NextGen Group plc (AIM:NGG) is pleased to announce that its US-subsidiary NextGen Sciences Inc, a leader in biomarker discovery, measurement and qualification, has launched its csfalzheimers37 multiplex protein assay for Alzheimer’s disease. The assay simultaneously measures 37 human CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) proteins that are believed to have [...]

Cellectis bioresearch Grants Recombinetics an Exclusive License Agreement for the Use of Targeted Nucleases in Large Livestock

PARIS and MINNEAPOLIS -- Cellectis bioresearch, the genome customization specialist and a commercial subsidiary of Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), and Recombinetics, a specialist in biogenetics, announced today that they have entered a development and license agreement on the creation of transgenic large livestock. Recombinetics creates, in accordance with biosafety and animal well-being requirements, large livestock for [...]

GE Healthcare launches Capto™ Blue affinity chromatography medium

GE Healthcare’s Capto Blue affinity chromatography medium is for the capture of human serum albumin (HSA), as well as purification of HSA fusion proteins, blood coagulation factors, enzymes, and recombinant proteins at laboratory and process scales. Developed from Blue Sepharose™ 6 Fast Flow, Capto Blue medium is more chemically stable and has a more rigid [...]

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