Corning Announces Results to Date of Cash Tender Offer
November 9, 2012
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced today that, pursuant to its previously announced cash tender offer, $74,681,000 million in aggregate principal amount of debentures subject to the cash tender offer were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn before 5 p.m. New York City time on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, the Early Tender Date for the tender offer, [...]
November 9, 2012
FREMONT, Calif., -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBS) announced today that it obtained an exclusive license from Rutgers University for the patent covering a novel RNA Quality Control technology, which was developed at RUCDR Infinite Biologics under the leadership of Drs. Jay A. Tischfield and Andrew I. Brooks. The company intends to develop and commercialize [...]
IntegenX Announces Issuance of Key Patent for Ambient Temperature Storage of DNA and RNA
November 9, 2012
PLEASANTON, CA –– IntegenX reported today that the USPTO has issued U.S. Patent # 8,283,165 to Mike Hogan, PhD, and GenVault Corporation, a subsidiary of IntegenX Inc. This is a fundamental patent covering formulations to create a dry state matrix for ambient temperature preservation of RNA and DNA. While significant advances in high-throughput sequencing have [...]
Verinata Health Announces New Findings at the American Society of Human Genetics
November 9, 2012
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. –– Verinata Health, Inc., a privately-held company dedicated to maternal and fetal health, today announced two poster presentations at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). The conference is being held in San Francisco, California. “The verifi® prenatal test offers pregnant women access to a blood test [...]
November 9, 2012
WATERTOWN, Mass -- Dynasil Corporation of America (NASDAQ: DYSL) today announced that its RMD Inc. subsidiary has been awarded multiple research contracts supporting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO). The contracts, totaling $3.4 million under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, will advance [...]
Introducing the NEW Labcaire Geneses Class II Microbiological Safety Cabinet Range
November 9, 2012
PuriCore are the UK manufacturer of Labcaire , Microbiological Safety Cabinets, Fume Cupboards, Laminar Flow Cabinets, Downflow Benches, PCR Prep Stations, Chemical Storage Cabinets and distribute Sonicator Ultrasonic Liquid Processors from Q-Sonica. With over 25 years experience in the market. Launching at the forthcoming Lab Innovations Exhibition, (NEC, Birmingham, 7th & 8th November 2012)Stand E17. [...]
November 8, 2012
LEXINGTON, Mass. and SAN FRANCISCO –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced new placements of its ThunderStorm™ System at the LIGAN-Personalized Medicine Equipment of Excellence at the Pasteur Institute of Lille in France and CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate in Naples, Italy. The ThunderStorm System is a fully automated high-throughput targeted sequencing solution that [...]
November 8, 2012
BERKELEY, CA – IO Informatics, the leader in semantic data integration and knowledge management for life sciences and healthcare, announced today it has launched its Sentient iDA in cooperation with Sage-N Research, Inc., the inventor of Integrated Data Appliance (iDA) systems. As the result of a partnership announced March 2012, a new line of iDA [...]
LabAnswer Center of Excellence Brings Jobs to Central Florida
November 8, 2012
LabAnswer, the nation’s leading laboratory informatics consultancy, announced the creation of a science and technology Center of Excellence (COE) in Central Florida. After opening in October of 2011, the LabAnswer Center of Excellence already employs ten full time laboratory informatics professionals specializing in informatics solutions such as Laboratory Information Management Systems, Chromatography Data Systems, Electronic [...]
Agilent Technologies Introduces SureSelect Human All-Exon UTRs for Next-Generation Sequencing
November 8, 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced SureSelect Human All-Exon V5 and V5 + UTRs for next-generation sequencing. The new all-exon solutions incorporate the latest advances from Agilent Genomics, the originator of target enrichment for human exomes. SureSelect Human All-Exon V5 continues to build on the market-leading SureSelect Target Enrichment platform, enabling faster turnaround-producing exome [...]

