OGT awarded €3 million from prestigious EU clinical research grants
July 24, 2012
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, announced today that its next generation sequencing service team has been awarded two EU- funded clinical research grants worth €3 million. OGT will be providing genomic analysis and commercialisation services for two key international studies, EUCLIDS and PATHSEEK. EUCLIDS [...]
July 24, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS: Q2 2012 Results (all percentages are to comparable periods in 2011) • Q2 2012 reported sales increased 4% to $664 million. Q2 2012 overall sales grew organically by 3% with Research and Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals ("SAFC") organic sales growth of 1% and 8%, respectively. Acquisitions contributed 6% to sales growth. Changes in foreign currency [...]
Illumina Announces BaseSpace® Pricing for Data Storage and Processing
July 24, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced pricing for BaseSpace, the Company’s genomics cloud computing and storage platform. The flexible pricing structure will allow researchers around the world to take advantage of BaseSpace’s industry-leading data storage, analysis, and sharing capabilities. Every BaseSpace account will now include 1 terabyte (TB) of free storage for Illumina [...]
Waters Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results
July 24, 2012
MILFORD, Mass. -- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) reported today second quarter 2012 sales of $451 million, an increase of 1% over sales of $448 million in the second quarter of 2011. Foreign currency translation decreased sales growth by 3%. On a GAAP basis, earnings per diluted share (E.P.S.) for the second quarter were $1.09 compared to [...]
Bio-Rad and Myriad RBM Partner to Commercialize Multiplex Biomarker Kits for Life Science Research
July 24, 2012
Hercules, CA and Austin, TX —— Bio Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, and Myriad RBM, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Myriad Genetics Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN), and a leading multiplex biomarker testing company, today announced that they have partnered to [...]
TTP Labtech, the maker of mosquito, previews new product for crystallography users at ACA
July 24, 2012
Cambridge, UK –– TTP Labtech, leading provider of liquid handling automation for crystallography, will be exhibiting at the American Crystallographic Association from 28 July to 1 August. Displaying its renowned mosquito® Crystal and mosquito LCP, the onsite team will also be providing delegates with a sneak preview of its latest pipetting innovation, the woodpecker screen [...]
New Product Release: Introducing MS3® Mass Spectrometry Workflow
July 24, 2012
Proteome Sciences has developed a multiplexed quantitative mass spectrometry based workflow that virtually eliminates the ratio distortion interference seen with current tandem mass spectrometry (MS2) methodologies which use isobaric labeling techniques. This represents a significant breakthrough in the evolution of mass spectrometry for use in multiplexed quantitative proteomics, and opens the door to use of [...]
5-Channel Fluorescence Digital Pathology Scanning
July 24, 2012
Wetzlar, Germany. Leica Microsystems announces the release of the SCN400 2.2 scanning platform. Batch processing in both brightfield and multi-channel fluorescence, coupled with user-friendly workflows, makes the SCN400 2.2 an all-round high performance solution for digital pathology scanning. With up to 5 fluorescence channels per slide, the SCN400 2.2 provides a truly flexible whole slide [...]
July 24, 2012
MOUNTAIN VIEW and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. —— Complete Genomics Inc. (NASDAQ: GNOM) and Ingenuity® Systems Inc. today announced that Complete Genomics will bundle the Ingenuity Variant Analysis application with its research whole genome sequencing services. This bundled solution will enable research customers to rapidly analyze and interpret biologically relevant genetic variations and provide researchers with [...]
July 24, 2012
WALTHAM, Mass. -- PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that its DNA Sequencing Services Laboratory in Branford, Connecticut is now a Connecticut state licensed and CLIA registered clinical laboratory (CT license # CL0685). PerkinElmer's DNA Sequencing Services Laboratory is designed to provide [...]

