Life Technologies to Compete in $10 Million Archon Genomics X PRIZE
July 23, 2012
Los Angeles, CA — The X PRIZE Foundation today announced that Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) is the first team to officially register under the new guidelines for the Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Express Scripts where teams will compete for up to $10 million by being the first to rapidly and accurately sequence [...]
Verder Adds New Laboratory Product Line
July 23, 2012
London, UK 7/3/12; Vleuten, Netherlands 7/6/12—Verder Group has acquired Carbolite from Nova Capital Management for an undisclosed amount. UK-based Carbolite manufactures laboratory and industrial furnaces. The company has 160 employees and sells its products directly in the UK, Germany and France. Carbolite will join Verder’s Laboratory division as a stand-alone unit. “The excellent market position [...]
July 23, 2012
Roka Bioscience introduced the Atlas on Tour vehicle at the 2012 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. The custom-built 40-foot vehicle features a working Atlas System and provides an informational forum for food safety laboratories. The vehicle offers food safety professionals the opportunity to experience a full demonstration of the [...]
Private Equity Firm Acquires Sensiq Techniologies From Flir Systems
July 23, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, -- SensiQ Technologies, Inc. has been acquired by private equity firm TechVen Partners, and will seek to aggressively expand the market reach of its Label-Free Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) devices for biomolecular interaction analysis. “We’re ready to shake things up. With new resources, we are set to expand promotion of SensiQ’s innovative [...]
New Portable Kit Combines Fluid Viscosity and Direct Infrared Spectroscopy Technologies
July 23, 2012
LITTLETON, MA – Spectro, Inc., a leader in analytical instrumentation and software for machine condition monitoring, has created a portable, solvent free, field toolkit that combines both kinematic fluid viscosity and direct infrared spectroscopy solutions. The portability of the combo kit enables immediate decision making by bringing the functionality of powerful analytical tools from the [...]
July 23, 2012
Portland, Maine, – EnviroLogix announced today that it has signed a collaborative agreement with Douglas Scientific to develop and optimize solutions for high throughput real time and endpoint nucleic acid analysis. The companies will leverage and build upon EnviroLogix’ revolutionary isothermal DNAble v2.0 chemistry and Douglas Scientific’s disruptive Array Tape Platform. The DNAble isothermal amplification [...]
Illumina Countersues IBS and Qiagen for Patent Infringement
July 23, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the company has sought leave to file counterclaims against Intelligent Bio-Systems, Inc. (IBS) and Qiagen NV, which recently acquired IBS, in response to the patent lawsuit brought by Columbia University and IBS on March 26, 2012 in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. In its [...]
Illumina Introduces Universal Real-Time PCR Reagent Portfolio
July 23, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today launched its real-time PCR reagent portfolio, including a novel, probe-based chemistry for gene expression analysis called N?PCR™. In addition to the NuPCR Reagents, Illumina announced qPCR DNA Binding Dye (DBD) Assays for Gene Expression Analysis and qPCR High Resolution Melting (HRM) Assays for genotyping studies, providing researchers with [...]
Carl Zeiss Microscopes on World Tour
July 23, 2012
ZEISS on Your Campus (ZOYC) by Carl Zeiss is a traveling tour bringing free microscopy workshops to universities and institutes throughout the world and has attracted more than 2000 attendees since. The tour was launched in 2009 in the United States and, starting in March 2012, was expanded to Europe, Asia, Latin and South America. [...]
Pacific Biosciences Names David Botstein, Ph.D. to Its Board of Directors
July 23, 2012
MENLO PARK, Calif., -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer, today announced the appointment of David Botstein, Ph.D., Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics at Princeton University, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Botstein has served in [...]
