The Biodesign Institute® at Arizona State University has reached an agreement with HighRes Biosolutions to automate DNA sample preparation of Nucleic Acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) using a flexible dual NanoCell™ laboratory automation system. The dual NanoCell system was selected by Dr. Joshua LaBaer, director of the Institute’s Virginia G. Piper Center For Personalized Diagnostics, [...]

SEATTLE, WA, – Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation, a leading provider of next-generation sequencing assays for the adaptive immune system, announced today results from the first head-to-head comparison of high throughput sequencing (HTS) using immunoSEQ™ and traditional flow cytometry. The study, which was conducted in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington [...]

Hamburg, Germany – Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, TecDAX) is proud to announce the addition of Agilent Technologies’ RapidFire Mass Spectrometry analysis capabilities to their High Throughput Screening facilities in Hamburg. RapidFire, a robust, in-line solid phase extraction technology enables ultrafast, direct analysis of native compounds for a wide variety of biochemical assays including [...]

ST. LOUIS, - Sigma-Aldrich announced today that it has established a new $600 million revolving credit facility that will mature on May 10, 2017. The new facility replaces a $450 million revolving credit facility that was scheduled to mature on December 11, 2012. The $600 million facility will provide back-up liquidity for the commercial paper [...]

Baird Capital Partners Europe (“Baird”), the UK-based lower middle market private equity investor, announced today that it is acquiring the Instrumentation Solutions business of e2v technologies plc (LSE: E2V LN), the technology engineering solutions designer, developer and manufacturer, in a transaction totalling £15m. The acquired business will be re-named ‘SGX Sensortech Limited’ (“SGX”). SGX designs [...]

NEWARK, Calif. - Morpho Detection, Inc. (MDI), the explosives and narcotics detection business of Morpho, Safran group's security unit, today announced its next-generation Itemiser® DX desktop explosives trace detection (ETD) system has been certified for air cargo screening by the U.K. Department for Transport (DfT). This certification from U.K. DfT is an important recognition of [...]

Multiphoton confocal microscopes from Carl Zeissnow permit the simultaneous use of two NLO lasers or one laser with an optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Both components are fully integrated and expand the functionality of the multiphoton systems. In dual laser systems different laser wavelengths simultaneously excite several fluorescent dyes or proteins. Without time loss, users can [...]

Semba Biosciences, Inc. today announced a collaboration agreement with ChromWorks, Inc. whereby Semba will distribute ChromWorks™ Simulation Software with Semba’s Octave™ chromatography instruments. The agreement provides customers with a turnkey solution for development of novel separation processes based on continuous multicolumn and simulated moving bed chromatography (SMBC). Semba’s Octave™ Chromatography Systemrepresents a new enabling technology [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform, today announced that it has appointed Marc Olesen as President and Chief Operating Officer. With deep experience in cloud computing and data security, Olesen will complement the company’s existing executive team as DNAnexus gears up for the commercial launch of its new genomics [...]

Leuven –— Cartagenia, the world leader in providing diagnostic knowledge, analytic software and database systems to genetic labs and clinicians for patient-centric high-throughput variant assessment and clinical reporting, announces that it has signed contracts with two Canadian customers, including Mississauga, Ontario-based Credit Valley Hospital. Credit Valley Hospital laboratory is one of two Ontario provincial clinical [...]