New York Genome Center Launches Major Initiative with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research to Sequence Whole Genomes of Alzheimer’s Patients

New York, NY,(Marco Island, FL) - New York Genome Center (NYGC), in collaboration with Illumina, today announced at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) annual meeting the initiation of a large-scale whole genome sequencing project with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, an Institutional Founding Member [...]

Bioline Introduces New SensiFAST™ HRM Kit for Gene Mutations and SNP Analysis

CINCINNATI, Bioline, The PCR Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO), is proud to announce the latest addition to its SensiFAST family real-time PCR products. SensiFAST HRM Kit facilitates High Resolution Melt (HRM) curve analysis, enabling amplification and discrimination of even the most challenging sequence differences (such as class 4 SNPs) without sequence [...]

Fujifilm Holdings Successfully Completes Tender Offer for SonoSite

Tokyo, Japan / New York, NY, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation (TSE: 4901, hereinafter: Fujifilm), a diversified technology company that operates in healthcare, highly functional materials, and document solutions, announced today the successful completion of a tender offer through its indirect wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary Salmon Acquisition Corporation (hereinafter: Purchaser) for all outstanding shares of common stock of [...]

New England Biolabs’ NEBNext® Oligo Modules Offer Flexible Construction of Singleplex and Multiplex Libraries for the Illumina® Sequencing Platform

IPSWICH, Mass., New England Biolabs today introduces NEBNext® Oligo Modules that enable the construction of singleplex or multiplex high yield libraries for DNA, ChIP-Seq or mRNA sequencing on Illumina® instruments. NEBNext Oligo Modules contain a novel adaptor that ligates efficiently to end-repaired, dA-tailed DNA. Designed for maximum flexibility, two NEBNext Oligo Modules are now available: [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Provides Electronic Access to Chromatography Resources

ATLANTA, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, provides you with easy access to online, iPhone and iPad optimized versions of the Thermo Scientific Chromatography Columns and Consumables catalog and Thermo Scientific Accucore HPLC Column Technical guide, which contain technical specifications and application examples to help with your chromatography separations. With over [...]

Complete Genomics Launches Genomic Discovery Software Partners Program

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., Complete Genomics Inc.,the whole human genome sequencing company, today introduced its Genomic Discovery Software Partners Program. Ingenuity® Systems, Golden Helix and DNAnexus have been chosen as initial partners because they have offerings that complement the information supplied with Complete Genomics’ sequencing service and can expedite the genetic research of its customers. “Researchers [...]

Boreal Genomics Announces Early Access Program for OnTarget™ Allele Enrichment System

Los Altos, CA, Boreal Genomics, a developer of sequence-based enrichment technology, introduced the OnTarget™ Allele Enrichment System today through an early access program. The OnTarget™ System utilizes Boreal’s novel technology for the depletion of wild-type alleles with single nucleotide selectivity for improved detection of both known and unknown rare cancer mutations. OnTarget™ enables clinicians and [...]

UCB Selects IDBS for Enterprise Research Data Management Platform

Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass., IDBS, a global provider of innovative data management, analytics and modeling solutions, today announced that UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, has selected IDBS to deliver a data management and process development platform across its global research organization. UCB will deploy E-WorkBook Suite and BioBook across several research divisions to streamline [...]

Compact Imaging Reaches Agreement On Research Collaboration with Irish Universities

Mountain View, CA/Galway, Ireland, Compact Imaging Inc. (CI) today announced an innovative research collaboration with National University of Ireland Galway and University of Limerick. The two-year agreement, in the scientific field of biophotonics, specifically optical coherence tomography (OCT), will explore and further develop CI’s novel technologies. OCT is an imaging technique similar to ultrasound, but [...]

Illumina Launches Cancer Analysis Service

SAN DIEGO, Illumina, Inc. today announced the launch of a Cancer Analysis Service from the Illumina Genome Network (IGN) that leverages the high accuracy of Illumina technologies to provide cancer researchers with easily interpretable tumor/normal sequencing data to quickly move their research forward. IGN is designed to link researchers needing large-scale, whole human genome sequencing [...]

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