February 15, 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Affymetrix, Inc. today announced that its GeneChip® System 3000Dx v.2 (GCS 3000Dx v.2) has been approved by China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for in vitro diagnostic use. The GCS 3000Dx v.2 is the first microarray instrument system to be granted SFDA registration for array-based diagnostics for enabling personalized medicine. China [...]
Jury Awards $52 Million in Damages to Promega
February 15, 2012
MADISON, WISCONSIN, today, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, a jury awarded $52,009,941 in damages to Promega Corporation (Madison, WI) for infringing sales by Life Technologies (Carlsbad, CA). The jury also found the infringing sales were made willfully. The Court may increase the final damage amount in light of [...]
SEMTech Solutions Expands its SEM Lab
February 15, 2012
North Billerica, MA, SEMTech Solutions, a world leading supplier of used Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs) is pleased to announce the addition of Deborah M. Langlais as Vice President of our Analytical Testing Laboratory. Deb will manage the day to day operation of the SEM Lab and to ensure customer satisfaction. Additionally, she will bring changes [...]
Analytik Jena and SOTAX announce cooperation in dissolution systems
February 15, 2012
Jena and und Allschwil, the spectrophotometers of Analytik Jena's SPECORD® PLUS series will be complementing the product range of the Swiss company SOTAX, a leading solutions provider in the pharmaceutical industry. With this mutually beneficial cooperation, Analytik Jena AG is taking the chance to embrace new opportunities and new market potential in the pharmaceutical industry [...]
February 15, 2012
Malvern, UK: Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) and Postnova Analytics (Landsberg/Lech, Germany) have announced that they are co-operating to deliver the combined FFF (Field-Flow Fractionation) and DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) solutions that today provide critical insight when characterizing a number of challenging particulate systems. Such systems include complex, aggregated, surface-coated and heterogeneous particles, as well as [...]
DNAnexus Announces Strategic Alliances to Drive the Advancement of DNA-Based Medicine
February 14, 2012
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform, today announced agreements with leading institutions – Geisinger Health System (GHS) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) – to develop clinically relevant workflows to provide new insights into the use of DNA sequencing in medicine. As part of these relationships, key laboratories [...]
February 14, 2012
Ann Arbor, Mich. and Cambridge, Mass., Compendia Bioscience today announced that it has signed a three-year licensing agreement with H3 Biomedicine, Inc. to Compendia's full suite of Oncomine tools including Oncomine Concepts Edition and Oncomine Power Tools Edition. In addition, Compendia and H3 will work together to mine data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Releases Newest Chromatography Columns and Consumables Catalog
February 14, 2012
SAN JOSE, Calif., Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, released its 2012-2013 Thermo Scientific Chromatography Columns and Consumables catalog. The more comprehensive catalog is organized into four core segments: sample preparation, vials and closures, gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, and it combines all the latest product innovations, including those added after [...]
February 14, 2012
SOUTH SAN FRANCISO, Calif., Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) will unveil a new custom assay design service for high-sample throughput amplicon resequencing on Illumina platforms at this week’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting. The Access Array™ Target-Specific Primers, when used with the Fluidigm Access Array System, allow for fast, simple, and inexpensive preparation of [...]
February 14, 2012
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nabsys, Inc., a life sciences company pioneering development of solid-state single-molecule positional sequencing technology, today announced that data demonstrating the first direct electronic re-sequencing and mapping of DNA will be presented at the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting, February 15 to 18, on Marco Island, Fla., and the Omics [...]
