January 9, 2012
LEXINGTON, Mass.-- RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that it is collaborating with the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, France and BGI in China, the world’s largest genomics institute, to discover new variants and confirm findings from a Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) study conducted by researchers at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. The collaboration will utilize [...]
Avista Capital Partners Agrees to Sell BioReliance to Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
January 9, 2012
OCKVILLE, Md. -- BioReliance, a leading provider of global biopharmaceutical testing services, announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL). Avista Capital Partners, the majority owner of BioReliance Holdings, Inc., agreed to sell the company for $350 million in cash. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Extends Laboratory Chemicals Contract with Honeywell
January 9, 2012
St. Louis, Mo. - Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today it has signed a five-year contract extension with Honeywell for the manufacture and supply of Riedel-de Haën® high purity solvents, Karl Fischer reagents and other laboratory chemicals produced at Honeywell's Seelze, Germany, manufacturing site. The contract extends an existing supply agreement, in place since 1999, [...]
January 9, 2012
Hillsboro, Ore. - FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, today announced that it has acquired ASPEX Corporation of Delmont, PA. ASPEX provides rugged scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and related services for environmentally demanding military, industrial and factory floor applications. “The ASPEX EXtreme™ SEM is an [...]
Complete Genomics Announces Shipment of Approximately 3,000 Genomes in 2011
January 9, 2012
OUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Complete Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq:GNOM) today announced that the company delivered approximately 3,000 genomes to its customers in 2011 and is entering 2012 with contracts for approximately 5,800 genomes. The company delivered more than 600 genomes to its customers in the fourth quarter of 2011. The company had earlier projected delivering approximately [...]
Knome Selected as Technology Partner by Johns Hopkins for Landmark 1,000 Genomes Asthma Research
January 9, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Knome, Inc., the human genome interpretation company, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Under the agreement, Knome will supply its informatics services and software tools to Johns Hopkins’ landmark study to uncover genetic variants that contribute to asthma in African American [...]
Integromics announces the release of SeqSolve 2.1
January 9, 2012
Granada and Madrid, Spain and Philadelphia, PA, U.S. – Integromics(R), a market leader in IT solutions provision for life sciences in the field of genomics and proteomics, today announces the release of SeqSolve 2.1(TM), its analytical software package which makes the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data simpler. SeqSolve 2.1 provides scientists with a [...]
AB SCIEX Expands Eksigent Microflow UHPLC Capabilities for LC/MS Workflows
January 9, 2012
Framingham, Massachusetts - AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the extension of capabilities in Eksigent microflow ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) with the launch of new electrospray ionization electrodes for use with the industry standard Turbo VTM ionization source. These small diameter electrodes significantly improve bioanalytical separation, resulting in [...]
January 9, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced several new products and protocols to improve workflows for Ion Torrent DNA sequencing applications, demonstrating the unparalleled speed, scalability and simplicity that Ion Torrent delivered in 2011. "In 2011 we scaled semiconductor sequencing 100x and simplified the workflow with Ion OneTouch ™," [...]
Agilent Technologies Announces Launch of the World’s First Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS
January 9, 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced the launch of the Agilent 8800 triple quadrupole ICP-MS (ICP-QQQ), the first and only instrument of its kind. The new ICP-QQQ system offers improved performance compared to single quadrupole ICP-MS, and provides MS/MS operation for controlled and consistent interference removal in reaction mode. ICP-QQQ also addresses high-end [...]

