Pittsburgh, PA, BioDatomics releases a new version of their computational biology analysis and visualization platform – a workstation version is now available for free download - BioDatomics.com. BioDatomics is a sophisticated software and hardware platform supported by cutting edge data storage and delivery technologies built to deliver all the computational power required for today’s high [...]

Bluechiip Limited [ASX BCT] – which has developed a ground-breaking wireless tracking solution for the healthcare and life science, security, defence and manufacturing industries – today announced it has signed a Collaborative Evaluation and Trial Agreement (“Agreement”) with ATCC, a recognized leader in biological materials management and processes for cell provisioning based in the USA. [...]

McLean, VA, Dovèl Technologies announced today that they have been awarded an IDIQ contract from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for support of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) program. FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) operates mainly five types of laboratories -- microbiology, food chemistry, drug chemistry, devices, and forensics. The ORA has [...]

TUSTIN, Calif., Axiom Analytical, Inc. has announced the availability of its new DPR-210XT High-Transmission ATR (Attenuated Total Reflectance) Probe. This probe has been designed specifically to interface with the new generation of small and flexible FTIR spectrometers available from companies such as Bruker Optics and Thermo-Fisher Scientific. The configurations of these spectrometers allows the use [...]

OMAHA, Neb. & PARIS--Transgenomic, Inc. and ScreenCell, a privately-held company, today announced the signing of a perpetual, worldwide collaboration and distribution agreement for ScreenCell’s Isolation Devices and Dilution Buffers, designed for the collection of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood. ScreenCell® offers innovative, single-use devices to isolate by size and characterize all possible tumor [...]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--Quintiles’ ability to provide customers with actionable early-stage data to make better development decisions faster has taken a significant step forward with the closing of the previously announced agreement to acquire Advion BioServices, a premier U.S.-based bioanalytical laboratory. Now known as Advion Bioanalytical Labs, a Quintiles company, the group provides Good Laboratory [...]

San Diego, CA, USA - Oxford Expression Technologies (OET), the award-winning specialist provider of recombinant protein expression solutions, has opened a new US hub site. The inauguration of this new hub, which is operated by San Diego based biotech company Abcore Inc, will not only allow customers in the United States to purchase OET products [...]

SAN DIEGO--BioNano Genomics, Inc. has elected Albert Luderer, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Luderer brings to the role more than three decades of experience in biotechnology, with a special emphasis on technology and business development and commercialization. The appointment supports the Company’s ongoing commitment to delivering new technologies that provide researchers with an [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today launched the Agilent 2200 TapeStation to automate next-generation sequencing sample and library quality control. Together with the prepackaged, ready-to-use ScreenTape consumables, the 2200 TapeStation simplifies and accelerates quality control in the next-gen sequencing workflow. "We are very excited about this launch," said Patrick Kaltenbach, vice president [...]

Abcodia, a specialist company engaged in the validation and discovery of biomarkers of cancer and other age-related diseases and Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) a provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, today announced a collaboration aimed at improving the early detection of pancreatic cancer. As part of this collaboration, Abcodia [...]