August 9, 2011
Santa Clara, CA – Picarro, Inc., the world’s leading provider of instruments for carbon and water cycle measurement, today announced a powerful new analyzer, which, for the first time, simultaneously measures isotope ratios of carbon and hydrogen from a single sample. The Picarro 13C+D CM-CRDS (Carbon-13 + Deuterium Combustion Module - Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy) Isotope [...]
August 8, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and DURHAM, N.C. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Expression Analysis Inc. today announced that Expression Analysis has achieved Certified Service Provider status for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System. SureSelect has been shown to greatly increase the speed and cost-efficiency of next-generation sequencing by enabling researchers to focus experiments on [...]
CombiMatrix Receives New York State Clinical Laboratory Permit
August 8, 2011
IRVINE, Calif. -- CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that it has received its Clinical Laboratory Permit from the New York State Department of Health. The permit allows the Company to immediately begin receiving specimens for DNAarray™ Postnatal Developmental Testing. The DNAarray tests are based on aCGH technology, which provides physicians with a comprehensive genomic evaluation [...]
August 8, 2011
Hillsboro, Ore. -- FEI Company, a leading instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for applications in research and industry, today announced the release of its Titan™ G2 80-200 with ChemiSTEM™ Technology, a new member of the Titan G2 series of S/TEM (scanning / transmission electron microscopes). “By combining the Titan platform’s latest generation of electron [...]
China Medical Technologies and Leica Microsystems Announce Collaboration
August 8, 2011
Joint Sales, Research and DevelopmentBeijing, China / Wetzlar, Germany. China Medical Technologies, Inc. (CMED) (Nasdaq: CMED), a leading China-based advanced in-vitro diagnostic (“IVD”) company, and Leica Biosystems, a division of Leica Microsystems, a world leader in microscopes and scientific instruments, today announced that they have established a sales, research and development collaboration to co-develop and [...]
1ST DETECT AWARDED U.S. PATENT FOR CHEMICAL DETECTION TECHNOLOGY
August 8, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas -- 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC - News), announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a key patent for the company's unique method to drive a mass spectrometer ion trap used for chemical detection and identification. "We are extremely pleased that the USPTO [...]
REGION SKÅNE DIGITIZES THE PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES IN WHOLE OF SOUTHERN SWEDEN
August 8, 2011
Region Skåne, the authority in charge of primary and secondary public health care for the whole southern part of Sweden, has selected Software Point and LABVANTAGE to deliver a $4 million turn-key solution for digitizing the histopathological workflows in the whole region. The system will be possibly the largest such installation in the world and [...]
QIAGEN opens Taiwan subsidiary to further expand presence in Asia
August 8, 2011
SHANGHAI and TAIPEI -- QIAGEN today officially opened its new subsidiary in Taiwan, QIAGEN Taiwan Co., Ltd., and began direct sales in the market. To mark the event, QIAGEN held an inauguration ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel, Taipei, attended by 100 distinguished guests, including local government officials, prominent key opinion leaders and customers. Establishing the [...]
Affymetrix Commercializes Next-Generation Transcriptome Array for Large-Scale Clinical Studies
August 8, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. today announced commercialization of the next-generation human transcriptome array demonstrated by Stanford University researchers to be superior to mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) in gene expression profiling studies. In multiple experiments using a clinically relevant transcriptome discovered by deep sequencing, the research scientists compared the throughput and performance of both profiling technologies and [...]
MGRC Offers Enhanced Online Sequence Analysis Tools
August 8, 2011
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Berhad (MGRC) has announced the extensive update of its comprehensive range of high-speed online bioinformatics analysis tools and reference databases. These free-to-use tools now offer users greater flexibility to perform complex analyses of genomic data with a very short turnaround time. One of the major updates involves [...]
