PARIS - Exonhit (Paris:ALEHT), a biotech company focused on personalized medicine, and BGI, the world’s largest genome organization, are pleased to announce the successful completion of a project dedicated to expanding Exonhit’s Genome-Wide SpliceArrayTM to an additional strategic preclinical animal model species. To answer the need for a comprehensive understanding of gene deregulation and the [...]

WARREN, N.J. - Roka Bioscience announced today that it will be participating in the 2011 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Conference. The conference will be held at the Frontier Airlines Convention Center, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from July 31 through August 3, 2011. Roka will be located at booth #821. At the conference, the company [...]

ATLANTA - Singapore-based medical device company, Clearbridge BioLoc, today unveiled the prototype of its flagship product, AssayQuest™. This is a fully-automated, portable analysis platform that can perform complex and cost effective point-of-care testing from a finger-prick blood sample. It potentially enables clinicians and healthcare workers to conduct professional, laboratory-quality tests at the point-of-care, receiving the [...]

Atlanta - Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) today unveiled new technology solutions for increasing clinical laboratory efficiencies including the first CE Marked LC/MS/MS integrated solution for the quantification of everolimus (Certican®). Being displayed in Waters booth #3136 are these exciting new products. • MassTrak™ Online Solid Phase Extraction Analyzer providing automated sample clean-up, concentration, and extraction complemented [...]

New Orleans, LA - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for industrial biotechnology, life science, and drug discovery research, today announced its participation in the Integrated Phenotype-Genotype (IPG) project. IPG is an industry-led research consortium of companies in the biotechnology industry, including Evonik Industries and GATC, as well as the Bielefeld University Center [...]

ROCKVILLE, Md. - OriGene Technologies, Inc., a gene-centric life sciences company known for its development of cDNA clones, human full length proteins, antibodies, and other molecular tools for multiplex research introduces its major breakthrough technology High-Density Protein Microarray Chip for the quality control of its (TrueMAB™) monoclonal antibodies. The new chip enables OriGene to screen [...]

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - OraSure Technologies, Inc. announced today that it will acquire privately-held, DNA Genotek Inc., a leading provider of oral fluid sample collection, stabilization and preparation products for molecular diagnostic applications, for approximately US $53 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments. The transaction is anticipated to close in the third quarter of this [...]

Today, at the 2011 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo, Phadia, the global leader in allergy and autoimmune disease-related diagnostics, demonstrates how ImmunoCAP Molecular Allergy can help improve the diagnosis and management of food allergy. With heightened awareness of the impact, prevalence, cost, and severity of food allergies, ImmunoCAP [...]

BRNO, Czech Republic - TESCAN, a world leading manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam workstations has introduced the LYRA GM FIB-SEM workstation “A New Multifunctional Tool for Nanotechnology” Expanding on the success of the European FIBLYS project (https://www.fiblys.eu), this newest generation FIB-SEM workstation from TESCAN delivers state of the art integration of [...]

Oberlin College continues its emphasis on the highest level of education with its investment in top research grade spectrophotometers for its chemistry and biochemistry teaching laboratories. Oberlin chose the Biochrom WPA Biowave II UV/Visible Spectrophotometers to teach the nation’s next generation of scientists. These Biochrom spectrophotometers enable the students to engage in the most current [...]