Agricultural Research Council in South Africa Selects CLC bio’s Enterprise Platform

PRETORIA, South Africa - Today inqaba biotec, reseller of CLC bio's solutions in South Africa, announced that they have finalized a contract with the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) in South Africa, to install CLC bio's enterprise platform throughout the ARC, across several geographical locations. In order to address the ARC's key strategic areas of improving [...]

Ashoka Cites Innovation of Sage Bionetworks

SEATTLE - Mapping a future of new behaviors for data sharing and building better medicines from the human genome has earned the co-founder of Sage Bionetworks election to Ashoka’s global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs. Stephen Friend, M.D., Ph.D., launched Sage Bionetworks in 2009 to enable data-intensive genomics technology to be applied to human biology. [...]

GE Healthcare Launches PreDictor™ RoboColumn™ Miniaturized Chromatographic Columns

Miniaturized columns for parallel screening in automated workflows GE Healthcare PreDictor™ RoboColumn™ units are miniaturized chromatographic columns prepacked with GE Healthcare BioProcess™ chromatography media to enable high-throughput process development (HTPD). PreDictor RoboColumn units support fully automated chromatographic separation workflows using robotic liquid handling workstations. The prepacked columns are available with a wide range of chromatography [...]

Princeton Security Technologies (OTCBB: PSGY) to Deliver Its Handheld Radiation Detection Units to Japan Nuclear Crisis

PRINCETON, NJ - Princeton Security Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: PSGY), which develops Radiation Isotope Identifiers, Area Monitors and High Purity Germanium detector technology for Nuclear Power plant applications, homeland security markets, National Research Laboratories, security OEM systems integrators, hospitals and overseas nuclear safety agencies, received multiple new orders earlier this week for its Handheld Radiation Detection [...]

IntegenX, NuGEN Announce Collaboration to Automate the NuGEN Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Sample Preparation Workflows

PLEASANTON, CA - IntegenX Inc. and NuGEN Technologies, Inc. announced today a partnership to automate NuGEN's NGS Sample Preparation workflows on IntegenX's Apollo series next-generation sequencing library preparation instruments. NuGEN's Ovation® RNA-Seq System is the first kit to be automated under this agreement. By processing up to 32 samples from as little as 500 pg [...]

SOFIA Completes First Flight of German Science Instrument

WASHINGTON - The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed its first science flight Wednesday, April 6, using the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT) scientific instrument. GREAT is a high-resolution far-infrared spectrometer that finely divides and sorts light into component colors for detailed analysis. SOFIA is the only operational airborne observatory. [...]

MIT’s Koch Institute to use Roche LightCycler 480 System to Help Advance Cancer Research

INDIANAPOLIS - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT will be using the Roche LightCycler® 480 System, a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system for the analysis of gene expression and genetic variation, in advanced cancer research. The Koch Institute plans to [...]

B&W Tek, Inc Announces New Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Newark, DE - B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems announces Dr. Michael Kayat as the new Vice President of Sales and Marketing at their headquarters in Newark, Delaware. Dr. Kayat will be responsible for leading global sales and marketing activities for the company’s broad range of products and [...]

Advanced Photonix, Inc. Announces Sale of Computer Tomography System Option

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Advanced Photonix® company (NYSE Amex: API), announced today that it has shipped the second Computer Tomography (CT) accessory to NICT in Japan. Building upon its previously purchased T-Ray 4000®, NICT is expanding its base system capability, by incorporating a CT gantry with a 20" horizontal and a 12" vertical scanning capability. [...]

Complete Genomics Adds 29 High-Coverage, Complete Human Genome Sequencing Datasets to Its Public Genomic Repository

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Complete Genomics Inc. (NASDAQ: GNOM), a complete human genome sequencing company that has developed and commercialized an innovative DNA sequencing platform, announced today that it has added 29 high-coverage, complete human genome sequences to its public genomic repository. Combined with the 40 genome datasets that Complete Genomics released on Feb. 3, [...]

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