CellAura signs major supply deal with leading international drug discovery group

Latest success for Nottingham biopharma cluster Nottingham, UK – CellAura, the leading producer of fluorescence reagents for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced a development partnership with Cisbio Bioassays. Under the terms of the agreement, CellAura will provide pharmacologically validated reagents to Cisbio Bioassays that will be applied to Cisbio Bioassays’ Tag-lite™ range [...]

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Navigenics Partner to Offer Pathology Residents Personalized Genetic Testing

Residency Training Program Incorporates Personal Genomics into Physician Education BOSTON & FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Navigenics, Inc., a leading personal genomics company, today announced a collaboration to make personalized genomics available to doctors in training. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has launched the Personalized Genomics and Next Generation [...]

Centice Corporation Closes on $6.1 Million Series C Financing

Funds to Support Commercialization of Innovative PASS Rx® System - Centice Corporation, a pioneer in drug verification and safety products, announced today the successful completion of a $6.1 million Series C financing from its existing investors along with a new investor, Fulcrum Financial Group, LP. Morrisville, NC (PRWEB) -- Centice Corporation, a pioneer in drug [...]

Exact Sciences Licenses Hologic’s Invader Detection Chemistry

MADISON, Wis. -- Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS) today announced that it has obtained a worldwide license from Hologic Inc. for that company’s Invader, Invader plus and real-time Invader detection chemistries for the field of colorectal cancer screening. Financial terms of the license agreement were not disclosed. The Invader chemistry, which is being commercialized by [...]

Sigma-Aldrich Announces SAGE(TM) Priority Partners Program

Seeks Researchers to Evaluate New Knockout Rat Models ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced the launch of the SAGE(TM) Priority Partners Program, through which the Company plans to build a network of researchers to evaluate the 'knockout' rat models it is developing to support pre-clinical research work across a number of [...]

Illumina Launches cBot

A Breakthrough Workflow Automation System for Next Generation Sequencing - System Enables Four Hour Clonal Amplification With Less Than Ten Minutes of Hands-on Time HONOLULU -- At the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced the launch and immediate availability of cBot, a new standard for ease-of-use and [...]

AS&E® Received a $19.3 Million Order From U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Places $19.3 Million Follow-on Order for AS&E’s Z Backscatter Vans - ZBVs to Support Counter-drug and Anti-terrorism Programs BILLERICA, Mass. -- American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E®) (NASDAQ: ASEI), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of a $19.3 million order from U.S. Customs [...]

MKS Announces Microvision 2, e-Vision 2 series of RGAs

Highly flexible, web-enabled RGAs with improved stability, accuracy and speed Andover, MA -- MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has introduced Microvision 2 and e-Vision 2, web-enabled residual gas analyzers (RGA) for greater stability and reliability in e-diagnostic, process monitoring and general vacuum trouble-shooting [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Demonstrates New Niton XL2 Series XRF Alloy Analyzer at Fabtech 2009

Niton XL2 Series Analyzers Deliver Positive Material Identification with Point and Shoot Simplicity BILLERICA, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will demonstrate the newest member of its family of Thermo Scientific Niton handheld XRF analyzers, the Niton® XL2 Series, at Fabtech 2009, McCormick Place, Chicago, Booth #4041 from November [...]

Roche and High Throughput Genomics Partner for Advanced Gene Expression Analysis Solution

MADISON, Wis -- Roche NimbleGen (SWX:RO)(SWX:ROG)(Pink Sheets:RHHBY) and High Throughput Genomics, Inc. (HTG), provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA), have entered into a supply agreement. Under the agreement, Roche NimbleGen will provide HTG with high density, multiplex DNA microarray slides for advanced gene expression analysis. HTG will apply the company’s quantitative nuclease protection [...]

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