Leader in drug screening tools and technologies now has local sales teams in China and South Korea Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France – Cisbio Bioassays (www.htrf.com), a member of IBA group and global developer of HTRF® (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, today announced that it has established sales operations in [...]

Institute Purchases Additional 30 GAIIx Systems SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the Broad Institute has purchased 30 additional Genome Analyzers, increasing its total installed base of Illumina systems to 89. “We’ve significantly expanded our fleet of Genome Analyzers to ramp up our sequencing capabilities in whole genome, whole exome, and whole transcriptome analysis,” [...]

Collaborative Efforts Leading to Advances That Will Contribute to Health Care Reform SUNNYVALE, CA -- Arrayit Corporation (OTC.BB:ARYC - News) is pleased to join the federal government in their efforts to help control health care costs through early diagnosis of diseases. For more than 150 years, traditional medicine has relied on a 'standards of care' [...]

Complete Genomics Publishes in Science on Low-Cost Sequencing of Three Human Genomes Using Its Proprietary Sequencing Platform MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Complete Genomics, a third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced publication of a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of sequence data from three complete human genomes. The consumables [...]

WaferGen Names Christopher Sears, Ph.D., Architect of High-Value Molecular Diagnostics and Computational Biology Platforms, to Company's Scientific Advisory Board FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS - News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced that Christopher Sears, Ph.D. has joined the company's Scientific Advisory Board. His career has [...]

Reno, Nevada -- Hamilton Robotics introduces the MICROLAB NIMBUS Heater/Shaker Package - an integrated system that incorporates high-speed automated pipetting with orbital plate shaking and heating. This preconfigured, turnkey package provides streamlined functionality for a variety of applications that require heat for solute mixing or shaking such as in colorimetric, fluorescent or luminescent bioassays, cell [...]

League City, TX -- The International Society of Automation (ISA) named Senscient, Inc. as the winner of its Gold InTech Innovator’s Award. The award was presented at ISA EXPO 2009 in Houston. The InTech Innovator’s Awards recognize companies that have made significant and unique contributions to any field in the automation profession. These contributions include, [...]

Less Expensive, More Reliable Rodent Panel Offers Both Predictivity and Mechanistic Profiles PITTSBURGH--Cellumen, Inc., a discovery and early safety assessment company, today announced that its in vitro Rat Hepatocyte Early Safety Assessment Panel provides increased predictivity for human drug induced liver injury (DILI) equivalent to that of a recently published panel comprised of human hepatocytes. [...]

Online Event from Varian, Inc. Features New and Recently Introduced Products PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS:VARI) has announced that The Varian Experience, an online event, has reopened with new and updated information. The interactive, digital world features an abundance of application-specific research data, animated product demonstrations, and a digital kiosk where customers can [...]

Marlborough, Massachusetts -- Block Engineering announced today that it has been awarded a new $4,380,000 government contract to develop a fieldable, handheld infrared spectrometer that utilizes Block's unique laser and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies. The spectrometer will be used for standoff detection of solid and liquid explosive materials or other substances that could be used [...]