February 2, 2011
MENLO PARK, Calif. & MARCO ISLAND, Fla. - Joining other industry leaders at the 12th annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology Conference (AGBT), Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) today provided an update on its progress toward providing the premier complete solution to customers for third generation DNA sequencing applications. "We are entering the [...]
DNAnexus Launches First Complete Cloud-Based Solution for Genomic Variation Identification
February 2, 2011
PALO ALTO, Calif. & MARCO ISLAND, Fla. - DNAnexus, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for analyzing, visualizing, and managing next-generation sequencing data, today announced the availability of a comprehensive set of new informatics tools that enable life science researchers to efficiently analyze and manage large-scale genomic variation datasets in a cloud-based workflow. DNAnexus [...]
Versatile Handheld FTIR for QA/QC Applications
February 2, 2011
A2 Technologies, a leading supplier of FTIR analyzers for QA/QC applications in the lab, in the field or at the production line, has expanded the sampling capability of its Exoscan handheld FTIR system. A new Spherical ATR Sampling interface enables the Exoscan to quickly and accurately analyze a wide range of materials typically encountered in [...]
Frazier Healthcare Announces Acquisition of Laboratory Supply Company, Inc.
February 2, 2011
SEATTLE - Frazier Healthcare, a leading provider of growth equity and venture capital to high growth and emerging healthcare companies, announced today that it has acquired Laboratory Supply Company, Inc. (LABSCO). Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, LABSCO is the largest privately held supplier of diagnostic instrumentation and clinical laboratory products to hospitals, physician office laboratories, reference [...]
February 2, 2011
Victoria, BC, Canada - GenoLogics, a leading provider of laboratory information management system (LIMS) software specifically designed for complex genomics labs, today announced it has signed a worldwide co-selling agreement with Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. Under terms of the deal, Illumina will market a version of the [...]
February 2, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- Agilent Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: A) today introduced SureSelect RNA Capture Kits, the first commercial RNA target enrichment system enabling geneticists to focus on specific genomic loci or transcripts of research interest. The RNA capture kits make it possible to precisely measure expression levels of genes of interest and detect allelic-specific expression, [...]
February 2, 2011
ST. LOUIS - Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced that its SAGE Labs initiative has partnered with Cofactor Genomics in an effort to sequence genomes for six of the most widely used strains of rat. As part of the agreement, Cofactor Genomics plans to generate [...]
Promega to Offer Leading Transfection Tool FuGENE® 6
February 2, 2011
MADISON, WISCONSIN - Promega Corporation and Fugent LLC recently signed a supply agreement that establishes Promega as a provider of the leading transfection tool FuGENE® 6. This agreement ensures that researchers will continue to have access to the FuGENE® transfection reagents they have always used in their daily research. This expands on the existing Promega/Fugent [...]
ChiroSolve, Inc. Launches New Method Development Kits
February 2, 2011
CHIROSOLVE INC., continues to enhance the world of enantiomeric separation with the introduction of two new customer-centric packaged solutions, EnantioPrep and ScalePrep, that are intended for high efficiency chiral separation of enantiomers. They offer seamless transition from identification of initial separation conditions to fully optimized method development within a matter of days. ChiroSolve has been [...]
Agilent Technologies Secures First Patent for On-Array Capture Method
February 2, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it was awarded a U.S. patent for the process used in on-array capture of genomic elements for downstream analysis, including next- generation sequencing. The patent was issued for a method that uses oligonucleotide probes attached to a solid support as a sequence-specific affinity [...]
