San Francisco, CA - Swift Biosciences Inc., a developer of innovative genetic analysis tools for the diagnostic industry, today presented two applications of their myT™ Primer qPCR. Results were presented for quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays that can detect mutations in two cancer genes: KRAS and BRAF. These assays were evaluated for analytical sensitivity [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., & AIRPORT CITY, Israel - Fluidigm Corporation, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), has appointed Eisenberg Brothers Ltd. as its distributor in Israel. Eisenberg Brothers will offer Fluidigm’s complete portfolio of BioMark™, EP1™, and Access Array™ Systems and the complete line up of Dynamic Array™, Digital Array™ and Access Array [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif. - MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., a leader in nucleic acid purification and molecular biology reagents, announces the launch of an innovative new product for gel electrophoresis, Dye Dots™ Dry Gel Loading Dye. Dye Dots™ eliminate a time-consuming step in the gel loading process, remove the potential for sample loss or mix-up and reduce [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE) today announced that the Ion 318 semiconductor sequencing chip will be available for early access in September of this year, complete with RNA-Seq kits and analysis software, providing up to 1Gb of data output — 100 times more than the original Ion 314 chip introduced two months [...]

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (“ACT”; OTCBB: ACTC), a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, announced today that it has been issued a patent on its “single-blastomere” technique. Patent Number 7,893,315 broadly covers ACT’s proprietary single-blastomere technology that provides a non-destructive alternative for deriving human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines. “Of the [...]

San Francisco, Calif. - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced the release of Genedata Biologics™, a first-in-class, off-the-shelf software solution for comprehensive data management and analysis of biologics R&D activities. Genedata Biologics streamlines and automates the complex biologics lead generation and optimization process, including [...]

VANCOUVER, BC - Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, a world-leader in molecular intelligence research, announced another major expansion in its PhosphoNET KnowledgeBase (www.phosphonet.ca) for the study of cell communication systems. This open access, online resource for the scientific community now features data on over 93,000 experimentally-confirmed human phosphorylation sites (P-sites) and 560,000 additional P-sites predicted with a [...]

Redwood City, CA - Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of information and analytics solutions for life science researchers, today announced a research collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory (www.covance.com/cgl) for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis. Covance Genomics Laboratory, a leading provider of genomics solutions for the drug discovery and development industry, and Ingenuity will work together [...]

Biomatrica, Inc., a leader in room temperature biostability technology, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT). IQT is the independent, strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Biomatrica has developed SampleMatrix® technology which has pioneered recent innovations in ambient storage of biological samples [...]

LANCASTER, Calif. - Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, has released version 5.5 of its best-in-class ADMET Predictor™ software for predicting properties of molecules with only their structures as inputs. This release includes a number of major improvements: A new Metabolite Module with [...]