Life Technologies Launches Ion PGM Sequencer

Company Initiates $7 Million Life Grand Challenges Crowdsourcing Contest CARLSBAD, Calif. - Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced that it has launched its Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM(TM)) sequencer, the first product to use semiconductor sequencing technology. The sequencer is shipping to select sites in North America, Europe [...]

Horizon to Support 50 Centers of Excellence in Human Cellular Gene-Editing

Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines,has announced that it will commit resources to provide training and open access to its rAAV GENESIS human gene-editing platform for another 50 academic and not-for-profit research groups over the next five years, extending the GENESIS Gene Editing Consortium. This [...]

Singulex Announces Issuance of U.S. Patents for Single Molecule Detection of Protein Biomarkers and Key Biomarker for Cardiac Risk Monitoring

Intellectual Property Rights Cover Ultrasensitive Detection of Protein Biomarkers to Discover Relationships to Disease States ALAMEDA, Calif. - Singulex, Inc., the leader in high-definition immunodiagnostic technology, announced today that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has issued two patents related to the Company’s Erenna® Technology, for the quantitative measurement of single molecules in complex biological [...]

Agilent Technologies Appoints EdgeBio Target Enrichment Certified Service Provider for Next-Generation Sequencing

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and EdgeBio today announced that EdgeBio has been appointed Certified Service Provider (CSP) for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System for next-generation sequencing. SureSelect, introduced in February 2009, has been shown to greatly increase the speed and cost-efficiency of next-generation sequencing workflows by [...]

Linde North America and TestAmerica Team Set Guinness World Record

Linde North America, Inc., by working in collaboration with TestAmerica, is now recognized as a Guinness World Record holder. The category: Development of a calibration standard that produces the greatest number of separate chemical components in a single gas mixture. The pioneering 110-component calibration gas mixture standard was designed and engineered for TestAmerica Laboratories, Inc. [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Elects New Director

WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that Nelson J. Chai has been elected to its board of directors, bringing the company's total number of directors to 11. Mr. Chai has also been appointed to the board's Audit Committee. Mr. Chai is the executive vice [...]

H2scan Launches their Most Robust Hydrogen Analyzer to Date

New explosion-proof, UL-certified HY-OPTIMA™ 2700 offers the industry’s most affordable, long-term process analyzer solution for hazardous locations "VALENCIA, CA - H2scan Corporation, provider of the most accurate, tolerant and affordable hydrogen leak detection and process gas monitoring solutions for industrial markets, today announced the launch of their new explosion-proof HY-OPTIMA™ 2700 In-Line Process Hydrogen Monitor, [...]

Ryan & Maniskas, LLP Announces Investigation of Dionex Corporation

Ryan & Maniskas, LLP (www.rmclasslaw.com/cases/dnex) is investigating potential claims against the board of directors of Dionex Corporation ("Dionex" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: DNEX) concerning possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law related to the Company’s efforts to sell Dionex to Thermo Fisher Scientific in a transaction valued at approximately $2.1 billion. Our [...]

Agilent Technologies Supports Princeton Professors’ Work Producing Comprehensive Integrated Biology Database

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and PRINCETON, N. J. - The Agilent Technologies Foundation today announced that David Botstein and his colleagues, Joshua Rabinowitz, Benjamin Garcia and Leonid Kruglyak, received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of their work in systems biology. Dr. Botstein is professor and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and [...]

SPRIworks Fragment Library System III From Beckman Coulter Genomics Automates Library Construction

Benchtop System Prepares Samples for the Life Technologies SOLiD Sequencer DANVERS, Mass. - SPRIworks Fragment Library System III from Beckman Coulter Genomics automates the preparation of libraries for the Life Technologies SOLiD* Sequencer. With the introduction of this third system in a series, researchers can use the SPRIworks system to automate library preparation for the [...]

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