Company Provides Guidance for 2011 SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced preliminary revenue for the fourth quarter of 2010 of approximately $260 million. This implies fiscal year 2010 revenue of approximately $901 million or annual growth of 35%. The company also announced preliminary non-GAAP earnings per share for the fourth quarter and fiscal [...]

LAKE FOREST, Ill. & NEWTON, Mass. - IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Microfluidics International Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: MFLU) for $1.35 per share, net to the seller in cash, and subject to adjustment as provided in the merger agreement. The transaction is expected [...]

An Integrated Workstation for High-Throughput Target Enrichment Integrating advanced automation, liquid handling with Agilent SureSelect XT workflow - Agilent Automation Solutions has created a fully optimized and validated high throughput target enrichment solution. SureSelect XT combines next generation sequencing library preparation and gDNA preparative reagents with the proven SureSelect target enrichment system. This, together with [...]

HOUSTON - SeqWright Inc., a world-wide leader in custom genomic and molecular biology services, continues to make significant strides to position itself as the Next-Generation Sequencing Provider of choice for 2011. SeqWright's ongoing success can be attributed to the company’s ability to respond quickly to customer’s demands and by investing in key genomics technologies. Building [...]

New Innovations Lower Costs and Simplify Workflows CARLSBAD, Calif. - Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced a series of new product innovations across the company’s DNA sequencing portfolio. To date, most sequencing technologies have primarily addressed the needs of researchers in the highest throughput laboratories, limiting widespread accessibility of these powerful next-generation sequencing technologies. [...]

Biomarker Assay Services in Drug Development Rockville, MD - Expression Pathology Inc. announced an agreement with Roche (SIX:RO, ROG; OTCQX:RHHBY) wherein Expression Pathology will provide its Liquid Tissue®- SRM Technology to accelerate identification of cancer molecular markers for developing more effective treatments. Under the terms of the agreement, Expression Pathology will support Roche oncology drug [...]

New Benchtop Evaporator Removes Even Highest Boiling Point Solvents Genevac has launched the EZ-2 Elite - a new addition to its popular EZ-2 evaporator range. The EZ-2 Elite is designed to remove high boiling point solvents and deliver enhanced solvent recovery thereby improving final drying of stubborn samples and enabling fast lyophilisation of HPLC fractions. [...]

Seamless Integration of MSDS Management with Inventory System Can Significantly Reduce MSDS Management Burden and Costs ChemSW, Inc., the leading provider of chemical inventory management systems, and 3E Company, the world leader in chemical, regulatory and compliance information services, are pleased to announce a joint technology agreement and the release of 3E MSDS Management for [...]

LabLogic’s new Model 5 Beta-RAM radio-HPLC on-line flow detector and Laura 4 radio-chromatography software are fully optimised for low flow applications and therefore give ‘greener’, less-is-better performance. In the on-going debate about ‘green’ radio-chromatography, there is much disagreement about what exactly reduces the environmental impact of the process; but there is at least no disputing [...]

Two global technology leaders to provide most advanced tools available in laser-based imaging for biomedical research MELVILLE, N.Y. - Nikon Instruments Inc., an innovator of advanced optical instruments, today announced an agreement with Agilent Technologies, the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications, for distribution in [...]