MUKILTEO, Wash., April 20, 2009 -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX - News) announced today that Dr. Karine Hovanes has joined its wholly owned subsidiary, Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics (CMDX), as its Laboratory Director. Dr. Hovanes is a Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Genetics in Clinical Molecular Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics and is also licensed in [...]

DAYTONA, FL -- 04/20/09 -- 25th Clinical Virology Symposium -- Seegene's Seeplex® Meningitis ACE Detection test introduced today at the 2009 Clinical Virology Symposium brings a novel and fast-acting multiplex PCR diagnostic technique to simultaneously verify a complex range of pathogens that indicate meningitis, a severely debilitating infection that if not diagnosed and treated quickly [...]

New Application Module Enables Advanced Research on Living Cells SUNNYVALE, CA, April 20, 2009 – MDS Analytical Technologies, a leader in innovative solutions for drug discovery and life-sciences research, today announced the release of the ArcturusXT™ Live Cell Application Module, expanding the ArcturusXT™ laser-capture microdissection (LCM) instrument’s application potential for scientists interested in performing experiments [...]

Collaboration Designed to Accelerate Cancer Research DURHAM, N.C.--Expression Analysis, a leading provider of genomic services, and RainDance Technologies today announced a strategic collaboration designed to accelerate research into complex diseases. The collaboration will help characterize rare mutations that would otherwise prove difficult or impossible to identify using alternative methods. The companies are sponsoring a program [...]

QRSciences (ASX:QRS) (QRSNY:PK) is pleased to announce that it has accepted an offer from Helmsman Funds Management Limited as Trustee and Manager of Helmsman Capital Fund II (“Helmsman”) to provide expansion capital to fuel the Company’s continuing growth and to retire the existing Convertible Note debt with Trafalgar Capital Specialized Investment Fund (“Trafalgar”)(“Offer”). Under the [...]

FieldAlign and FieldTemplater Products Reach a Global Audience in Scistore Welwyn Garden City, UK – 17 April 2009 Cresset Biomolecular Discovery Ltd (Cresset), announces that their recent distribution agreement with CambridgeSoft© Corporation (Boston, MA) has led to a dramatic increase in the company’s sales pipeline. Under the terms of the agreement, CambridgeSoft sells Cresset’s powerful [...]

Tokyo, Japan, April 17, 2009—Tosoh Corporation today announced changes in its top management. Madoka Tashiro will step down as the Company’s chairman and CEO to become an executive adviser to the Company while remaining a member of the Tosoh Board of Directors. Takashi Tsuchiya will vacate the presidency of the Company to become Tosoh’s chairman [...]

Key placements prove growing market need for inkjet microarrayer platform April 17th 2009, Roslin UK: Arrayjet today announced that it had successfully installed a further four instruments in key microarray labs across North America during the past 12 months. The instruments in question, all Marathon or Super-Marathon Inkjet Microarrayers, were installed in prestigious laboratories: UHN [...]

LEXINGTON, Mass.--RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced the commercial sale of an RDT 1000 and Sequence Enrichment Solution to Expression Analysis, Inc., a leading provider of genomic services for clinical trials and research. The RainDance solution will enable Expression Analysis to expand its service [...]

Satoris, Inc. and RayBiotech, Inc. will cooperate to develop and commercialize an Alzheimer's blood test to detect Satoris proprietary plasma biomarkers using RayBiotech's quantitative antibody array platform. Redwood City, Calif. and Norcross, Ga., (PRWEB) April 16, 2009 -- Satoris, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company focused on developing blood-based tests for Alzheimer's disease, and RayBiotech, Inc., [...]