OMAHA, Neb., April 7 -- Transgenomic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TBIO - News), a leading global biotechnology company, announces that it has completed a licensing option with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA with regard to a method known as Cold-PCR. This variation of the standard PCR technology enriches mutations in samples where normal DNA [...]

Laboratory Already Offers Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) NextGen Testing ELMWOOD PARK, N.J.--BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRLI) announced today that it is now offering next generation sequencing testing for Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) conditions through its GeneDx laboratory. GeneDx is the first commercial laboratory in the country, possibly the world, to offer clinical testing based on next generation [...]

April 7, 2009. Fayetteville, Arkansas – The National Science Foundation has announced that it has awarded a $500,000 grant to Northwest Arkansas-based SFC Fluidics to support development of the company's ePump® technology. This is the third $500,000 dollar grant the company has received from NSF this year. ePump® is a unique and innovative pumping system [...]

Johns Hopkins Proteomics Center is ready to apply state-of-the-art methods and develop new approaches to investigate the proteomics of adaption to ischemia and hypoxia, a biological process of genera relevance to heart, lung and blood diseases. For Immediate Release VICTORIA, BC Canada/EWORLDWIRE/April 7, 2009 --- GenoLogics announced today the Technical Implementation and Coordination Core (TICC) [...]

AB SCIEX 5800 System Sets New Standard to Translate Biomarker Discovery Into Applications for Personalized Medicine CARLSBAD, Calif.--Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies (NASDAQ:LIFE), and its mass spectrometry joint-venture partner, MDS Analytical Technologies, a business unit of MDS Inc. (TSX:MDS) (NYSE:MDZ), today introduced the AB SCIEX TOF/TOF™ 5800 System, the fastest, most sensitive MALDI-based [...]

Study Results Show Improved Sensitivity for Detecting Low-Prevalence Resistance Variants When Compared to Traditional Methods BRANFORD, Conn.--A study published online last week in the Journal of Infectious Disease reports that ultra-deep sequencing has the ability to identify low-frequency hepatitis B virus (HBV) drug-resistant mutations in infected samples, including mutations undetected by standard direct PCR sequencing [...]

TADM Lab Analyzer Supports Sample Chain of Custody Procedures Reno, Nevada (April 7, 2009) - Hamilton Robotics introduces the TADM (Total Aspiration and Dispense Monitoring) Lab Analyzer for MICROLAB® STAR and STARlet liquid handling workstations. Made possible through a collaboration with Apartis Information Management, this new software solution enhances the usability of TADM data from [...]

SUNNYVALE, CA--(April 7, 2009) - Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC), a proprietary life sciences technology leader, announces a new research collaboration with The Parkinson's Institute of Sunnyvale, California to discover biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. This unique study involves the prospective collection of samples from well-characterized Parkinson's patients combined with Arrayit's new H25K microarray technology. The first [...]

Company Expands Presence in EU to Meet Rapidly Growing Demand SAN CARLOS, Calif.--NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a leader in nucleic acid sample preparation announced today it has named Dr. Lutz Kirchrath to serve as managing director of European field operations reporting to Dr. Sue Pandey, vice president of field operations. Dr. Kirchrath will lead both sales [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Helicos BioSciences (Nasdaq:HLCS) today announced the release of transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) datasets on the HeliSphere™ Technology Center (https://open.helicosbio.com), the company’s open access Web site for sharing Helicos datasets and bioinformatics software tools. Helicos’s amplification and ligation-free approach virtually eliminates the creation of false-positive splicing and fusion events, frequently observed in other RNA-Seq datasets. Helicos™ [...]