New Solution to Ease Bioinformatics Challenges Associated With Ultra High-Throughput Sequencing CARLSBAD, Calif.--Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE - News), and Geospiza, Inc. today announced the launch of a next-generation genetic analysis solution to meet the computational infrastructure and analysis challenges of customers using advanced genomic analysis platforms. The organizations are combining [...]

For flexible and fast High Content Analysis Chalfont St. Giles, UK, April 27th, 2009 – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has launched the IN Cell Analyzer 2000, a flexible cell imaging system for High Content Analysis with excellent image quality, speed and ease-of-use for all screening and research needs. The [...]

SAN CLEMENTE, CA--(April 27, 2009) - Micro Imaging Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: MMTC) announced that it has submitted its Final Report to the AOAC Research Institute (AOAC RI) for Performance Test Method™ certification for the MIT 1000 System's identification (ID) of Listeria species. This bacterium causes the serious food-borne infection Listeriosis, which is recognized as an [...]

AUSTIN, Texas--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX - News), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, today issued a follow-up statement to an announcement on Monday, April 27, 2009, confirming that the xTAG® Respiratory Viral Panel (RVP) assay has been demonstrated to be effective in surveillance of swine flu. Specifically, Luminex has verified through testing on confirmed swine [...]

InforSense Accelerates and Automates Diagnostic Biomarker Discovery London, UK and Cambridge, MA, April, 27th, 2009 – InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence solutions, today announced that Celera Corporation, a healthcare business delivering personalized disease management through a combination of products and services incorporating proprietary discoveries, is using InforSense to [...]

AUSTIN, Texas--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, announced today that it has performed computer-based sequence analysis of the U.S. swine flu patient isolates and compared them to the primer sequences of the Company’s xTAG RVP assay. In the interest of providing information to its customers and to public health labs, Luminex [...]

WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Biolab, the leading provider of analytical instruments, life science consumables and laboratory equipment for scientific, environmental and healthcare markets in Australia and New Zealand, for AUD $175 million (approximately USD $120 million). [...]

LILLE, France--At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences Conference today, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and their environment, announced a cellular imaging and analysis software relationship with Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services. The collaboration is aimed at providing researchers [...]

CUPERTINO, Calif.--NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data, today announced a licensing agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. NextBio offers the life sciences enterprise secure data access, knowledge discovery and collaboration tools, and enterprise integration capabilities for seamless correlation [...]

Enhancements Increase Flexibility and High-Content Screening Throughput SUNNYVALE, CA, April 27 - MDS Analytical Technologies, a leader in innovative solutions for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced at the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Conference and Exhibition 2009 in Lille, France, the availability of the MetaXpressPowerCore(TM) and MetaXpress® 3.0 image acquisition and analysis [...]