The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Continues Scale Up with Order for 11 Additional Illumina Genome Analyzers

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has purchased 11 additional Genome Analyzers, increasing the organization’s total number of the Illumina sequencing platform to 37. The continued scale up on the Genome Analyzer will support the Sanger Institute’s many initiatives, such as its contribution to the 1000 Genome Project, which requires [...]

Illumina Launches Infinium HD Human660W-Quad BeadChip for Advancing Copy Number Variation Analysis Studies

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today unveiled a new product for DNA Analysis: the Infinium® HD Human660W-Quad BeadChip. This four-sample BeadChip features 2.6 million genetics markers and was developed in collaboration with The Centre for Applied Genomics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom. The [...]

The MathWorks Opens Office in Bangalore, India

The MathWorks, the world’s leading developer of software for technical computing and Model-Based Design, today announced the opening of a new office in Bangalore, India, that will be responsible for selling and supporting the Company’s MATLAB and Simulink product families throughout the country. The new office will enable The MathWorks to provide direct support and [...]

RainDance Technologies Introduces Sequence Enrichment Solution

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today officially introduced its Sequence Enrichment Solution for targeted sequencing applications of the human genome. RainDance unveiled the solution at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Philadelphia, Penn. “The RainDance Sequence Enrichment Solution [...]

TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Launches New Stratagene Gradient Cycler at American Society for Human Genetics Conference

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) announced today it has launched a new thermal cycler, the high-performance Stratagene Gradient Cycler. The new instrument broadens Agilent’s PCR product line and gives researchers access to a complete workflow solution for end-point PCR from a single supplier. PCR is a fast and inexpensive technique used to amplify or copy small [...]

OncoMethylome Sciences licenses methylation technologies to Qiagen for commercializing epigenetic applications for the scientific research market

Liège, Belgium - November 12, 2008, 08.00 CET - OncoMethylome Sciences (Euronext Brussels: ONCOB, Euronext Amsterdam: ONCOA) announced today that it has signed a world-wide, non-exclusive license agreement with QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA). Under this agreement, QIAGEN has licensed certain of OncoMethylome's methylation technologies for use in certain of QIAGEN's future products. [...]

Provista Life Sciences (PLS) Announces Initiation of the BT Test(R) Validation Study in the United Kingdom

Provista Life Sciences LLC (PLS) announced today that the National Health System’s Ethical Committee approval has been granted to proceed with a validation study of its Biomarker Translation Test (BT Test) in the United Kingdom (UK). The BT Test, a new blood test developed by Provista Life Sciences to aid healthcare providers in early breast [...]

Applied Biosystems Provides New Analytical Tools for Short Read De Novo Assembly on SOLiD(TM) 3 System

Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) today announced during the 58th Annual American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Meeting that it has expanded its suite of application-specific bioinformatics solutions to include de novo assembly of small organisms on the SOLiD 3 System, the company’s high-performance next-generation sequencing platform that enables the comprehensive analysis of genomes, transcriptomes and [...]

zNose(R) Detects Melamine in Milk Powder in Record Time

NEWBURY PARK, Calif.--Electronic Sensor Technology (EST) (OTCBB:ESNR), a leading provider of innovative homeland security and environmental solutions, announced it has developed a procedure for detecting melamine in milk powder using the fast zNose®. Dr. Teong Lim, Chairman and CEO, reports that a method for detecting and measuring melamine without the need to derivatize or modify [...]

Bruker Daltonics Announces Installations of maXis(TM) UHR-TOF Mass Spectrometers in Top-tier Pharmaceutical and Academic Laboratories

BILLERICA, Mass.--Nov. 12, 2008--Bruker Daltonics announced today that the first production run of its ultra-high resolution time-of-flight (UHR-TOF) mass spectrometer maXis(TM) has been delivered to customers. The revolutionary maXis high-performance system was introduced at this year's American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference in Denver, and has now been successfully installed in a number of top [...]

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