Landmark Study in New England Journal of Medicine Shows HPV Testing Significantly Reduces Deaths from Cervical Cancer, Compared to other Methods Including Pap

QIAGEN donates one million tests to expand access to HPV screening in the world's poorest countries Venlo, The Netherlands - April 1, 2009 - Results from an eight-year trial involving more than 130,000 women published today in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrate that in low-resource settings a single round of HPV testing [...]

U.S. Court of Appeals (CAFC) Rejects ThirdWave/Hologic’s Anti-Trust Claims Against QIAGEN

GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 1, 2009 -- QIAGEN Gaithersburg Inc. (formerly Digene Corporation), a wholly-owned subsidiary of QIAGEN N.V. (NasdaqGS:QGEN - News) (Frankfurt:QIA.F - News) today announced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) denied an appeal by ThirdWave Technologies Inc. (``ThirdWave'), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hologic, Inc. (NasdaqGS:HOLX - News) and affirmed [...]

ChemImage and Next Breath Structure Partnership to Validate Bioequivalence Testing for Nasal Spray Suspensions

Testing Will Help Advance Technology to Find a Faster, More Accurate and Repeatable Method for Drug-Particle Sizing PITTSBURGH, April 1 -- ChemImage, (www.chemimage.com) today announces a strategic research partnership with Next Breath, LLC (www.nextbreath.net), a leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) to further validate ChemImage's Raman Chemical Imaging for bioequivalence applications for nasal spray suspensions. Baltimore, [...]

Parabon NanoLabs Established to Revolutionize Nanotechnology Field with “Designer Macromolecules” Built from Grid-Optimized Sequences of DNA

Frontier Grid Platform Powers inSçquio Sequence Design Studio to Provide Breakthrough CAD Capabilities for Nano-engineered Products RESTON, Va.--Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale grid computing software and services, announced today the spin-off of Parabon NanoLabs, a subsidiary dedicated to designing and producing breakthrough products at the nano-scale. The company will initially focus on developing [...]

Seegene Announces Licensing Agreement With Randox

ROCKVILLE, MD and ANTRIM, UNITED KINGDOM--(March 31, 2009) - Seegene, Inc. and Randox Laboratories today announced that they have entered into an agreement in which Randox will obtain a non-exclusive license to Seegene's Dual Priming Oligo (DPO™) technology to develop high-throughput diagnostic screening panels capable of simultaneously detecting a wide variety of infectious pathogens that [...]

chemagic 8 – a lab in a box

(PA) Baesweiler, March 31st 2009, the chemagen AG, Germany, introduces the chemagic 8, a customized solution for the entire laboratory workflow process. This particular lab in a box facilitates primary sample handling via Nucleic Acid isolation to diagnostics and storage with minimized hands on time in a fully automated way – that´s the chemagic AID. [...]

Rosetta Biosoftware Licenses the Syllego™ System to Stanford University

SEATTLE--Rosetta Biosoftware today announced that Stanford University has licensed the Syllego™ system for the management and analysis of genetic data produced by the GENEticS of Insulin Sensitivity (GENESIS) consortium. GENESIS researchers in the Quertermous lab at Stanford University will use the Syllego system to support genome-wide association studies (GWAS) targeted at the genetic mechanisms underlying [...]

New Lab Reactor combines versatility, ease-of-use and productivity…

Radleys have announced the introduction of Lara Lite™ - a manually Controlled Lab Reactor (CLR) that eliminates the need for multiple reaction set-ups, saving space, money and making your synthesis more productive. Lara Lite includes a dedicated speed control box with LCD display. This push button speed control box provides electronic control from 70 to [...]

VisualSonics to Sell Mauna Kea Technologies’ Cellvizio(R) LAB on a Worldwide Basis to Animal Imaging Market

PARIS and TORONTO, March 31 - Mauna Kea Technologies and VisualSonics today announced that they have entered an exclusive distribution agreement through which VisualSonics will market and sell Cellvizio LAB high resolution in vivo imaging systems to pre-clinical researchers on a worldwide basis. Cellvizio LAB provides researchers with a new way to understand physiological phenomena [...]

FEI Introduces the Fibermetric System for Automated Measurement and Analysis of Micro- and Nano-fibers

The Fibermetric system delivers statistically valid data in minutes to improve fiber and filter material development and manufacturing Hillsboro, Ore./March 31, 2009―FEI (Nasdaq: FEIC), a leading provider of electron imaging and analysis systems, today announced the Fibermetric™ system powered by the Phenom™ personal electron microscope. The Fibermetric system is designed to discover and quantify the [...]

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