Promega Launches PowerPlex® 16 HS System MADISON, Wis.--Promega announces a new 16-locus STR system that makes it possible to get complete profiles from inhibited DNA samples. Forensic samples are very often compromised by substances like dirt, fabric dyes or blood. Analyzing these samples with the STR products currently available can mean inconclusive results. The robust [...]

MUKILTEO, Wash., March 12, 2009 -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX - News) announced today that it has received a four year contract for $858,298 from NASA's Ames Research Center to design and test a microfluidic system that incorporates CombiMatrix's semiconductor microarray as part of an integrated genetic analysis platform that can be deployed in satellites. Funding [...]

MILL VALLEY, Calif.--BioCision LLC, a leader in advanced temperature management of biomedical samples, announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with VWR International, LLC, a global laboratory supply and distribution company. The agreement broadens BioCision’s access to markets in the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia, for its line of temperature management [...]

New Differential Scanning Calorimeters Feature Proprietary Design Capable of Accurately Simulating Material Processing Conditions Pittcon 2009 CHICAGO--PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today introduced a new line of high performance differential scanning calorimeters (DSC) designed to improve accuracy, sensitivity and performance in thermal analysis, a [...]

Intuitive software will allow researchers at the College's Genomics Centre to explore diverse data sets in an instant Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has today announced that the Genomics Centre, a core research facility at King's College London, has chosen to use the Qlucore Gene Expression Explorer for advanced data [...]

Genovis, a producer of new technologies used for Transfection, RNAi, Imaging and Antibody Engineering by life science researchers in industry and academia, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Biozym. Sarah Fredriksson, Chief Executive Officer of Genovis, said "We are excited about the opportunity this distribution agreement presents for Genovis, it will [...]

Roche NimbleGen announces Sequence Capture services now available through a partnership with SeqWright, a world-wide leader in custom genomic and molecular biology services. SeqWright will provide targeted resequencing services which couple Roche NimbleGen’s Sequence Capture microarray technology with SeqWright’s existing 454 Sequencing services on the Genome Sequencer FLX system. The addition of NimbleGen Sequence Capture [...]

Mar 12, 2009, PLEASANTON, CA. Arcxis Biotechnologies, a privately held biomedical device firm, today announced a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel to accelerate availability of the Arcxis nucleic acid sample preparation platform and diagnostic consumable product line. In-Q-Tel is the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the [...]

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--ADMEcell, announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Advancell, Barcelona, Spain, to manufacture and distribute the CacoReady™ System for the North American market. The CacoReady™ System is a new, innovative tool designed to optimize the time and costs of evaluating the intestinal absorption of compounds. The kit has been designed to [...]

Innovative approach allows for identification and assignment of functionally corresponding regulatory sequences throughout different eukaryotic genomes Genomatix Software, a company with an outstanding track record in the analysis of genomic data generated by high throughput technologies, announced today that it was issued patent No. EP 1 800 232 B1, "Identification and assignment of functionally corresponding [...]