PENZBERG, Germany--The Cancer Genomics Group at Barts and The London Medical School is researching leukemia with the aquisition of the state-of-the-art Genome Sequencer FLX System paired with the Roche NimbleGen Sequence Capture arrays. Researchers, led by Professor Brian Young, will use the combined technology of 454 Sequencing and NimbleGen Sequence Capture Arrays to uncover the [...]

Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS™ Recognized for Driving Better Business Decisions at AstraZeneca PHILADELPHIA — (July 8, 2008) — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that it is the winner of a Microsoft Corporation 2008 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation category. The award honors [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced it has acquired Particle Sizing Systems, a privately held company that designs and manufactures instruments that measure the particle size and stability in materials ranging from soft drinks to inkjet inks to semiconductor polishing slurries. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expands Agilent’s growing portfolio of [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 8 -- Accuri Cytometers Inc., a life sciences company developing revolutionary bench-top flow cytometer systems, today announced the completion of a $13 million Series C financing led by Fidelity Biosciences and Flagship Ventures. Current investors including Baird Venture Partners and Arboretum Ventures also participated in the financing. Accuri will use the [...]

BALTIMORE--Ameritox, Ltd., the U.S. leader in pain prescription urine drug monitoring, today announced its addition of the industry’s most advanced, most sensitive analytical method for detecting prescription pain medications: multiplexing liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Ameritox has implemented the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum Access™ triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with the Aria™ TLX-4 multiplexing system [...]

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., July 8 -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Keck Microarray Center at Yale has become a certified GeneGo Center of Excellence (COE). Yale researchers will have access to GeneGo's MetaCore, training and advanced support. The W. M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory (Keck Lab), one of [...]

Reagent Kits Will Strengthen Affymetrix' Diagnostic Product Portfolio SANTA CLARA, Calif. & AUSTIN, Texas--Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX - News) and Asuragen Inc., a leading molecular biology diagnostic company and service provider, today announced an agreement to license, develop and manufacture in vitro transcription (IVT) reagent kits for clinical molecular diagnostic applications. The new IVT reagent kits [...]

DANVILLE, Calif., July 8 -- BugLab LLC, has introduced the BugEye 200 Noninvasive Biomass Monitor, a novel biomass measurement system with the widest linear range of any such device currently available. It performs automated, continuous, real-time optical density (OD) measurements of biomass for fermentation and cell culture applications. The BugEye 200 is designed for use [...]

HER2 Gene Amplification Test Will Aid in Assessing Breast Cancer Patient Candidacy for Herceptin(R) Treatment CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen Corporation, (NASDAQ:IVGN - News), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval (PMA) for its SPOT-Light® HER2 CISH Kit, indicated as [...]

Partnership to provide expertise and applications support in plant biotechnology ST. LOUIS, July 8 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) and Metahelix Life Sciences today announced a partnership under which Metahelix will assist in developing applications data for Sigma-Aldrich's plant bioscience product line, and provide expert technological guidance regarding usage. The efforts of this collaboration will occur [...]