Unique technology portfolio enables design space characterization, effective translation to the large-scale and enhanced process analytics Goettingen, Germany / Aubagne, France —Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, has developed an innovative and fully integrated technology platform to meet the requirements of today’s upstream bioprocessing. It will allow customers to adopt […]

WARREN, N.J. — Roka Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKA), a molecular diagnostics company focused on providing advanced testing solutions for the detection of foodborne pathogens today announced the appointment of Mary Duseau as President and CEO.  Ms. Duseau succeeds Paul Thomas, the Company’s President and CEO since 2009, who will assume the position as Chairman of the […]

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial availability of its new kits that provide an easier method to identify and quantify genetic information in individual cells for genomics-based research. The process of whole transcriptome analysis (WTA) is typically used by researchers in […]

Diagenode reinforces collaboration with the Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) for the development of a DNA amplification method for NGS library preparation Denville, NJ and Liege, Belgium Diagenode, a leading global provider for complete solutions for sample preparation and epigenetics research, recently announced a collaboration with the Heidelberg University Hospital […]

InDevR’s access to FDA’s front-line monoclonal antibodies ensures responsive potency assay for influenza vaccines BOULDER, Colo.–InDevR, a Boulder-based progressive analytical technology and life science instrumentation company, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to license monoclonal antibodies from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This agreement enables InDevR to consistently manufacture and […]

AutoGen FlexSTAR+ systems installed at ‘All of Us’ Research Program Biobank With 35 million biospecimens, the cohort biobank will be one of the world’s largest AutoGen, Inc., a leading provider of nucleic acid extraction equipment, announced today that they have installed 13 of their newest, most advanced automated DNA extraction solutions, the FlexSTAR+, to be used […]

VALIDATE® SP2, with RF, addresses the growing demand by laboratories for a product to document calibration verification / linearity of their testing system Cumberland Foreside, Maine LGC Maine Standardsis pleased to announce the addition of Rheumatoid Factor (RF) to its VALIDATE® SP2 calibration verification / linearity test kit. VALIDATE® SP2 evaluates Albumin, C-reactive protein, Haptoglobin, […]

MENLO PARK, Calif., and BEIJING — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB) and Novogene Corporation, a leading provider of genomic and bioinformatic services, today announced that Novogene has agreed to purchase 10 Sequel™ Systems for whole genome sequencing, Iso-Seq™ annotation and targeted sequencing services. PacBio’s sequencing systems are based on its unique Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) […]

HERCULES, CA — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO) and (NYSE:BIO.B), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase RainDance Technologies, Inc. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bio-Rad expects the transaction to close during the first quarter of […]

LGC, the international life sciences and measurement company, announces the launch of Hydrocycler2, the next generation water bath thermal cycler. The Hydrocycler2 combines throughput, efficiency and robust design to offer an effective alternative to traditional Peltier-based thermal cyclers. The multi-bath system allows labs to process more than 145,000 samples in an eight-hour day. This next model in […]