Luminex, a biotechnology company, has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European approvals for a new personalized medicine genotyping assay, xTAG CYP2C19 kit. xTAG CYP2C19 kit is a comprehensive genotyping assay that ...
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Ventana Medical Systems,a member of the Roche Group, and pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) have entered into a collaboration agreement for the development of companion diagnostic tests for BI oncology programs. Companion ...
Life science company Factor Bioscience has received the first patent for the reprogramming cells using RNA from the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), which is widely used in biological research and personalized medicine. Factor ...
Roche Group member Genentech and Astellas Pharma US announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Tarceva (erlotinib). The tablets are used for the initial treatment of people with metastatic non-small cell lung ...
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The ALS Emergency Treatment Fund (ALS-ETF) and Denovo Biomarkers (Denovo) have entered into partnership to explore using Denovo's technology to identify potential responder groups for drugs that are being studied in patients suffering from ...
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM) at University of Warsaw in Poland, has selected IBM Blue Gene/Q, a single architecture supercomputer, to support the country's biomedical and biotechnological ...
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There will come a day in the not-so-distant future when physicians take a back seat in healthcare, and where patients will have the mobile tools to diagnose, and in some cases, treat themselves. That was the summation of a keynote speech ...
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The UK biotechnology and personalized medicine company Epistem has received Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) accreditation for its contract research division's histology and immunohistochemistry (IHC) laboratories. The contract ...
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The USFDA has accepted for filing Astellas Pharma's supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets for a genetically distinct form of advanced lung cancer. Astellas is seeking approval to use Tarceva as the ...
Reedy Acquisitions has agreed to buy South Carolina-based laboratory operations of Lab21,which provides diagnostic products and services. Supporting blood bank screening,medical diagnostics and drug discovery services,Lab21's products ...
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Molecular diagnostic cancer assays developer Predictive Biosciences has named Pierre Cassigneul as the company's new chief executive officer (CEO). Prior to joining the company, Cassigneul served as board vice chairman and president and ...
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Applied Spectral Imaging has introduced a new version of GenASIs,a comprehensive cytogenetic and pathology imaging platform. The new Version 7.2 of GenASIs combines fluorescent and bright-field pathology analysis with ...
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Volcano has announced positive results from a ADAPT-DES IVUS sub-study, which demonstrated that stent procedures guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) reduces stent thrombosis and myocardial infarction (MI) as well as improve patient ...
Quintiles has completed the acquisition of Expression Analysis, a provider of genomics testing and analysis to biopharma, academic, government and non-profit customers. The acquisition will enable Quintiles' customers to use genomic ...
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The biotechnology and personalized medicine company, Epistem, has gained CE mark for its in vitro diagnostic medical device (CE-IVD), Genedrive Tuberculosis (TB) test. Epistem said the registration enables to place its TB test and ...
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