Assay Designs(TM), Inc. Announces Release of First Available Product for Multiplex Analysis of Heat Shock Proteins

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Assay Designs, Inc., a leading provider of immunoassay kits, antibodies, and reagents to the life science and translational research markets, has announced the release of the first commercially available multiplex assay dedicated to the analysis of heat sho...

Intrinsic Bioprobes, Inc. Enters into a $1.27M Contract with the National Cancer Institute to Develop Multiplex Mass Spectrometric Immunoassays for Detection of Low Abundance Cancer-Related Proteins

TEMPE, Ariz., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Intrinsic Bioprobes, Inc. today announced the start of a contract with the National Cancer Institute to develop effective technologies for accurate measurement of cancer-related proteins and peptides that improve diagnostic capabilities by effectively discern...

Xceed Molecular Grants Gen-Probe License to Xceed's Flow-Thru Chip(R) Technology for Multiplex Molecular Diagnostics

WELLESLEY, Mass., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Xceed Molecular, a pioneer in the development of cost-effective, easy-to-use gene-expression analysis systems, has granted Gen-Probe Incorporated (Nasdaq: GPRO ) and its affiliates a non-exclusive license to use Xceed's novel Flow-Thru Chip technology....

Development of a Multiplex Bead-Based Assay for Antibody Screening of a Nonhuman Primate Colony on the Bio-Plex System

LaRene Kuller, David Anderson, Dominic Andrada, and Richard Grant, National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA Introduction We have been using four separate enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) ...

Principles of Curve Fitting for Multiplex Sandwich Immunoassays, Rev B

Diana Davis, PhD, Aiguo Zhang, PhD, Chloe Etienne, Ivan Huang, and Michele Malit, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547 USA Introduction Bio-Plex cytokine assays are bead-based multiplex sandwich immunoassays....

Correlation of Bio-Plex Suspension Array Reader Validation With Multiplex Cytokine Assay Performance, Rev A

Chloe Etienne, Allan Gandy, Diana Davis, and Aiguo Zhang, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547 USA Introduction The Bio-Plex suspension array system is an integrated system consisting of hardware, so...

Real-Time Multiplex PCR from Genomic DNA Using the iCycler iQ Detection System

Faye Boeckman, Larissa Tan, Marni Brisson, Rob Park, and Keith Hamby, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., 2000 Alfred Nobel Dr., Hercules, CA 94547 Introduction When researchers need to measure the amount of RNA or DNA in a preparation, they t...

QIAGEN Multiplex PCR Kit

The QIAGEN Multiplex PCR Kit is designed for highly specific and sensitive multiplex PCR without the need for time-consuming optimization Features and benefits No optimization required easy assa...

Fully automated DNA purification and efficient multiplex PCR for analysis of microsatellite loci

Marion Schmidt, Holger Engel, Markus Sprenger-Hauels, Corinna Kppers, Gaby Schulte, Silke Zobel, and Dirk Lffert QIAGEN GmbH, Hilden, Germany Microsatellites highly polymorphic DNA markers comprised of nucleotides ...

QIAGEN Multiplex PCR Handbook

For fast and efficient multiplex PCR Contents Kit Contents Shipping Conditions Storage and Stability Technical Assistance ...

Mx4000 Multiplex Quantitative PCR System*,PPP

New System for Improving QPCR Stratagene has improved upon currently available QPCR machines with the Mx4000 multiplex quantitative PCR system. This new system offers better performance and functionality at a more economical price. Real-time qu...

DNA Software, Inc. Awarded $2.5 M in NIH Funding to Develop Pioneering Nucleic Acid-based Technologies

...leic acids with exception accuracy. Visual OMP™ is a platform program for the design, simulation, and analysis of probes/primers, RT-PCR, qPCR, multiplex PCR, Taqman, Beacons, Scorpions, Microarrays, SNP detection, FRET assays, RNAi, LATE-PCR, plus new formats. OMP Developer EditionTM (OMP DE™) b...

First Catalog Cancer Biochip for Sequence Capture Now Available from febit

...f febit's cancer biochips. A 2Mb exon cancer biochip will be available this summer and a 30Mb biochip is planned already for release in 2010. multiplex NGS studies based on sequence capture can be supplemented by other molecular fingerprinting methods, including mRNA and miRNA expression profiling. Bo...

Rules-Based Medicine, Inc. Launches DiscoveryMAP(TM) Service for Drug and Diagnostic Development

...prietary ex vivo testing systems such as TruCulture(TM), the first fully-closed, reproducible whole blood culture system. RBM is actively developing multiplex diagnostic tests to detect the presence of complex diseases and conditions in areas of unmet medical need such as neuropsychiatry, nephrology, immunol...

Xceed Meets HTX/CIHR Grant Milestone: Decreasing Sample-Prep Time From Days to Less Than Eight Hours

.... About Xceed Molecular ( www.XceedMolecular.com ) Xceed's vision is to advance molecular diagnostics by successfully translating novel multiplex tests into routine clinical practice and to create robust diagnostic solutions to improve disease outcomes. Our products comprise the award-winning Zi...

Caprion Proteomics Inc. and Applied Bioystems Work Together to Accelerate Protein Biomarker Verification and Validation

...MRM assays can be developed within a matter of weeks and enables the quantitative parallel tracking of large numbers of biomarker candidates through a multiplex high-throughput format. This technique, therefore, has the potential to unlock significant value from the scores of genomics, proteomics and other bi...

BD and Fujirebio Diagnostics Sign Worldwide Agreement to Develop Biomarker Assays to Improve Cancer Detection and Management

...bio Diagnostics' cancer biomarkers for use on BD's multiplex testing platform. The initial products will be di...ts other cancer biomarkers for inclusion in future multiplex diagnostic products. "BD is investing in the...ancer care. We believe that biomarker testing in a multiplex format can provide clinicians with a powerful tool...

DNA Software, Inc. Honored as One of the 2009 "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch"

...leic acids with exception accuracy. Visual OMP™ is a platform program for the design, simulation, and analysis of probes/primers, RT-PCR, qPCR, multiplex PCR, Taqman, Beacons, Scorpions, Microarrays, SNP detection, FRET assays, RNAi, LATE-PCR, plus new formats. OMP Developer EditionTM (OMP DE™) b...

Cepheid Announces Symposium Speakers and Program Highlights for 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)

...tests for the routine detection of Clostridium difficile infection Dr. Andrej Weintraub, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm: Comparison of a multiplex real-time PCR and the cytotoxicity neutralization assay for the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infections Dr. Jim Gray, Senior Microbiolo...

Catching the lightwave: Nano-mechanical sensors 'wired' by photonics

...ted sensitivity." Tang's paper also details the construction of a sensor multiplex a parallel array of 10 nano-cantilevers integrated on a single photonic wi...e, so when one is displaced it registers its own distinctive "tone." "A multiplex format lets us make more complex measurements of patterns simultaneously l...

Cynosure Launches New Workstation and Technology Innovations at American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting

...uring. Elite MPX: Built-In Zimmer Cooling Technology Ensures High Level of Patient Comfort Elite MPX incorporates Cynosure's proprietary multiplex technology, which sequentially fires two wavelengths for more effective treatments than single-wavelength systems. A completely new software system r...

Lafayette General Medical Center is the First Hospital in Louisiana to Use Genetic-Based Technology to Test for Respiratory Disease

...se respiratory infectious diseases. This technology, called Target Enriched multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (Tem-PCR), allows physicians to test for multiple...Diatherix operates as an independent clinical laboratory providing advanced multiplex molecular diagnostic services such as Tem-PCR to identify infectious diseas...

FDA Approves Most Comprehensive System to Test Donated Blood for HIV, Hepatitis B & Hepatitis C

...he highest blood safety," said Daniel O'Day, head of Roche Molecular Diagnostics, the business area of Roche Diagnostics that developed the test. "Our multiplex test has been widely adopted and has demonstrated excellent performance in blood centers worldwide. We are pleased to introduce it in the U.S. as we c...

Diagnoplex Closes CHF10 Million ($8.3 Million) Series A Financing

...ts unique and proprietary molecular platform capabilities, Diagnoplex develops blood-based cancer diagnostics. Diagnoplex' single-channel quantitative multiplex reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (scqmRT-PCR) yields the quantification of copy number obtained with real-time PCR, and allows quantify...

Decision Biomarkers Inc Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board

...rs to our SAB", said Roger Dowd, President and CEO of DBI. "We look forward to their expert guidance to enable us to realize the full potential of our multiplex immunoassay technology for drug development". About Decision Biomarkers Inc Decision Biomarkers is a privately-held life science tools company that ha...

Technical Note: E-PAGE(TM) 48- and 96-Well Gels on the Odyssey(R) Infrared Imaging System

...condary Antibodies and the Odyssey Infrared Imaging System. IRDye antibody conjugates are available in two spectrally-distinct wavelengths; therefore, multiplex detection can be accomplished, increasing the number of analytes to as many as 192; alternatively, one of the wavelengths can be used for normalizatio...

ALine, Inc. Expands Management, Adding Roger Anderson, Ph.D., as VP of Operations

... platform permits rapid prototyping, custom development, and volume fabrication of sophisticated self-contained fluidic devices suitable for unique or multiplex single use applications. The ability to incorporate numerous channels and functions, such as pneumatically actuated valves, in polymer laminate device...

RainDance Technologies Delivers RDT 1000, Sequence Enrichment Solution to The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

...plets enabling the amplification of hundreds to thousands of genomic loci in a single tube. The RainStorm format avoids the limitations of traditional multiplex hybridization and amplification technologies. RainDance's solution minimizes process-induced bias or error and requires only a few micrograms of genom...

Assay Designs(TM), Inc. Announces Agreement with Abnova Corp. of Taiwan

...t and quantify molecules that are important in inflammation, cell signaling, and cellular stress. New assay platforms include MultiBead(TM) bead-based multiplex immunoassay kits and ImmunoSet(TM) ELISA development reagents. About Anbova Corporation Abnova is a bio-tool proteomic company specializing in aut...

RainDance Technologies Delivers RDT 1000, Sequence Enrichment Solution to JCVI

... droplets enabling the amplification of hundreds to thousands of genomic loci in a single tube. The RainStorm format avoids limitations of traditional multiplex hybridization and amplification technologies. The RainDance solution minimizes process-induced bias or error and requires only a few micrograms of gen...

James L. Wittliff, Ph.D., FACB, to Present 'Predicting Breast Cancer Outcome with Gene Expression Signatures on the Ziplex(R) System' at the Association for Molecular Pathology Conference, October 30

...gies. About Xceed Molecular (http://www.XceedMolecular.com ) Xceed's vision is to advance molecular diagnostics by successfully translating novel multiplex tests into routine clinical practice and to create robust diagnostic solutions to improve disease outcomes. Our products comprise the award-winning Zi...

Xceed Ziplex(R) System for Automated Gene-Expression Analysis Wins 2008 R&D 100 Award

...ites. About Xceed Molecular (http://www.XceedMolecular.com ) Xceed's vision is to advance molecular diagnostics by successfully translating novel multiplex tests into routine clinical practice and to create robust diagnostic solutions to improve disease outcomes. Our products comprise the Ziplex System fo...

LI-COR Adds Four New IRDye(R) Infrared Dye Antibodies to its Product Line

... Anti-Chicken IgG, IRDye 680 Goat Anti-Rat IgG, and IRDye 800CW Goat Anti-Rat IgG antibodies are highly cross-absorbed delivering high specificity for multiplex detection for multiple applications including quantitative Westerns, In-Cell Westerns, and in vivo small animal imaging. IRDye(R) infrared dye antib...

Xceed Molecular to Launch New Inflammation Xpress Chip(TM)for the Ziplex(R) Automated Gene-Expression Analysis System at Clinical Lab Expo 2008, Booth 2155

...ions. About Xceed Molecular (http://www.XceedMolecular.com ) Xceed's vision is to advance molecular diagnostics by successfully translating novel multiplex tests into routine clinical practice and to create robust diagnostic solutions to improve disease outcomes. Our products comprise the Ziplex(R) System...

Xceed Molecular Features Ziplex(R) Automated Gene-Expression System at the Biomarker World Congress, Booth 16

...throughout the conference (Poster #11). About Xceed Molecular Xceed's vision is to advance molecular diagnostics by successfully translating novel multiplex tests into routine clinical practice and to create robust diagnostic solutions to improve disease outcomes. Our products comprise the Ziplex(R) System...

Cynosure Introduces Smartlipo MPX(TM) Dual Wavelength Workstation for LaserBodySculpting(SM)

...ne the benefits of the 1064-nm and 1320-nm wavelengths in one laser output. multiplex technology enables the workstation's two wavelengths to be blended, or fire...Smartlipo MPX in a "Best of Hot Topics" panel discussion. "By virtue of the multiplex component, Smartlipo MPX emits the wavelengths individually or sequentially...

Cepheid Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Results

...pidly treat and prevent sepsis caused by infection. Both products utilize a multiplex molecular protocol for potentially avoiding clinically false-positive MRSA ... All systems now feature six-color optical capability that enables enhanced multiplex capabilities in a single cartridge. The systems also now feature software t...

Decision Biomarkers Launches System for Faster, Easier Quantification of Protein Biomarkers

...for introduction later this year including a 10-plex angiogenesis panel and multiplex cardiovascular panel. DBI is also developing biomarker panels with customiz...widespread adoption of protein biomarker analysis with the first automated, multiplex immunoassay system that can be used in real-time by virtually anyone, anywh...

Nanotechnology innovation may revolutionize gene detection in a single cell

...l the tiles apart from each other. Each probe can be distinguished by its own bar code, so we mixed them together in one solution and we used this for multiplex detection, said Yan. The group uses a powerful instrument, atomic force microscopy (AFM), which allows the researchers to image the tiles at the singl...

Primera Biosystems Raises $21 Million in Series B Private Round

...), a market-ready assay for the simultaneous quantitative measurement of multiple viral agents that cause infections in immune compromised patients. A multiplex fungal test will follow. These assays will permit rapid, efficient and quantitative measurement of pathogens and will help choose the appropriate ther...