Industry
Qiagen Adds New Licenses to Molecular Diagnostics Portfolio
Qiagen announced that it has acquired licenses from Roche, as well as from Ortho Clinical Diagnostics. These two license agreements significantly expand Qiagen's rights to real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for use in in vitro diagnostics (IVD). Financial terms were not disclosed. More...27 Feb 2007
Magnisense and Indicia Announce Joint Testing Platform
Magnisense, a developer of next generation immunoassays for human and animal diagnostics, food safety, and environmental protection, announced the availability of a platform for customers in the diagnostics industry to test systems based on Magnisense's Miatek technology. The platform has been developed within a partnership with Indicia Biotechnology, an immune technology specialist.More...
27 Feb 2007
Sequenom Acquires Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnostic Rights
Sequenom, Inc. has acquired exclusive rights in territories including the United States, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan as well as non-exclusive rights in China to non-invasive prenatal diagnostic intellectual property. More...20 Feb 2007
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Argos Therapeutics Wins NIH Contract for Personalized Immunotherapy
European Commission Funds Development of Patient-Friendly Endoscopy System
Vaccine Designed to Shield AIDS Carriers
Consortium to Study the Genetics of Lead Pollution in India
Dade Behring Signs License Agreement for Coagulation Test
Cepheid and bioMerieux to Collaborate on Sepsis Assays
Rockeby Secures License for Pre-eclampsia Diagnostic Test
Use of Aptamers Expands in Treatment of Human Diseases
Almac Diagnostics Enters License Agreement with GeneGo
Diagnostic Hybrids Enters Agreement With Microgen
diaDexus and Mayo Collaborate on Breast Cancer Diagnosis
PerkinElmer to Acquire Euroscreen Products
Schering-Plough and OraSure Technologies Sign Agreement
Ciphergen and Quest Develop Peripheral Artery Disease Diagnostic
Sequenom and Qiagen Target Prenatal Diagnostics
Biocurex to Collaborate With Moscow Research Center
Immunicon and Eisai Enter Biomarker Agreement
Luminex to Acquire Tm Bioscience
Journées Internationales de Biologie 2006
Axela Licenses Beckman's Universal Linker Capture Technology
Partnership to Develop Microchip for Diagnosing Metastatic Cells
Alliance to Develop Cancer Diagnostics
ALA Introduces Award at LabAutomation2007 Conference
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