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Fluidigm Developing Quantification System Allowing Sequencing of Rare Samples

Fluidigm Corporation today announced a sample quantification system that allows researchers to sequence their libraries of rare samples and also dramatically lower costs, improve data quality and speed up time-to-results for scientists performing next-generation DNA sequencing.

From Standard BioTools 30 Mar 2009

Health Agency Verify Function of CombiMatrix's Influenza-Detection System

CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX), a diversified biotechnology business that develops proprietary technologies, including products and services in the areas of drug development, genetic analysis, molecular diagnostics, nanotechnology and defense and homeland security markets, announced today that the Agency for Health Protection and Promotion in Ontario, Canada has, during the 2007-2008 influenza season, verified the function of CombiMatrix's Influenza-Detection system.

From Invitae Corporation 30 Mar 2009

Molecular Assembly Line for Predictable, High-Precision Nano-Construction

Building on the idea of using DNA to link up nanoparticles - particles measuring mere billionths of a meter - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a molecular assembly line for predictable, high-precision nano-construction.

29 Mar 2009