BD Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for New Immunological Diagnostic System

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., July 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the BD FACSLyric™ flow cytometer system, an easy-to-use in vitro diagnostic (IVD) system, for use with BD Multitest™ assays... Read more

Kailos Genetics Announces Strategic Investment and Partnership with In-Q-Tel

Partnership will further develop Kailos’ leading-edge next-generation sequencing solutions for the intelligence community July 11, 2017 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kailos Genetics, a personalized medicine company offering a leading-edge suite of tools for next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based assays, today announced a strategic partnership with and investment from In-Q-Tel, Inc. (IQT). IQT is the... Read more

FDA approves Rituxan Hycela (rituximab and hyaluronidase human) for subcutaneous injection in certain blood cancers

Basel, 23 June 2017 FDA approves Rituxan Hycela (rituximab and hyaluronidase human) for subcutaneous injection in certain blood cancers Treatment can be administered in five to seven minutes, compared to 1.5 hours or more for intravenous Rituxan* Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Rituxan... Read more

PacBio Technology Resolves Complex Maize Genome, Driving Demand for Other Large-Scale AgBio Sequencing Projects

MENLO PARK, Calif., June 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new publication in Nature reveals the significant quality improvement afforded by Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing for the maize genome, with implications for other complex crop and livestock genomes. This new PacBio® genome assembly, produced by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the USDA’s Agricultural Research... Read more

PacBio Technology Resolves Complex Maize Genome, Driving Demand for Other Large-Scale AgBio Sequencing Projects

MENLO PARK, Calif., June 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new publication in Nature reveals the significant quality improvement afforded by Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing for the maize genome, with implications for other complex crop and livestock genomes. This new PacBio® genome assembly, produced by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the USDA’s Agricultural Research... Read more

BD Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for New Line of Customizable, 3.0mm Micro-Laparoscopic Instruments

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., June 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that its new line of Snowden-Pencer™ 3.0mm laparoscopic ergonomic take-apart instruments received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for use in laparoscopic surgery. The new line of Snowden-Pencer 3.0mm laparoscopic... Read more