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RainDance Technologies this week announced it has added a high-precision chromosomal copy number variation measurement application to its RainDrop Digital PCR system.

Biotec Pharmacon of Tromsø, Norway, has been awarded US Patent No. 8,551,753, "Method of removing nucleic acid contamination in reverse transcription and amplification reactions."
Olav Lanes, Morten Elde, and Dag Rune Gjellesvik are named as inventors.

BG Medicine this week reported second quarter revenues of $1 million, up 62 percent from $622,000 in the second quarter of 2012.

Researchers testing a prototype of a Roche next-gen sequencing assay to measure drug resistance in HIV patients recently reported that the test's performance was comparable to Siemen's TruGene assay, which uses real-time PCR and Sanger sequencing and is approved by the US Food an

Siemens has been awarded US Patent No. 8,352,195, "Methods and systems for identifying PCR primers specific to one or more target genomes."
Lance Palmer, Daniel Fasulo, Lujia Chen, and Gayle Wittenberg are named as inventors.

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics this week introduced its new Innovance Free Protein S Antigen assay for free protein S antigen testing.

NAME: Toumy Guettouche