digital PCR

A research team led by Carl Hansen of the University of British Columbia's Centre for High-Throughput Biology has developed an integrated microfluidic device for high-throughput digital PCR analysis of single cells.

Scientists from Hungarian pharmaceutical development firm Avidin and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences have combined digital PCR on Life Tech's OpenArray platform with patch-clamp recording to enable exact quantification of gene expression and correlate it to phenotypic data in i

Bio-Rad executives said this week that first-quarter sales of the firm's digital PCR platform and related products increased year over year, helping to drive approximately 1 percent year-over-year and 2.5 percent sequential growth in the company's Life Science segment.

Through its planned $13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies announced this week, Thermo Fisher Scientific stands to become the market leader in quantitative, real-time PCR research tools and reagents and DNA-based forensics and human identification.

Researchers from Italy's University of Genoa and other institutions have produced unpublished early data suggesting that digital PCR assays run on Life Technologies' recently launched QuantStudio 3D platform may be useful in measuring HER2 copy number in borderline-amplified breast cancer

Star Array, a spinout of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, has developed a microfluidic liquid-phase nucleic acid purification chip that can selectively isolate DNA or RNA from low numbers of cells in minute sample volumes, and subsequently PCR amplify the purified nu

Bio-Rad this week reported record revenues of $204.2 million for its Life Sciences segment in the fourth quarter driven by strong sales of nucleic acid amplification reagents, process media, and sales of its QX100 digital PCR system and associated products, company executives said.