31 Current news of Roche
rss04-21-2011
Roche announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the cobas HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Test which identifies women at highest risk for developing cervical cancer. This test will help physicians make early, more accurate decisions about patient care, which may prevent ...
07-02-2010
Roche and IBM announced an agreement to develop a nanopore-based sequencer that will directly read and decode human DNA quickly and efficiently. Focused on advancing IBM’s recently published “DNA Transistor” technology, the collaboration will take advantage of IBM’s leadership in ...
06-30-2010
caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced that it has successfully completed a research collaboration with F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland. Under the collaboration research agreement, caprotec used its proprietary CCMS (Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry) technology to analyze the binding ...
03-29-2010
Roche NimbleGen announced that Frank Pitzer has been appointed as CEO. Dr. Pitzer’s extensive background and experience of over eight years at Roche will be instrumental in guiding the company through its next stage of growth. With his successful track record in several key management ...
03-15-2010
Roche Diagnostics has purchased assets from BioMicro Systems for all products associated with the Roche NimbleGen microarray workflow. These assets consist of key instrumentation in the Roche NimbleGen microarray workflow. Also included in this purchase are array accessories covering all ...
11-26-2009
Roche and the Department of Health of Junta de Andalucía, Spain have signed an agreement for a cooperation in the Medical Genome Project (MGP), a research project created to analyse the genomes of people with rare diseases and identify the defective gene or genes causing the disease and its ...
11-02-2009
Scientist from a consortium of Norwegian marine and aquaculture institutions announced that they have generated the first ever draft sequence and assembly of the Atlantic cod genome. The results, presented at the GenoFisk meeting in Oslo, Norway, include a high-quality genome assembly and ...
10-23-2009
Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Roche Diagnostics GmbH. Under the agreement KINAXO's phosphoproteomics technology PhosphoScout® will be applied to support the identification of biomarkers related to new treatment approaches based on ...
09-21-2009
QIAGEN announced that it has acquired additional licenses from Roche and Idaho Technology related to the use of instrumentation and reagents for PCR-based molecular testing. Financial details were not disclosed. The agreements cover thermal cycler rights and real-time polymerase chain ...
Sequencing Genomic Regions Associated with Psychiatric Disease
08-03-2009
454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, and Roche NimbleGen, both units of Roche Applied Science, have announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company and SeqWright. The goal of this collaboration is to use genomic technologies to identify genetic variants possibly associated with various ...
