FREMONT, Calif. — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WGBS) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of units for gross proceeds of $15 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company. The offering was priced at a public offering price of $1.00 per share of common stock (or […]

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Luxendo, a start-up company launched by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and its technology transfer arm EMBLEM Technology Transfer (EMBLEM) in Heidelberg announced today the closing of a EUR 6 Million Series A financing co-led by EMBL Ventures, Heidelberg and Life Science Partners (LSP), Amsterdam. Dr Stefan Herr, Partner at […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ultivue, an early stage life sciences tools company, today announced the completion of $5.15 million in Series A financing from a group of investors including ARCH Venture Partners, Hansjoerg Wyss, and several private investors. Ultivue is based on DNA-PAINT and DNA-Exchange technologies developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at […]

NEW YORK, NY – Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) today announced that it has reached and finalized a settlement with Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) involving payment of $10 million to Enzo in an infringement action brought by Enzo regarding its U.S. Patent No. 7,064,197. Today’s settlement resolving the disputes between Enzo and Affymetrix impacts only one […]

BALTIMORE, MD – Circulomics Inc has been awarded a $1.5M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to develop its Ligo-miR microRNA assay platform. This award follows a previous $400k Phase I award and will create a comprehensive portfolio […]

Cambridge — Genestack, the developer of a next generation enterprise platform for genomics research and development, has secured £90,000 through an Innovate UK grant. The grant will see Genestack work alongside Rothamsted Research, a leading UK agricultural research institute, to expand their capabilities in agri-informatics, initially through a joint feasibility study. Agri-informatics is becoming increasingly […]

Ann Arbor, Michigan — From blood to food to medicine, cells are all around us. However, the current methods of separating those cells from their surroundings for research, diagnostics, and cell therapy—also known as cell sorting—can be time-consuming, costly, and damaging to the cells. To address this, Ann Arbor-based startup Akadeum Life Sciences is developing […]

FREMONT, Calif. — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (WGBS) today announced preliminary, unaudited revenue for the third quarter of 2015. The Company expects total revenue for the third quarter of 2015 to be in the range of $1.9 million to $2.1 million, which would represent an increase of 52-68% when compared to the $1.3 million reported for […]

SAN DIEGO — Silicon Biosystems, Inc.today announced that it was awarded a contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) to provide the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) with a DEPArray system for rare, single-cell isolation. The DEPArray system combines image-based cell selection withdielectrophoresis-based cell movement for identification and sorting of […]

BERKELEY, CA – Caribou Biosciences and DuPont jointly announce today that they have formed a strategic alliance designed to advance the two companies’ respective CRISPR-derived genome editing technology platforms. This multi-faceted agreement includes the cross-licensing of key intellectual property, a research collaboration, and financial investments by DuPont in Caribou, a developer of CRISPR-Cas technologies. Under […]