Salt Lake City – Tute Genomics announced that it has raised $1.5 million in Seed Round funding to further develop its advanced genome analysis software, allowing researchers to rapidly discover novel disease genes & identify predictive biomarkers. Investors in this round include Wilmington Pharmatech, Salt Lake Life Sciences Angels, Peak Ventures, Park City Angel Network, […]

WILMINGTON, Mass. — Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today it recently shipped a mixture of QS-B220 and QS-H150 explosives trace detectors against a $3,500,000 purchase order the Company had announced on July 18, 2013. The total value of systems shipped […]

Boston, MA — Curoverse announced today the company has raised $1.5 million to accelerate development of the Arvados free and open source software platform for genomic and biomedical big data and to deliver new products based on the platform. Arvados is a computational storage platform designed for the biomedical industry. The first deployment of Arvados […]

WILMINGTON, Mass. Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB:IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today it has sold over $600,000 worth of its QS-B220 and QS-H150 explosives trace detectors (ETDs) to customers across five different continents. The handheld and desktop ETDs, which offer the benefit of not using […]

Genovis has been granted SEK 1 million in research support from VINNOVA (the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) to explore a method for online process control in conjunction with manufacturing of the biological drug, mAbCHECK. The project, which is being carried out in collaboration with CapSenze, runs until 2016. Pharmaceutical companies have a constant need […]

Columbia, MD – -W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE: GRA) announced today that the Australian Patent Office has granted a patent related to the company’s REVELERIS® flash chromatography system. The patent concerns the use of Evaporative Light Scattering Detection (ELSD) with flash chromatography, which is a key component of the REVELERIS® flash chromatography system. The […]

Franklin Lakes, NJ – The Board of Directors of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX) has declared a quarterly dividend of 54.5 cents per common share, an increase of 5 cents per share, or about 10 percent, from the previous quarter. The dividend will be payable on December 31, 2013 to holders of record […]

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Editas Medicine, a transformative genome editing company, today announced it has secured a $43 million Series A financing led by Flagship Ventures, Polaris Partners and Third Rock Ventures with participation from Partners Innovation Fund. Following an explosion of high profile publications on CRISPR/Cas9 and TALENs, genome editing has emerged as one of […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its board of directors has authorized a new share repurchase program, effective upon the conclusion of the company’s existing $1 billion repurchase program. The new repurchase program is designed to reduce or eliminate dilution resulting from issuances of stock under the company’s employee […]