Cologne, Germany, and Singapore,: AyoxxA Biosystems, an international biotechnology company, today announces it has closed a 2.6 million Euro Series A financing round. The round was led by Wellington Partners Venture Capital and included NRW.BANK, HTGF – High-Tech Gründerfonds, and private investors, Rainer Christine and Dr. Gregor Siebenkotten, both formerly executive board members and co-founders […]

Cologne, Germany, and Singapore,: AyoxxA Biosystems, an international biotechnology company, today announces it has closed a 2.6 million Euro Series A financing round. The round was led by Wellington Partners Venture Capital and included NRW.BANK, HTGF – High-Tech Gründerfonds, and private investors, Rainer Christine and Dr. Gregor Siebenkotten, both formerly executive board members and co-founders […]

Cambridge, MA — GnuBIO www.gnubio.com announced today that it has been awarded a $4.5 million Phase II SBIR grant over the next three years through the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) Advanced DNA Sequencing Technology Program. After a rigorous process, the grant committee at the NIH chose six projects to fund for this competitive […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced it was awarded a contract from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide the agency with MiSeq sequencing systems and reagents for conducting whole genome analysis on produce and produce-related environmental Salmonella and shigatoxigenic E. coli isolates. The contract is worth up to $17 million […]

FREMONT, Calif., — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBS) announced today the award of a 1 million Euro matching grant by the Luxembourg government to expand its European operations, headquartered in Luxembourg. The first tranche of 350,000 Euros is expected to be received this quarter and will defray start-up and personnel costs. WaferGen has started to […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. –– Station X Inc., a company dedicated to simplifying the analysis and visualization of genome-scale data in clinical and research settings, today announced the closing of a second round of equity financing led by Runa Capital, an international venture capital firm. The $5 million round also included follow-on commitments from existing investors […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the pricing of a series of its senior notes in an aggregate principal amount of $400 million, in an underwritten, registered public offering. The notes will mature in October 2022 and will bear interest at an annual rate of 3.20 percent. The offering is expected to close on […]

SAN DIEGO, — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other considerations, $100.0 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2017 (the “Convertible Notes”) in a private offering. Sequenom also intends to grant to the initial purchasers of the Convertible Notes a 30-day option to […]

LANCASTER, Calif.– Simulations Plus, Inc. ( SLP ), a leading provider of consulting services and software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today released preliminary revenues for its fourth fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2012, ended August 31, 2012 (4QFY12), and for the entire fiscal year 2012 (FY12). Ms. Momoko Beran, chief financial officer of Simulations […]