ALAMEDA, Calif. — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced that it has closed the equity financing it disclosed on October 3, 2014, through which BioTime received $29,425,961 and certain subsidiaries received approximately $1,558,905 from the sale of BioTime common shares. BioTime and the subsidiaries intend to use the net proceeds from their sales to […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the molecular genetics company, has won the Best Medtech Dealmaker award for the second year in a row at the Oxford Bioscience Network (OBN) awards held on Thursday 2 October. The award recognises OGT’s acquisition of Cambridge-based Cytocell Limited (Cytocell), a leading provider of DNA technology for the detection of gene […]

Leiden, The Netherlands — Dutch biotech MIMETAS B.V. announces that it has raised 5.2 million dollar to fund its expansion as a global leader in organ-on-a-chip technology. Venture capital investors Zeeuws Investerings Fonds (ZIF) and Participatiemaatschapij Oost Nederland (PPM Oost) have joined forces with national and regional partners to fund development and sales of MIMETAS’ […]

Uppsala, Sweden — Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, today announced the launch of its Gyrolab™ Protein A Kit for use on Gyrolab™ xP workstation. During purification of biotherapeutics, Protein A can leach from the chromatography support and co-elute with the therapeutic antibody product. The contamination complicates […]

Berlin, Germany, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Boulder, CO, USA — Marine toxins can have serious implications for both public health and the economy. As a result, routine monitoring for a number of recognized marine toxins in edible shellfish is a regulatory requirement in many areas worldwide. Animal-based assays have historically been used to indicate sample […]

Diploma PLC, the international group of businesses supplying specialised technical products and services, is pleased to announce the acquisition of 80% of Technopath (Distribution) (“TPD”). Put and call options have been included in the transaction to allow Diploma to acquire the outstanding 20% of shares over a period of up to 5 years. TPD is […]

Vista, CA — American Peptide Company, Inc. (APC) (Vista, CA) a leading peptide manufacturer, and GlyTech Inc. (Kyoto, Japan), a world-leading developer of glycosylated drugs, announced today that they have entered into a co-promotion agreement for GlyTech’s glycosylation technology. As part of the agreement, APC will leverage its sales and marketing resources to enhance GlyTech’s […]

WHAT:PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of its AlphaLISA® SureFire® Ultra™ assays. These solutions are designed to reduce assay time by up to 50 percent and to improve the protein phosphorylation detection process. This is critical for helping life science professionals […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) today announced that it has agreed to sell up to an aggregate of 9,431,398 common shares, in a registered direct offering at an offering price of $3.12 per share. The price per share was the closing price of our common shares on the NYSE MKT on October 2, […]

LGC has launched 110,000 new wet lab-validated KASP™ Genotyping Assays, which have been made available exclusively through its new, online KASP assay search tool. In the past decade LGC has run over a billion KASP genotyping PCR reactions in its service labs across the world. A central part of this work has been the validation […]