Bedford, MA –– Rapid Micro Biosystems, a leading provider of automated, non-destructive, rapid microbial detection for quality control testing within the pharmaceutical and personal care products market segments, today announced that it has raised $32.6 million in series B financing. The funding will be used to expand the commercial and manufacturing operations in support of […]

Fledgling spin-out company Drop-Tech has turned to microfluidics specialist Dolomite for its product development and fabrication skills to help productize the advanced and innovative Robo-¬Drop™ technology into the Mitos Dropix, a droplet-on-demand sampler that is set to make it easy to produce extremely miniaturized droplet compartments with excellent control over their contents. Access to this […]

WOBURN, MA (USA) and SINT-MARTENS-LATEM (BELGIUM) — PathoGenetix, Inc., developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial identification, and Applied Maths, NV, a leader in bioinformatics and analytical solutions for public health and research laboratories, have signed a collaborative agreement to integrate the RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System with the BioNumerics™ software suite. The end-to-end automated […]

SEATTLE, Wash. – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5.4 million shares of common stock at a price to the public of $10.00 per share. In addition, the Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day […]

Woodinville, Washington — Plexera® LLC, a world leader in high throughput label free technology, announced today the launch of the Lectin Array Chip for high throughput glycoprofiling and biomarker discovery. The Lectin Array Chip leverages the PlexArray® HT’s high throughput, label-free, SPRi platform for rapid characterization and quantification of glycosylation in protein samples. Dysregulation of […]

UVP, LLC now offers the ChemiDoc-It®TS2 Imager software with multiple language options. English is the standard language format of the software and users can select from Chinese (simplified), Turkish, Japanese, Spanish, Korean and Russian for all screen text and buttons. “The language offerings will assist researchers in expediting and simplifying the image acquisition capabilities of […]

PathoGenetix, Inc., a commercial-stage developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial strain typing, announced today that John A. Luckey, Ph.D., M.B.A., has joined the company as Vice President of Engineering. Dr. Luckey will lead technology development and integration for the company’s RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System. The fully automated RESOLUTION System, which includes the benchtop […]

Bonn, Germany –– SAW Instruments, developer of the innovative sam® family of biosensors for real-time, label-free biomolecular interaction assays, is continuing to advance acoustic wave biosensor technology with the sam®X platform. Based on SAW’s Surface Acoustic Wave technology, the biosensors measure changes in mass and viscoelasticity at the chip surface based on changes in the […]

Biacore™* T200 Software v.2.0 enhances the capabilities of Biacore T200, offering researchers a flexible and powerful tool for efficient processing of molecular interaction data. Together, they facilitate label-free screening of low molecular weight compounds and low abundance proteins, giving detailed binding profiles on molecule-drug candidate mechanisms of action that ultimately assist in earlier lead selection […]

Tokyo, – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and NEC New Zealand carried out a field trial with the Institute of Environmental Science & Research Limited (ESR) to evaluate NEC’s Portable DNA Analyzer that is currently under development. This Analyzer extracts and analyzes human DNA for personal identification purposes. This evaluation of the Portable DNA Analyzer, […]