IP Group plc (LSE: IPO) (“IP Group” or “the Company” or “the Group”), the developer of intellectual property based businesses, is pleased to note that portfolio company Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited (“Oxford Nanopore”) has raised £35 million in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares. Oxford Nanopore, a spin-out company from the University […]

SAN DIEGO — BioNano Genomics announced today the purchase of an IrysTM System by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, one of the world’s leading genome centers, located near Cambridge, UK. The Sanger Institute made the largest single contribution to the gold standard sequence for the Human Genome Project and today is focused on the role […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA — GenoSpace, a precision medicine software company that has developed a comprehensive suite of tools to enable the broad use of genomic data in research and clinical care, today announced that it completed a financing with Thomson Reuters, the world leader in providing intelligent information for businesses and professionals. GenoSpace will use the […]

Alexandria, Minnesota, USA and Hoddesdon, UK -– Douglas Scientific and LGC announced today that they have formalized an exclusive distribution agreement for the sale of Douglas Scientific’s innovative Array Tape® Platform. Under the terms of this agreement LGC will represent and distribute the existing and future Array Tape laboratory automation platforms in Europe, Middle East […]

LA JOLLA, CA — Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy, high performance human life span, today announced it has signed an agreement with Celgene Cellular Therapeutics (CCT) to license, develop, and co-promote Celgene’s proprietary placental cell population, PSC-100. HLI has the option to […]

We would like to announce that Biognosys has licensed patent from the ETH Zurich for the N-glyco-capture technology. The technology was originally invented and patented by Prof. Ruedi Aebersold and colleagues at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. It enables selective enrichment of glycosylated proteins using a chemical method. Glycosylation is prevalent on proteins […]

De Pere, Wisconsin — Hamilton Scientific recently announced that it has acquired the assets of the laboratory business of Dancker, Sellew and Douglas (DS&D) based in Somerville, New Jersey. DS&D is a long-standing dealer partner for Hamilton Scientific. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company will be renamed Laboratory Solutions of the Atlantic […]

Matsudo, Japan – Precision System Science, Co., Ltd. (PSS) has agreed with Roka Bioscience, Inc., (Roka) on an OEM Agreement for developing automated molecular diagnostics system and disposables which are used with the instrument. According to this agreement, PSS will develop and manufacture the fully automated molecular detection system. “We, both PSS and Roka, understand […]

ReproCELL was established as a venture company originating from the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University and has been the pioneer in the iPS cell business, succeeding in the commercialization of the world’s first human iPS cell products in 2009 and with the world’s most advanced research and technology. Through the acquisitions of Reinnervate Limited […]

SYDNEY & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & LA JOLLA, Calif.– The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, DNAnexus, and AllSeq, today announced that they are sponsoring free access to the world’s first publicly available datasets generated using the Illumina HiSeq X Ten DNA sequencing platform. The goal for this project is to provide researchers with sample data […]