CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA – Knome, Inc. and Personal Genomics, s.r.l., Verona, Italy, announced an exclusive sales alliance for Knome’s knoSYS™ platform in Italy and a scientific partnership for continued development of the platform’s tools, content, and applications. Knome offers the fully integrated knoSYS platform for the management and interpretation of human genome sequence data. The […]

BERWYN, Pa. and MIDDLEFIELD, Conn. — AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) and Zygo Corporation (NASDAQ: ZIGO) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which AMETEK will acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Zygo at a purchase price of $19.25per share in cash, which represents a premium of 31% […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA –– GnuBIO, a privately-held life sciences company that has developed a droplet-based DNA sequencing technology, today announced that it was acquired by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. With this acquisition, Bio-Rad will expand its Digital Biology Center and establish a research and development site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GnuBIO has developed a DNA sequencing solution that […]

WILMINGTON, MA – Morpho (Safran), through its subsidiary Morpho Detection, today announced a contract with JetBlue Airways for 14 handheld MobileTrace® explosive trace detectors (ETD). Under terms of the contract, MobileTrace will be deployed this year to meet enhanced U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) passenger screening mandates for U.S.-bound flights from select JetBlue global locations. […]

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced a new non-exclusive, preferred distribution agreement for Western Europe with VWR a global provider of laboratory supplies, equipment and services. The contract includes a range of EMD Millipore products and reagents for chemical and microbiological analysis, which are mainly […]

VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France — Dassault Systèmes FR:DSY +1.59% (euronext paris:#13065)(euronext paris:DSY.PA), the 3D EXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions announces the extension of the tender offer by its wholly owned indirect subsidiary, 3DS Acquisition Corp., to purchase all outstanding shares of Accelrys, Inc. ACCL […]

BALTIMORE, MD – InstantLabs® announced today that the company has entered into an agreement with the University of Guelph to co-develop a portfolio of DNA-based seafood species identification tests to combat marketplace seafood fraud by providing rapid, definitive proof that seafood is correctly labeled. InstantLabs plans to launch the kits within four months. Recent studies […]

LEXINGTON, Mass. – N-of-One, Inc., the leading provider of clinical interpretation for precision medicine in oncology, today announced an agreement with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH to provide clinical interpretation for Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Next-Generation Sequencing tests as part of Norris Cotton Cancer Center’s comprehensive molecular diagnostics and treatment program. Financial terms of the agreement are […]

Schlieren, Switzerland and Kyoto, Japan — InSphero AG and Dainippon SCREEEN (Kyoto, Japan) announced today they have reached a distribution agreement for InSphero to begin marketing Dainippon’s Cell3iMager in North America and Europe. Dainippon selected InSphero based on their in-depth know-how pertaining to 3D microtissue biology and applications. The Cell3iMager is fully compatible with InSphero‘s […]

Minneapolis – Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), d/b/a Bio-Techne, announced today that it has made a $10 million equity investment in CyVek, Inc. (CyVek), with a commitment to acquire CyVek if certain future milestones are met. CyVek has developed a transformative immunoassay technology, CyPlexTM, which integrates an innovatively designed microfluidic cartridge with a state-of-the-art analyzer to […]