North Sutton, NH – Labsphere, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of goniophotometers to its light measurement product line. As part of a cooperative agreement with UL Verification Services Inc. of Northbrook IL, Labsphere will now promote and sell high quality Type C goniophotometers, a product which completes the company’s full range of IES […]

Stockholm, Sweden – Tecan and Attana AB have announced an extended distribution agreement under which Tecan will distribute Attana’s label-free biosensor instruments and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) assay technology in Europe. This collaboration covers the Attana 100, Attana 200 and Cell 200 instruments, as well as biosensors and assay reagents, service and support, extending the […]

Blacksburg, Virginia – Intrexon Corporation, a privately held synthetic biology company, today announced the formation and launch of its Cell Engineering Unit (CEU) in San Diego, CA. The new unit will be under the leadership of the company’s Chief Science Officer and Founder, Thomas D. Reed, Ph.D. As part of the launch, Intrexon simultaneously announced […]

CapMan Russia, a leading Russian private equity fund managed by CapMan, has acquired a 29% share in a Russian laboratory analytical equipment manufacturer Lumex Instruments. With operations in Russia, the CIS, China, the European Union, the USA and Canada, the company aims at becoming the leading player in its field globally. In the coming years, […]

BOZEMAN, Mont. & DURHAM, N.C.–Golden Helix, Inc. and Expression Analysis (EA) today announced their collaboration to develop an affordable and streamlined, cloud-based analytic solution that reduces the barriers to adoption of RNA sequencing. RNA-Seq is becoming the tool of choice for gene expression studies, as it can facilitate the investigation of phenomena beyond the reach […]

ATHENS, Greece–Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced a strategic collaboration with The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. to offer new assay, study management and analysis software solutions that improve R&D efficiency and productivity for biopharmaceutical organizations engaged in early-stage screening through ADME, DMPK, pharmacology and in vivo experimentation. Under […]

Ipswich, Mass. and Ann Arbor, Mich. – New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) and Rubicon Genomics jointly announce that they have signed a distribution agreement whereby NEB will distribute a product that uses Rubicon’s proprietary amplification technology to enable the amplification of DNA from single cells or extremely low amounts of input DNA. The Single Cell […]

ATHENS, Greece–Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced its agreement with SCYNEXIS, Inc., to market and sell the SCYNEXIS Hit Explorer Operating System (HEOS) for comprehensive drug discovery information management. This reseller agreement is the next phase of the ongoing partnership between Accelrys and SCYNEXIS that is enabling a […]

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the USA today report the discovery of low frequency variants in the human genome that associate with risk of gout, a common inflammatory arthritis, and serum uric acid levels. The study was done in collaboration with Illumina, Inc., […]

Washington DC – QuantaLife, one of the nation’s most promising life sciences companies, was purchased this week by Bio-Rad Laboratories for $162 million – marking another successful exit for Paladin Capital Group. Paladin helped nurture QuantaLife from a tiny startup with a great idea to a dynamic company that is helping to accelerate the search […]