AUSTIN, Texas and MINNEAPOLIS — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) andBio-Techne Corp (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced the signing of a new distribution and supply agreement through 2020. This agreement extends the relationship between the two companies for immunoassay development and commercialization of Bio-Techne biological content using the Luminex testing platform. Furthermore the agreement allows Bio-Techne to […]

Berkeley, CA, Boston, MA, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Robert Stanley, CEO of IO Informatics, Inc. (“IOI”, www.io-informatics.com), announced IOI’s membership in The tranSMART Foundation and Mr. Stanley’s election to the Foundation’s Board of Directors. “We are delighted to be a part of the tranSMART community. Many of our customers in the pharmaceutical and clinical / translational […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced it has entered into an exclusive agreement with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to manufacture and distribute the Sanger Institute’s arrayed lentiviral CRISPR library. The library will be the first of its kind, providing researchers with a collection of individual clones designed to knock out every […]

Billerica MA – Axsun Technologies announced that it has been successfully divested from Volcano Corporation, a subsidiary of Royal Philips, and acquired by Anzu Partners, an investment firm based in Washington DC. As part of the transaction, Axsun received a significant infusion of growth capital and an affiliate of Anzu Partners purchased the 65,000 square […]

Oxford, UK: Genomics plc (“Genomics”), a leading analysis company developing algorithms and software solutions to uncover the relationships between genetic variation and human disease, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Oxford University and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in a research project focused on the translation of whole […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass.– Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” and the “Company”), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure cycling technology (“PCT”)-based sample preparation solutions to the worldwide life sciences industry, today announced a collaborative research and development agreement with Florida International University (“FIU”). The major goal of the agreement is […]

LGC is delighted to have been appointed as TraitGenetics’ Global Distribution Partner for its array based SNP genotyping services. The agreement permits TraitGenetics to keep direct links to many customers while extending its reach especially to customers outside of Europe. This agreement will see LGC offer array based SNP genotyping (Illumina and Affymetrix) from TraitGenetics […]

Berlin, Germany, and Uppsala, Sweden – BioGenes GmbH, a global leader in host cell protein (HCP) assay development, and Gyros AB, a pioneer in miniaturizing and automating immunoassays at nanoliter-scale, announce a cooperation for use of BioGenes’ 360-HCP antibodies in Gyrolab™ CHO-HCP Kits 2-5. The four Gyrolab™ CHO-HCP Kits, which have been introduced recently, quantify […]

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — The 100,000 Genomes Project aims to sequence 100,000 whole genomes from approximately 70,000 people. Participants are NHS patients in the UK with certain types of cancer or with rare disease, as well as their families. The initiative will bring together an unprecedented depth of clinical and genomic information to improve prediction and […]

Santa Clara, Calif. and Austin, Texas – Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) and Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced a distribution agreement under which eBioscience, a business unit of Affymetrix, will sell Luminex’s MAGPIX®, Luminex® 200™ and FLEXMAP 3D® multiplexed assay platforms in specified countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Affymetrix will sell the Luminex […]