WALTHAM, Mass. — PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to provide JLABS @South San Francisco (JLABS @SSF), a newly-opened life science incubator, with instruments and lab services to address the research needs of resident startups. […]

RADNOR, Pa. — VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, announced today the expansion of its distribution agreement with New England Biolabs®, Inc. (NEB®). This agreement allows VWR increased access to NEB’s growing product portfolio and renowned technical support in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. In addition, customers will […]

EMERYVILLE and LOS ALTOS, Calif. — Amyris, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMRS), an industrial bioscience company, andGenome Compiler Corp., a synthetic biology platform company, have entered into a collaboration agreement to integrate Amyris’s automated lab services with Genome Compiler’s online design tools and e-commerce platform to enable users to design and order DNA or other biological products seamlessly. […]

Framingham, MA, Darmstadt, Germany — SCIEX announced today a research collaboration with Labor Berlin, the largest clinical laboratory in Germany, for the development of a hybrid Quadrupole Time-of-Flight (TOF) MS/MS reference library of relevant forensic chemical compounds. The library will cover thousands of chemical substances, allowing users of SCIEX TripleTOF® 6600 mass spectrometers for forensic […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. -? LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (LifeMap), a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today a commercial partnership agreement with Toldot Genetics, LTD (Toldot), a subsidiary of BATM Advanced Communications, Ltd. LifeMap’s GeneCards Suite, comprised of the company’s integrated biomedical knowledgebase and premium analysis tools, will optimize Toldot’s next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis capabilities by […]

Recent collaboration among scientists at Genentech, Inc., and Fluidigm Corporation demonstrated that SNP profiling performs comparably to STR profiling for cell line authentication and contamination detection. Many journals identify labor-intensive STR profiling as a requirement for publication, yet SNP profiling has proven a better alternative, offering equivalent-quality results in less time at a better price. […]

MARCO ISLAND, Florida, and REDWOOD CITY, California -– A coalition of 13 leading life science and diagnostics organizations today announced the formation of the Allele Frequency Community, a landmark initiative that is creating an extensive, high-quality and ethnically diverse collection of human genomes to address a key challenge in interpreting sequencing data for research and […]

Bishops Stortford, UK — Dotmatics, the leading global informatics solutions provider to the pharma, biotech, chemical and academic industries announced today that it has joined the Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance of Life Sciences organisations that work together to lower barriers to innovation in R&D. The Pistoia Alliance was initially formed by major global […]

Santa Clara, CA — Park Systems, world-leader in Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) announced today they have signed a Joint Development Project (JDP) with nanoelectronics research center imec, to develop in-line AFM metrology solutions of future technology nodes including but not limited to surface roughness, thickness, critical dimension (CD), and sidewall roughness. The JDP will develop […]

Roche has announced the acquisition of Signature Diagnostics AG (Signature), a privately held company based in Potsdam, Germany. Signature is a translational oncology and genomics company that develops large blood plasma and tissue biobanks in multiple cancers, including colorectal and lung, which are constructed from multicenter prospective clinical studies. Signature uses the samples from its […]