ST. LOUIS – Appistry, a leading provider of solutions that simplify the analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, announced that it has entered into a partnership with Washington University in St. Louis. Appistry will integrate the VarScan software, developed at the university’s McDonnell Genome Institute, for variant detection in massively parallel sequencing data with the […]
London – Foresight Group (“Foresight”) has supported the management buyout (“MBO”) of Agar Scientific Limited (“Agar” or the “Company”) from its current parent, Elektron Technology PLC with an investment of £1.9m. Agar is a leading manufacturer and distributor of scientific laboratory equipment, with a focus on electron microscopy consumables. Founded in 1981 by Alan Agar, […]
Vienna and Grambach/Graz, Austria, – Evercyte GmbH, the leading provider of immortalized human primary-like cells and VTU Technology, the globally acting protein expression expert announced today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement on the development of recombinant media supplements for cell culture applications. The first conjointly developed recombinant product – Vascular Endothelial Growth […]
Goettingen, Germany – Sartorius Stedim Biotech, an international leading supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, and WuXi Biologics today announced the opening of their Joint Laboratory in Shanghai, marking an exciting new stage in their long-term cooperation. The Joint Laboratory has been established to enhance China’s position in the global R&D of novel biologics and to […]
Kraków, Poland – Ardigen, a bioinformatics company combining bio-data science and complementary advanced software support, is providing bioinformatics and software development services to EpiBiome, a precision microbiome engineering company based in California, US. The scope of collaboration focuses on improving analyses dedicated to microbiome profiling, which includes work on the algorithms and databases dedicated to […]
The University of Florida and TESCAN, a leading manufacturer in electron microscopy, have partnered to create a world-class hardware security lab customized with advanced scientific instrumentation. The lab will be part of the new Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research, which operates on the UF campus under the leadership of co-directors Patrick Traynor and Mark Tehranipoor, […]
Palo Alto, California – PrimeNano announced the addition of Bruker’s Nano Surfaces Division as a distributor of our ScanWave™ module for their extensive line of atomic force microscopes (AFM). PrimeNano’s ScanWave™ is a stand-alone module for atomic force microscopes (AFMs). It enables high resolution imaging of the permittivity and conductivity of materials at the nanoscale. […]
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and UPPSALA, SWEDEN – GE Healthcare Life Sciences continues to invest in Uppsala. The company signs a two-year collaboration agreement with Uppsala BIO. The goal is to find technologies and equipment that support the production and processing of biopharmaceuticals in the future. “Although we are a large, international company, it is […]
FREMONT, Calif. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS), a publicly held genomics technology company (“WaferGen”), and Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. (“TBUSH”), today announced that they have entered into a merger agreement pursuant to which TBUSH will acquire WaferGen. TBUSH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc. (TSE: 4974), […]
TUCSON, Ariz., – HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq:HTGM), a provider of instruments and reagents for molecular profiling applications, announced a research collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) to evaluate the potential for immuno-oncology molecular profiling in multiple tumor types. The collaboration between HTG and Bristol-Myers Squibb will utilize the next generation sequencing (NGS)-based HTG EdgeSeq […]
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