Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany -– SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced that it has signed an initial distribution agreement for its first proprietary product with German BioCat GmbH. With this agreement, SYGNIS grants BioCat non-exclusive rights to promote, market, sell, and support TruePrime™ Single Cell WGA kit for the DNA […]

WILMINGTON, Mass.–– Kapa Biosystems, Inc. today announced that they have expanded their partnership with Roche NimbleGen to include new, optimized, RNA sample-preparation methods for targeted RNA next-generation sequencing (NGS) applications. Kapa Biosystems will custom manufacture versions of its KAPA Stranded RNA-Seq Kits for Roche NimbleGen to distribute with its recently launched SeqCap RNA Target Enrichment […]

Darmstadt, Germany -– Merck, a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products in the pharmaceutical, chemical and life science sectors, today achieved an important milestone in the process of acquiring U.S.-based life science company Sigma-Aldrich. The shareholders of Sigma-Aldrich approved the merger with Merck at a special meeting held at the Sigma-Aldrich Life Science […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) stockholders voted to adopt the previously announced merger agreement providing for the acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany at a special meeting of stockholders held earlier today. Sigma-Aldrich stockholders also approved, on an advisory, non-binding basis, compensation that may become payable to named executive officers as […]

Baylor College of Medicine and Agilent Technologies Inc. have teamed up to create the Agilent Techonologies Mass Spectrometry Center of Excellence at Baylor with a goal of advancing research and training in metabolomics. The new center will be a part of the Alkek Center for Molecular Discovery and the Baylor College of Medicine Core Laboratory […]

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and NEW YORK, NY, USA –– GE Healthcare Life Sciences(NYSE: GE) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced today the signing of a non-exclusive license agreement granting GE Healthcare Life Sciences access to intellectual property held by the Broad Institute relating to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene engineering system for research […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and HOUSTON, TX -– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Baylor College of Medicine, both known for their expertise in metabolomics, are working together to advance research and training in this vital branch of the life sciences. To that end, Agilent and Baylor have opened the Agilent Technologies Mass Spectrometry Center of […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), today announced that Sigma® Life Science, its innovative biological products and services business, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement for the use of CRISPR/Cas technology covered under patents held by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Under the agreement, Sigma-Aldrich is able to make, use and distribute […]

SAN DIEGO, NEW HAVEN, Conn. and SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Organovo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ONVO) (“Organovo”), a three-dimensional biology company focused on delivering breakthrough 3D bioprinting technology, and Yale School of Medicine, Department of Surgery have formed a collaboration to develop bioprinted tissues for surgical transplantation research, made possible by a generous gift from the […]

Goettingen, Germany — Recently, researchers found that the quality of cryotubes may affect the survival rates of embryos after freezing-thawing and that it thus is essential to examine the inside surface of the cryotubes for its smoothness before vitrifying embryos (1). Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., Japan, is a pioneer in plastics. Their Cryogenic Vials are […]