Leipzig, Germany — European Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking Conference -– Hamilton Storage Technologies, an affiliate entity of Hamilton Company, a leading provider in the design and manufacture of liquid handling, process measurement, robotics and storage solutions, and Askion, the partner for modular biobank system solutions to handle and store biological material at highest quality […]

Ebersberg, Germany — Merger of Eurofins Genomics and VBC-Biotech into Austria to further grow the business in Europe. Eurofins Genomics, the genomics division of the Eurofins Scientific Group and international market leader in genomic services, has now established its own subsidiary in Austria. Customers will be served directly through Eurofins Genomics AT GmbH located in […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass. — Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” or the “Company”) today announced the continued expansion of its global sales outreach with a three-year, exclusive distribution agreement with Powertech Technology Company Ltd (“Powertech”), headquartered in Xiamen, China. Powertech is one of China’s most recognized and prestigious distributors of analytical instruments and other equipment […]

SomaLogic, Inc., announced today that Novartis has extended its multi-year research agreement for the development and application of SomaLogic’s unique proteomics technology to Novartis’ drug discovery and development efforts. Novartis will also take an equity position in SomaLogic under the agreement extension. Under the previous collaboration agreement, scientists at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research […]

TORONTO and NEW YORK — Micromem Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) (CSE:MRM) (OTCBB:MMTIF) through its wholly owned subsidiary Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies Inc. (MAST), is pleased to announce that it has executed a Joint Product Development Agreement (“Agreement”) with Castrol innoVentures (“Castrol”). Castrol innoVentures (www.castrolinnoventures.com) is Castrol’s innovation & venturing arm. It seeks to invest in […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Affymetrix (NASDAQ:AFFX) announced today that it has exclusively licensed technology from Peptide Groove LLP that enables HLA typing of human samples from genotyping data generated from a variety of assays including the company’s Axiom® genotyping assays. The partners at Peptide Groove LLP developed HLA*IMP, the first HLA typing statistical imputation method […]

BILLERICA, Mass. & HUNTSVILLE, Ala.––RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company simplifying the analysis of complex genetics, today announced that the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is now a RainDance Center of Excellence, making it the latest premier reference site and service provider for RainDance products. HudsonAlpha is a nonprofit research institute committed to improving human […]

Tokyo and Gaithersburg -— Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation and OpGen, Inc., a leading genetic analysis company, today announced the introduction of an Early Access Program for its upcoming Human Chromosome ExplorerSM, human chromosome mapping analytical service for clinical research and life science research applications. The companies entered a development agreement in October 2013 to develop the […]

Cambridge, UK — Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced that its Horizon CombinatoRx division has been contracted by a top ten pharma company to profile a lead oncology asset. Under the terms of the agreement, Horizon CombinatoRx […]

Billerica, MA -– Seahorse Bioscience and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) announced today that they have entered into a partnership to study the bioenergetic health of cells in cryo-preserved blood – a step that will ultimately produce a first-of-its-kind clinical test of metabolic bioenergetic health. Because cutting-edge work is now being done on […]