Liege, Belgium – Diagenode, a high growth, innovative life sciences company that focuses in epigenetics and molecular diagnostics, announced that it has secured €7.5 million in financing. The additional capital includes an equity component provided by Epimède SA, SRIW SA, OBI SA and the Capricorn Health-tech Fund NV (CHF, Leuven, Belgium) which is managed by […]

San Carlos, CA, – NuGEN Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Nitin Sood as Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Elizabeth Hutt who recently left to pursue another opportunity. Mr. Sood comes to NuGEN from PerkinElmer, where he served as Vice President and General Manager of their life science instruments business spanning a portfolio of products […]

Oxford, UK – Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has introduced its SureSeq™ FFPE DNA Repair Mix — optimised to repair a broad range of damage in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) derived DNA. The mix effectively repairs DNA damage, improving library yields, on-target rates and mean target coverage, while removing fixation and storage artefacts […]

FREMONT, Calif. and KUSASTSU, Japan, – WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS), a publicly held genomics technology company (“WaferGen”), announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement in Japan with Takara Bio Inc. (“Takara”, TSE: 4974), a leading Japanese and global biotechnology and life science reagents company. The agreement is for promotion and technical […]

AMSBIO has introduced a wide selection of new high quality products for exosome research. Formulated to be quick, affordable and easy to use, AMSBIO’s new expanded suite of quantification kits, isolation tools, standards, DNA & RNA extraction kits, antibodies and cell culture reagents will facilitate your understanding of exosomes using a wide variety of samples. […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., – MO BIO Laboratories, a QIAGEN Company, the leader in soil, environmental, stool and microbial nucleic acid purification, announced the launch of the NoviPure® Microbial Protein Kit, for isolation of total cellular proteins from microbial cultures in a quick and user-friendly spin filter format. The NoviPure® Microbial Protein Kit features an optimized bead […]

PLEASANTON, Calif., – 10x Genomics, a company focused on improving and broadening the application of genomic information, announced global commercial availability of their new Chromium™ System, a transformative upgrade for the predominant generation of short-read sequencers with the ability to unlock critical long-range genomic and cell-by-cell gene expression information. “Global availability of our new Chromium […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 16 2016 – Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) announced the introduction of Single-Cell TCR Sequencing, a new immunology application on the C1™ system that enables in-depth profiling of T cells at single-cell resolution. Uncovering the unique T cell receptor (TCR) alpha and beta chains from each cell in conjunction with the corresponding […]