SAN DIEGO & PHILADELPHIA—LLR Partners today announced an investment in Genesee Scientific, a manufacturer and distributor of products to global life science markets. The partnership will help enable Genesee’s continued growth through investment in its leading product portfolio, scaling of its national footprint and continued excellence in serving its laboratory customers. Genesee Scientific was founded in 1995 […]

SAN DIEGO — Molecular Assemblies, Inc., today announced that it has been awarded a $250,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant (Award No. R43HG011679) from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant supports Molecular Assemblies’ development of a fully enzymatic synthesis cycle for […]

RedShift BioAnalytics Closes $20M Series E Funding Led by Illumina Ventures Financing proceeds will support continued commercial expansion, development of new applications, and product development. Burlington, MA – October 18th, 2021  RedShift BioAnalytics Inc. (RedShiftBioⓇ), a company providing next-generation platform technology enabling measurement of previously undetectable structure changes in biomolecules, announced today the closing of its […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Armonica Technologies, Inc., a biotechnology company developing a high throughput, direct long-read DNA sequencing technology, announced that it has raised $2M in new funding.  The financing included Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. and current investors Cottonwood Technology Fund, Sun Mountain Capital and Tramway Venture Partners. The funding will support further feasibility demonstration of company’s sequencing technology. Akira […]

Executorship remains unchanged and comprehensively in force No impact on strategy and management of Sartorius AG Göttingen – Karin Sartorius-Herbst and LifeScience Holding SCSp (“LSH”) have entered into option agreements to acquire a total portion of approximately 56.7 percent of the shares of inheritances (“Erbteile”) of the Horst Sartorius community of heirs (“Erbengemeinschaft”) from other […]

Pluto streamlines academic, biotech and pharma labs’ project management and bioinformatics analysis capabilities, connecting life sciences teams across the globe and accelerating new scientific discoveries DENVER — Pluto Biosciences, a biotech software startup and developer of the Pluto collaborative life sciences platform, announced today it has raised $1 million in its seed round, led by […]

Akadeum Life Sciences closes an oversubscribed round and plans to expand commercialization of proprietary biological separation platform.  Dan Kidle, Managing Partner at Arboretum Ventures, joins Akadeum board of directors. Ann Arbor, MI – Akadeum Life Sciences, Inc., today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $17.5 million Series B financing led by Arboretum Ventures. Investors in the […]

Company launches first-of-its-kind platform for performing no-code CRISPR workflows via any web browser SAN FRANCISCO — Latch Bio, a company building data infrastructure for the biocomputing revolution, today announced the closing of a $5 million seed funding round led by Lux Capital with participation from General Catalyst, Haystack, Fifty Years, and Asimov co-founder and CEO, […]

The start up Celtarys Research, born at the University of Santiago de Compostela and dedicated to the development of fluorescent tools for drug discovery, has closed a seed capital investment round of 650,000 euros. In the round have participated the Galician institutional funds of the Xunta de Galicia – through XesGalicia – and VigoActivo, as […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Draper has received a $719,000 federal contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance the company’s tissue-chip platform for advanced studies of viral infection. With the contract, Draper will design a model for human airway tissue and adapt its PREDICT96 platform to collect data for SARS-CoV-2 infection studies. The […]