Wädenswil/Zurich, Switzerland – Creoptix AG, a Switzerland-based company focused on next-generation bioanalytical instruments, today announced that is has raised CHF 8 million in the first closing as part of a Series C financing round. The round was led by Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank and joined by Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) as well as existing private investors. Robert […]

Hesperos, Inc., (www.hesperosinc.com) announced today the University of Central Florida (UCF) received the first phase of a $3.8 million milestone-based National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for research involving the company’s human-on-a-chip system. “We are grateful to have funding to support research in an area that represents such a large and growing need,” said Dr. […]

ASHLAND, Mass. – BioSurfaces, Inc. (BioSurfaces) was awarded a contract from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) BioPrinting Lab at the National Institutes of Health to produce 96-well tissue culture plate assemblies that include its proprietary electrospun materials.   The objective is to deliver prototype 96-well or higher plate assemblies that utilize a biodegradable polymer as […]

New platform to combine stem cell and CRISPR gene-editing technology with proven 3D cell culture techniques for producing standardized pancreatic islet disease models.  Schlieren, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK – InSphero AG and DefiniGEN Ltd. today announced that they were awarded a €750K grant from Eurostars to develop a new drug-screening platform based on human pancreatic […]

TEMPE, Ariz.–INanoBio, a startup developing early stage disease diagnostics by combining semiconductor nanotechnology with biotechnology and machine learning, to receive up to $5.4 Million over four years as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract worth up to $27.8 Million awarded to consortium led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount […]

PLEASANTON, Calif., – 10x Genomics (Nasdaq: TXG) today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 11,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock, which includes the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase 1,500,000 additional shares of its Class A common stock, at a public offering price of $39.00 per share. Including the option exercise, […]

BOULDER, Colo. — InDevR, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing novel analytical technologies for biologic process development and monitoring, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round of equity financing from Adjuvant Capital (“Adjuvant”). The investment from Adjuvant will support research and development activities and allow InDevR to build out a global […]

Cambridge, UK – Lightcast Discovery Ltd (“Lightcast”), an early stage developer of a next-generation microfluidic platform aiming to revolutionise complex cell analysis, today announces that it has raised £1.3 m (USD 1.6m) in seed financing from private investors to develop the capabilities and applications of its platform including continuing to expand its range of pilot studies. […]

  SAN DIEGO– SGI-DNA, a company dedicated to developing transformative synthetic genomics technologies and revolutionary DNA data storage solutions, has completed a $25 million Series A financing round led by Northpond Ventures, with participation from Oxford Finance and BroadOak Capital Partners. Proceeds of the financing will support the global commercial launch of the industry’s first fully […]

NGen has approved Supercluster funding for a transformative $4.2 million project led by iVexSol Canada to develop an advanced manufacturing process for lentiviral vectors. These gene-editing reagents are critical components in the manufacturing processes of cell and gene therapies (CGTs), which have been successfully employed to fight cancer and repair a variety of rare and inherited […]