Ovation.io, Inc. today announced the close of an expanded $1.85M round of financing, initially led by StageDotO and Longfellow Ventures, as well as the completion of a partnership with The Hunt Group, a respected provider of health information services. Ovation continues to evolve beyond a laboratory information management system (LIMS) to a full commercialization ecosystem that provides diagnostic […]

SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Protein Metrics Inc., a premier provider of mass spectrometry software for protein characterization, announces a fourth consecutive year of record revenue and bookings.  Sales of products more than doubled from 2016.  Growth was evenly distributed between renewals of licenses to existing customers, expansion of products and users within existing customer organizations, and […]

Burlingame, California — Collaborative Drug Discovery, provider of CDD Vault® web-based drug discovery informatics platform, announced they have been awarded a $1.5M Phase 2B SBIR grant titled “Comprehensive but simple encoding of bioassays to accelerate translational drug discovery”. These innovations are productized in the commercially available collaborative CDD Vault ELN (Electronic Laboratory Notebook) and a new, intelligent […]

Nan Fung Life Sciences and Madryn Asset Management join iCarbonX in investing to accelerate SomaLogic’s unique precision health insights delivery business Boulder, CO – SomaLogic announced today that it has capped its $200 million funding round, anchored by iCarbonX with substantial investments from Nan Fung Life Sciences and Madryn Asset Management. The successful round will accelerate SomaLogic’s […]

Investment led by Foresite Capital with strategic investment by Microsoft will support expansion in translational informatics, clinical trials, and broadened use of biomedical data MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–DNAnexus, Inc., the global leader in biomedical informatics and data management, today announced closing a $58 million financing led by new investor Foresite Capital with strategic investment from Microsoft […]

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announces that, mainly as a consequence of the new U.S. tax legislation, it will take an after-tax charge on net income of approximately $110-120 million (or about $0.47-$0.52 per share) in the fourth quarter of 2017, and an additional after-tax charge in […]

2017 Year in review It’s been a busy year for us here at Spectradyne, so we thought we would give you a quick review! Sales update In 2017, Spectradyne doubled the installed base of nCS1TM instruments! Installations include our first overseas customer (in Germany), our first university customers, and several major pharmaceutical customers. Looking ahead to […]

Epigenetic Markers and Sustained Cytoprotection for Stroke Treatment IRVINE, Calif. — Zymo Research Corp. has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The STTR Program requires small businesses to collaborate with a research institution. The program’s goals according to their website are as follows: Stimulate technological innovation. Foster […]

Community-owned database empowers individuals with cryptocurrency for contributing genomic data SAN DIEGO — Luna DNA, the first and only genomic and medical research knowledge base powered by the blockchain and owned by its community, announced $2 Million in Seed funding today. The round included several individual investors and former executives from Illumina ILMN 0.34%, the world leader in DNA sequencing and […]

Spectris plc (‘Spectris’) (LSE: SXS), the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that it has signed an agreement with Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group, for them to acquire 50% of Spectris’ environmental monitoring business EMS Brüel & Kjær (‘EMS B&K’) for a total cash consideration of AUD76.6 million […]