SANTA CRUZ, Calif.–Two Pore Guys (2PG) announced today that it is collaborating with Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM), on a series of analog signal processing technologies for 2PG’s solid-state nanopore diagnostic testing platform. As part of this collaboration, Maxim has invested in 2PG through its venture arm Maxim Ventures. 2PG has developed a hand-held, […]

Canada’s Minister of Defence, Harjit Sajjan, recently visited the Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research (PCIGR) to announce more than $42 million in funding to support fundamental research at the University of British Columbia. During the visit to PCIGR, director – Prof. Dominique Weis, introduced Mr Sajjan to Nu’s Plasma 1700 high-resolution multi-collector ICP-MS […]

LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO – Today at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Edico Genome and Genomics England announced a new partnership to strengthen the accuracy and consistency of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis in Genomics England’s Rare Disease Pilot. The partnership will support Genomics England in making NGS the standard of care across the U.K.’s […]

SEATTLE — Stratos Genomics, Inc., a 4th generation DNA sequencing technology company, today announced it has raised $20 million in venture capital from Fisk Ventures. The funds will be used for final system development leading to commercial introduction of the company’s proprietary sequencing platform. The next phase of system development will build upon recent breakthroughs in Stratos […]

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 […]