San Diego, CA – Agena Bioscience, a global provider of molecular genetic solutions, today announced it has been selected to participate as an innovative technology provider in the ‘Liquid biopsies and IMAging for improved cancer care’ (LIMA) project. The LIMA project has been awarded a EUR 6.3 million Horizon 2020 European Union research grant to […]

PARIS Aenitis Technologies, which develops new medical equipment based on acoustic manipulation of biological particles, today announced that it has received €4 million in funding, following its application to the highly-selective SME Instrument Phase 2 European programme, in the “Healthcare Biotechnology” category. SME Instrument Phase 2 is part of Horizon 2020, a programme managed by […]

Accelerates growth in cell analysis, new technology and market development PEARLAND, Texas–Base Pair Biotechnologies, Inc., The Aptamer Discovery Company™, today announced the completion of its $3.2 Million Series A-3 financing round and the opening of its new 5,000 square foot laboratory and office facility in Pearland, TX, a Houston suburb. Toronto-based Eventi Capital Partners Inc. […]

SAN DIEGO, CA — NanoCellect Biomedical Inc., a developer of microfluidic cell sorting technologies for cell based assays, today announced the completion of a $10 million Series B financing round, including convertible notes. The financing included the participation of new investors Illumina Ventures, Anzu Partners, Vertical Venture Partners, and 5 Prime Ventures. Also participating in […]

Sphere Fluidics, a company providing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Geneva Biotech, an EMBL spin-out developing world-class viral and non-viral DNA delivery systems, have received a €1.6 million grant from Eurostars. The funding will be used to develop large DNA cargo gene delivery and genome engineering systems. The Eurostars funding programme […]

LEXINGTON, Mass.—-Quanterix Corporation, a company with a next generation, ultra-sensitive digital platform that advances precision health, today announced the commencement of the initial public offering of shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”). The offering consists of 3,340,000 shares of common stock […]

€1.6 million grant will support ‘precise docking of very large DNA cargoes in genomes’ project Cambridge, UK, and Geneva, Switzerland: Sphere Fluidics, a company providing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Geneva Biotech, an EMBL spin-out developing world-class viral and non-viral DNA delivery systems, have received a €1.6 million grant from Eurostars. The […]

Symcel secures €3.6 million Horizon 2020 Phase II grant for clinical validation of customized antimicrobial susceptibility testing Multi-resistant bacterial sepsis infections to be validated utilising Symcel’s sensitive screening technology Symcel, the company behind the revolutionary cell-based assay tool for real-time cell metabolism measurements, calScreener™, has secured €3.572 million Horizon 2020 funding to support the company’s evaluation […]

Cambridge, UK Base4 Innovation Ltd, the biotechnology company specialising in single molecule DNA sequencing, closed an oversubscribed funding round last month, led by Longwall Ventures. The funding round, capped at £5 million, is the Company’s largest to date, with a total of £21.3 million raised since 2009. The funds will be used to expand the […]

The European Commission has appointed Phase Holographic Imaging, Bundesanstalt für Material-forschung und Prüfung (Germany’s federal technology research institute), Malmö, Umeå, Copenhagen and Turku University to develop improved methods for clinically diagnosing cancer. The €2.1 million grant finances a three-year research project which is coordinated by Malmö University and commercialized by Phase Holographic Imaging (PHI). Current methods for […]