Laboratory instrumentation standard-bearer announces plans for 20% growth, opening of regional sales and service hubs in Los Angeles and Houston. The company is also in the beginning stages of a full-scale hiring wave. ASHLAND, Va. Anton Paar, the premier manufacturer of laboratory instruments and process measurement systems, has announced an aggressive growth strategy for 2018, […]

Circulomics Receives $1.7M to Develop Nanobind Methods for FFPE DNA/RNA Extraction and NGS Library Preparation New technologies will expand Circulomics’ sample preparation products to further enhance NGS data quality and yield Baltimore, MD NIH has awarded Circulomics two SBIR grants totaling over $1.7M to develop new applications of its Nanobind DNA/RNA extraction technology. Nanobind is […]

London, UK – Desktop Genetics Ltd (DTG), a software company revolutionising the way biologists use CRISPR(1) genome editing technology, and online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announce the opening of a £1.5 million investment round. DTG plans to use the funds to commercialise products and support its expansion into the US. DTG uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enable scientists and […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Novilytic, a life sciences company based in the Purdue Research Parkthat offers novel separation tools and devices for drug discovery and clinical diagnostics, has received notice from the National Institutes of Health that it has been awarded a grant worth up to $1.5 million. The NIH made the award to Novilytic as a Phase […]

Frameshift Genomics has recently been awarded two grants from the NHGRI, a phase I STTR and a phase I SBIR. In collaboration with the Marth Lab at the University of Utah, these grants aim to improve the IOBIO real-time genomic visualization and analysis project. Rapid and easy determination of genomic data quality problems is still challenging. Supported by one […]

• Key advances in the pharmaceutical pipeline deliver initial sales • Life Science expected to keep growing faster than the market • Performance Materials benefiting from a diversified business model • Deleveraging continues to have high priority • Active portfolio management remains a central element of the company strategy Darmstadt, Germany – Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, […]

Venture capital fund BORN2GROW has invested in Stuttgart-based Venneos GmbH in the current round of series A financing. The start-up is successfully developing and marketing the CAN-Q – a silicon chip-based imaging system for analysing biological cells. “We are thrilled to have BORN2GROW on-board as a new investor, and that we will be able to […]

Chelmsford, Mass. — BioStorage® Technologies GMBH, the EU Biobanking and Sample Bioprocessing Services subsidiary of Brooks Life Science Systems, announced it has been awarded CIR (Credit d´Impôt Recherche) Research Tax Credit service provider status by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), for the three-year period 2017 through 2019. The CIR allows eligible research-based […]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland SOPHiA GENETICS, the global leader in Data-Driven Medicine that has created SOPHiA Artificial Intelligence, today announced the close of a $30 million Series D funding round. The round was led by London-based Balderton Capital joined by 360º Capital Partners alongside existing investors British tech star Mike Lynch’s Invoke Capital and Alychlo, the investment firm of Belgian pharmaceutical entrepreneur Marc Coucke. […]

MEDFORD, Mass. — GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. announced today the completion of its $18 million Series D round of financing led by Fall Line Capital. S2G Ventures, Lewis and Clark Ventures, and Macro Capital Investments participated in the round, along with the majority of GreenLight’s existing investors, including Kodiak Venture Partners, MLSCF, Syngenta Ventures and others.  GreenLight is harnessing its […]