Binding Agreement to Acquire Substantially All NanoString Assets for $220 Million Pending Bankruptcy Court Approval Agreement Represents Major Step in Financial Restructuring and Provides Continuity for Customers and Employees SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (OTC: NSTGQ) (“NanoString” or the “Company”), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, today announced that it has […]

BASEL, Switzerland —  Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) is pleased to announce the successful closing of its acquisition of Chemspeed Technologies AG, a leading Swiss provider of automated laboratory R&D and QC workflow solutions. This acquisition, first announced in January 2024, marks another significant milestone in Bruker’s expansion in vendor-agnostic scientific software, R&D and QC digitalization, and […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Next generation genomic tools company, Nabsys®, has executed a nonexclusive agreement with Canadian distributor, DMark Biosciences (“DMark”), for sales of its OhmX™ platform. OhmX is Nabsys’ first commercially available product and was released in October 2023. DMark will be responsible for distributing both the Nabsys OhmX™ Analyzer and consumables into both public and private research core […]

Indutrade has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in the Norwegian company Matriks AS, www.matriks.no, with annual sales of approximately NOK 215 million (SEK 205 million). Matriks is a technical trading company specialised on analysis instruments, systems and consumables for chemical and biochemical laboratories. The company offers a wide range of products within liquid- […]

BILLERICA, Massachusetts ─  Bruker today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Phasefocus Holdings Limited, which was already announced on December 22nd, 2023. Phasefocus is a privately held company that has leading expertise in imaging and image processing algorithms. Phasefocus has deployed their expertise to develop a novel optical microscope, called Livecyte, for label […]

Shimadzu Corporation acquired the catalytic microreactor business for gas chromatography (GC) from Activated Research Company, LLC (ARC, Minnesota, USA). In the Green Transformation (GX) area, many studies are in progress on the shift towards carbon-neutral (net zero greenhouse gas emissions) through new energy sources, such as hydrogen and biofuels, and on the capture and utilization […]

Major asset acquisition from a U.S.-based company marks another milestone for Canada’s largest biotechnology company Vancouver, BC – STEMCELL Technologies is pleased to announce the acquisition of substantially all assets of SQZ Biotechnologies Company (SQZ)—a Massachusetts-based biotech known for its game-changing method of introducing a variety of therapeutic cargo into cells by squeezing them (mechanoporation) rather […]

ELITechGroup is a differentiated, fast growing and profitable systems and assay provider for molecular diagnostics (MDx), biomedical systems/specialty IVD, and microbiology ELITechGroup offers the proprietary, fully automated sample-to-answer (S2A) molecular diagnostic (MDx) systems InGenius® and BeGenius® for mid-sized hospitals and esoteric testing Large and diversified ELITech MDx assay portfolio is focused on pathogens and viral […]

Nanophoton Strengthens Bruker’s Portfolio of Molecular Microscopy Research Solutions OSAKA, Japan — Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced the acquisition of Nanophoton Corporation, a pioneer focused on advanced research Raman microscopy systems. Headquartered in Osaka, Nanophoton offers a broad portfolio of advanced Raman microscopes, serving academic and industrial research customers, primarily in Japan. This acquisition fills a gap […]

Acquisition Complements Bruker’s Preclinical Imaging Portfolio with In-Vivo Optical Imaging TUCSON, Ariz. — Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced that it has acquired Spectral Instruments Imaging LLC, a leader in preclinical in-vivo optical imaging systems. This acquisition fills a gap in the technology and product portfolio of the Bruker BioSpin Preclinical Imaging (PCI) division, broadening its range of preclinical […]