SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications today announced a new commercial agreement with JAN Scientific (JANSi), a specialist provider of imaging solutions for macromolecular crystallography. The distribution agreement for North America will enable SPT Labtech to promote JANSi’s plate hotels and scanning imagers for […]

Oxford Nanopore, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US CDC, Microsoft and Illumina collaborate with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to launch Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) $100 million four-year initiative will rapidly expand access to next-generation genomic sequencing tools and strengthen public health surveillance networks across Africa Oxford […]

Joins Africa CDC alongside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others in a four-year plan October 12, 2020 A dangerous novel pathogen emerging in any region is devastating, but even more so when genomics and bioinformatics infrastructure is insufficient to identify, monitor, or slow its spread. In resource-limited environments, public health officials struggle to allocate […]

MILAN (Italy) and MADISON (Wis., USA) –Axxam S.p.A., a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services across life sciences industries, and FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) models and therapies, announce a strategic alliance to improve the drug discovery process. The alliance will provide drug […]

BRANFORD, Conn. — Isoplexis, the leader in single-cell functional proteomics, today announced a partnership with Yale University to use IsoPlexis’ functional immune landscaping and high-plex automated immunoassay solutions to identify various predictive markers of immune response to COVID-19. The lead investigators at Yale University include Dr. Rong Fan, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale whose focus includes single-cell analysis of human diseases to help transform the […]

SEATTLE– NanoString Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, and OnRamp Bioinformatics, a provider of cloud-based genomic analysis tools, today announced a key milestone in their partnership to develop new analysis tools to accelerate research on NanoString’s nCounter® Analysis System. After successful completion of an Early Access Program […]

Mastermind Genomic Search Engine Now Part of RCIGM’s Analysis and Variant Interpretation Workflow ANN ARBOR, MI — The Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) and Genomenon, Inc. today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the diagnosis of critically-ill newborns with rare genetic disorders. The collaboration combines the Institute’s genomic research expertise with Genomenon’s Mastermind Genomic Search Engine to […]

OBERKOCHEN, GERMANY, and REDMOND, WASH. — Today, ZEISS Group and Microsoft Corp. announced a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate ZEISS’ transformation into a digital services provider that is embracing a cloud-first approach. By standardizing its equipment and processes on Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform, ZEISS will be able to provide its customers with […]

Funds granted by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have been awarded for the development an intensity-modulated phase-based soft X-ray microscope. The Woodlands, Texas. Rigaku Corporation, a global leader in X-ray analytical instrumentation, will lead a consortium of scientific and academic research institutions in the development a new soft X-ray phase-based microscope for […]

Livermore, CA, and Boston, MA, USA: A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright LLC to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the United States and others issued warnings that hackers were using the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their activities. “In the past decade, genomics and […]