Biosero Appoints Ryan Bernhardt as Chief Commercial Officer

With a focus on commercial expansion, Biosero also names Ruth Petersen as Director of Marketing Biosero, Inc., developer of automation solutions that enable laboratories to make better decisions in less time using more data, today announced two key hires as it expands commercial operations. Ryan Bernhardt joins the company as Chief Commercial Officer, and Ruth [...]

IsoPlexis Appoints Siddhartha Kadia to its Board of Directors

BRANFORD, Conn. -- IsoPlexis, the leader in functional single-cell proteomics, today announced the appointment of Siddhartha Kadia to its Board of Directors. Dr. Kadia joins IsoPlexis' Board of Directors with over 20 years of experience in evolving a combination of technology, life science and healthcare industries. Dr. Siddhartha Kadia previously served as the President of [...]

Zymo Research Releases Open-Source Bioinformatics Pipeline for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection in Wastewater

Early Release of the VirSieve™ Bioinformatics Pipeline Will Promote Collaboration in Environmental SARS-CoV-2 Research IRVINE, Calif. -- Zymo Research has released the VirSieve™ Bioinformatics Pipeline source code to the environmental microbiology community to promote global collaboration and support for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater. VirSieve™ is an automated computational pipeline that analyzes sequencing reads from the SARS-CoV-2 [...]

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US, upholds jury decision to invalidate certain PacBio patents

Today the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a unanimous Precedential Opinion and Judgment affirming the jury’s March 2020 verdict in the PacBio v. Oxford Nanopore case, that invalidated a number of PacBio patents.  This has been a long running dispute in which Oxford Nanopore has repeatedly prevailed.  In 2018, Oxford Nanopore was [...]

Euformatics signs distribution partnership with Illumina distributor for Saudi Arabia, Al Jeel Medical and Trading Company

HELSINKI, Finland -- Euformatics and Al Jeel have signed a distribution partnership covering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, expanding the reach of the company’s omnomics Suite of NGS software products to hospitals and laboratories as NGS sequencing technology uptake continues to expand in the Middle East. The agreement follows the selection of Al Jeel as [...]

Sensirion fully acquires infrared spectrometer specialist IRsweep

Sensirion Holding AG, a leading provider of environmental and flow sensor solutions, completes the acquisition of IRsweep AG, an innovative provider of optical sensing solutions. IRsweep, based in Stäfa, Switzerland, develops, manufactures, and supplies optical spectroscopy solutions based on semiconductor quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency comb technology in the mid-infrared. Sensirion has been a minority [...]

BROOKS ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO SEPARATE INTO TWO INDEPENDENT PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES

Separation Will Create Focused, High-Growth Life Sciences and Automation Companies Tax-Efficient Separation Expected to be Completed by End of Calendar Year 2021 CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brooks Automation, Inc. ("Brooks") (Nasdaq: BRKS) today announced its intention to separate its business into two independent, and publicly-traded companies. The transaction is intended to be structured as a pro-rata distribution of [...]

New England Biolabs® to acquire Fluorogenics Limited

Strengthening our ability to address the lyophilized reagent needs of molecular diagnostics customers. IPSWICH, Mass. -- New England Biolabs, inc. (NEB®), a leading supplier of life science reagents, today announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Fluorogenics Limited (FGL), a lyophilization R&D service company based in the UK. Under the terms of the [...]

International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) Officially Incorporates NMR Method in Compendium of International Methods of Analysis of Wines and Musts

ETTLINGEN, Germany --  Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been incorporated by the intergovernmental and International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) in its compendium of International Methods of Analysis of Wines and Musts, for the quantification of six key parameters in wine – glucose, malic acid, acetic acid, fumaric acid, shikimic acid and sorbic acid. [...]

Annette Colin has today informed Biotage that she is leaving the position as CFO.

Annette Colin has today informed Biotage that she is leaving the position as CFO. Annette Colin has a six months’ notice period. The company will now initiate the recruitment of a successor. About Biotage Biotage is a Global Impact Tech Company committed to solving society’s problems. We offer workflow solutions and products to customers in [...]

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