In one of its largest ever investments, Carlyle Japan will support Rigaku’s continued global expansion Tokyo, Japan – Global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Mr. Hikaru Shimura, President and CEO of Rigaku Corporation (“Rigaku”), Japan’s leading manufacturer of X-ray analysis, measurement and testing instruments, announce today the acquisition of all outstanding shares of Rigaku, through a holding [...]

NanoString’s GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler Highlighted as a Versatile Platform for High Plex Spatial Analysis of RNA and Protein SEATTLE-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, today announced that the journal Nature Methods has selected spatially-resolved transcriptomics as their prestigious Method of the Year for 2020. [...]

SEATTLE -- TwinStrand Biosciences, Inc., a next-generation DNA sequencing technology company, announced today that Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed to its Board of Directors as the company's fifth board member. Dr. Gilliland brings over 30 years of clinical and research leadership experience, most recently serving as president and director of the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [...]

Fredericton, N.B. – Canadian business leader and serial entrepreneur Charles Cartmill announced today the sale of C-Therm Technologies Ltd. to the company’s top executive Adam Harris. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cartmill commented, “I am proud to sell the business to Adam, who launched C-Therm with me 14 years ago. Adam has been an [...]

Proprietary in Situ Single-Cell Omics Technology Speeds Drug & Biomarker Discovery Vizgen, a life sciences company developing the next generation of in situ single-cell genomics, today announced the launch of its Pharma Accelerator Lab in response to high demand from leading pharmaceutical companies who are increasingly turning to single-cell and spatial transcriptomics solutions to accelerate [...]

- ScaleReady is a joint venture between Bio-Techne, Fresenius Kabi, and Wilson Wolf - ScaleReady’s mission is to make the business of cell and gene therapy practical and viable by providing the most simple, scalable and versatile manufacturing platform in the industry - ScaleReady will provide sales, marketing, and application support for customers globally ScaleReady, a joint venture [...]

Proposed transaction builds on both companies’ strategic R&D partnership Strengthens Sartorius position in downstream bioprocessing Göttingen -- The life science company Sartorius today announced it has entered into an agreement through its subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech to acquire the chromatography process equipment division of Novasep. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price until [...]

MAHWAH, NJ  – AMETEK EDAX, a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation, is adding a new, fast, low-noise CMOS camera to its Velocity™ Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) Camera Series. The Velocity Pro offers high-speed EBSD mapping with the highest indexing performance on real-world materials. The Velocity EBSD Camera Series now includes three cameras [...]

New model for instrument and equipment procurement offers customers subscription-based access to technology, and associated consumables, services and support WALTHAM, Mass.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of Managed Equipment Solutions, a new subscription-based offering that bundles instrument and equipment procurement with consumables, applications support, software, [...]

With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Illumina and Helix have already identified more than 50 cases of the new variant in the US SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN) and Helix today announced a collaboration to augment national surveillance infrastructure in the US to track the emergence and prevalence of novel [...]