KTP Grant Expedites Development of Nuclera’s Desktop Gene Printer

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Nuclera, the UK-based biotech company developing desktop gene and protein printing technologies, announces that it has been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant in support of its work with researchers at the University of Southampton. The research programme at the University of Southampton (Electronics and Computer Science) is being supervised by Professor of Bioelectronics, Hywel Morgan MBE.  [...]

Ultivue Announces New VP Medical Director, VP Manufacturing Operations and Quality

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ultivue announces the addition of two new executive team members in order to help strengthen its position as a leading assay development solutions provider for multiplex biomarker analysis. Keith Wharton MD PhD has recently joined Ultivue in the role of Vice President, Medical Director, and James (Bud) Drummey has joined as Vice [...]

Dr. Ana K. Stankovic, MD, PhD, Appointed to Fluidigm Board of Directors

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation (Nasdaq:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced the appointment of Dr. Ana K. Stankovic, MD, PhD, MSPH, to the company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Stankovic is a seasoned leader with more than 30 years of research and [...]

Singlera Genomics raises $150 million in Series B financing to promote the development and commercialization of early cancer screening products

SAN DIEGO and SHANGHAI -- Singlera Genomics Inc.,. today announced that it raised $150 million in Series B financing. This round of financing was led by the CICC Kai Tak Innovative Biomedicine Fund, and co-led by Detong Capital and Furong Investment. The new group of investors also include Huamei International, Linden Asset Group, Wuxi Capital, FutureX Skyline Capital, Shanghai Free Trade [...]

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd – Oxford Nanopore and SourceBio announce commercial partnership for UK COVID-19 testing service

Oxford Nanopore’s rapid LamPORE COVID-19 test to be made available via SourceBio accredited lab facilities Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited (“Oxford Nanopore”), a leading next generation DNA/RNA sequencing technology company and SourceBio International plc (“SourceBio”), an international provider of integrated state of the art laboratory services and products, announce a strategic commercial partnership to offer a commercially [...]

Cell Microsystems Announces Distribution Agreement with Bucher Biotec AG

The agreement is expected to accelerate adoption of Cell Microsystem’s image-based single cell systems in Switzerland We are excited to bring this System to our customers and the Swiss scientific community.” — Marc Bucher RESEARCH TRIANGLE, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, US -- Cell Microsystems, a developer of advanced research tools for single cell workflows, is pleased to [...]

WITec supports Albert Einstein Discovery Center with 5,000 Euros

This year, instead of sending Christmas presents to its customers, WITec GmbH is donating 5,000 Euros to the Albert Einstein Discovery Center Association. "As a manufacturer of microscopy systems from Ulm, and through our close connection to physics, it is especially important to us to help make the Albert Einstein Discovery Center a reality," emphasized Dr. [...]

IST AG expands its bio product portfolio with DNA / RNA extraction

With the acquisition of life-science company AJ Innuscreen GmbH in Berlin, Innovative Sensor Technology IST AG was able to expand its product portfolio with kits for DNA / RNA extraction as well as molecular biology detection assays for food and water and reagents for PCR or Real Time PCR.  IST AG offers the new deltaPREP product [...]

Grant awarded to Qlucore to aid clinical diagnostics of cancer

Qlucore, leading software provider of powerful visualization-based bioinformatics data analysis tools for research and precision diagnostics, is working with leading scientific experts at Lund University (Sweden), Gothenburg University (Sweden) and in China to develop new diagnostics methods and software solutions to significantly improve disease stratification and treatment selection of patients diagnosed with cancer. A recent [...]

PathogenDx Appoints Dr. David Acheson as a Strategic Advisor to Chair Its New Food Safety Committee

Dr. Acheson, Former Chief Medical Officer for USDA and FDA, will advise the company as it develops advanced testing technology for the food safety industry SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- PathogenDx, Inc., an Arizona based technology company which has developed a multiplexed microarray DNA-based pathogen testing platform, announced today that Dr. David Acheson will join the company as a strategic advisor. As part [...]

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