Broad Institute and Verily partner with Microsoft to accelerate the next generation of the Terra platform for health and life science research

Multiyear partnership brings together advanced technology, industry expertise and scale to help researchers interpret an unprecedented amount of biomedical data and derive insights to advance the treatment of human diseases CAMBRIDGE, Mass., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced [...]

NuProbe Closes $42M Fundraising

HOUSTON and SHANGHAI — NuProbe, a genomics and molecular diagnostics company specialized in ultrasensitive sequencing panels, announces the closing of its oversubscribed $42M fundraising. The lead investors for this financing round are BioTrack Capital and Yonghua Capital. The proceeds will be used to expand the commercial team in both the US and China, develop new NGS products, and file [...]

Unchained Labs sticks it to viruses, launches new mRNA vaccine application on Stunner!

Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting researchers the right tool for the job, launched its new mRNA vaccine application on Stunner today. Stunner is the only platform that can simultaneously quantify the total amount of mRNA and measure the size distribution of lipid nanoparticles – two critical qualities of these novel [...]

Tecan invests in Labforward to further drive lab digitalization

Tecan participates as lead investor in series B financing round of Labforward, a provider of smart lab software tools for research labs Investment of EUR 4 million builds on ongoing collaboration with Labforward in the area of connectivity tools for Tecan detection devices Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that [...]

LI-COR Biosciences Providing Direct Support to Customers in Italy

Lincoln, NE and Bad Homburg, DE: LI-COR Biosciences is pleased to announce that it is now providing sales, support, and service directly to biotechnology customers in Italy. LI-COR customers for its Environmental product line in Italy continue to be supported by Ecosearch Srl. “This will allow us to provide a higher level of support to biotech [...]

DECTRIS opens an office in Himeji, Japan

[日本語はこちら] With an increasing number of X-ray detectors being installed at synchrotron sources and in laboratories, the Swiss company DECTRIS is setting up a subsidiary in Japan. With its office close to the SPring-8 synchrotron, DECTRIS JAPAN K.K. will get closer to its customers by offering direct sales and support services all over Japan. DECTRIS’ [...]

BIOKÉ and Mission Bio announce a distribution agreement for the Tapestri Platform in Benelux countries

LEIDEN - BIOKÉ, a business unit of Cell Signaling Technology Europe, announced a signed distribution agreement with Mission Bio, the leader in single-cell DNA sequencing and multi-omics to accelerate discoveries and improve time-to-market for new therapeutics, to distribute Mission Bio’s Tapestri® solution in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (Benelux) effective immediately. Mission Bio’s Tapestri Platform is the [...]

PHOTONDELTA AND INNOVATION INDUSTRIES INVEST IN GROUNDBREAKING OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY START-UP: MANTISPECTRA

Together with Innovation Industries, PhotonDelta invests seed capital in MantiSpectra, a recent spin-off from Eindhoven University of Technology. MantiSpectra is developing an innovative near infrared (NIR) spectrometer technology using photonic integrated chips. Spectrometers can measure the chemical composition of a sample by using light. Current solutions tend to be bulky, expensive and need to be [...]

The DAK Group Announces Majority Sale of Astrix Technology: Leading Provider of Laboratory Informatics and Outsourced Solutions to the Global Scientific Community

Rochelle Park, NJ – The DAK Group, a leading investment bank specializing in middle market mergers and acquisitions worldwide, announces the sale of a majority stake of its client, Astrix Software Technology, Inc. (d.b.a. Astrix Technology Group) headquartered in Red Bank, NJ to Quad-C Management, Inc. of Charlottesville, VA. The DAK Group served as the exclusive [...]

Pacific Biosciences Announces Appointments of Mark Van Oene as Chief Operating Officer and Peter Fromen as Chief Commercial Officer

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality sequencing solutions, today announced the appointments of Mark Van Oene as Chief Operating Officer and Peter Fromen as Chief Commercial Officer, both effective as of January 8, 2021. “I am delighted to have Mark Van Oene and Peter Fromen [...]

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