SPT Life Sciences Announces Acquisition of LBD Life Sciences

Cambridge, UK — Life Science Newswire — SPT Life Sciences, a global group of innovative technology companies focused on supporting the life sciences industry to deliver more effective research, has today announced the completion of the acquisition of LBD Life Sciences, a leading supplier of instrumentation to the drug discovery market in China. SPT Life [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Further Expands Laboratory Plastics Production to Support COVID-19 Testing, Therapies and Vaccines

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it is investing more than $140 million to further expand its laboratory plastics consumables production to support significant global demand for COVID-19 testing, as well as development and manufacturing of therapies and vaccines. "Early in the pandemic, we quickly joined forces with governments, [...]

Akoya Biosciences Unveils New Spatial Biology Platform to Enable Rapid Image Analysis and Secure Data Sharing

The Proxima® spatial analysis software solution seamlessly integrates image acquisition to data analysis in the secure cloud for rapid access by any user. MENLO PARK, Calif. — Akoya Biosciences, Inc., The Spatial Biology Company™, today announced the availability of Proxima™, The Spatial Biology Platform™ to integrate rapid image acquisition and secure data sharing in the cloud with immediate [...]

Phasefocus appoint ParalabBio as Livecyte distributor for Portugal and Spain

Phasefocus is pleased to announce the continuation of its global extension programme with the appointment of ParalabBio as representation in Portugal and Spain. This market expansion is in response to growing interest in Livecyte™, the company’s flagship cell imaging and analysis platform which enables users to uncover differences in cell behaviour that previously have been [...]

Ansa Biotechnologies Raises $9.2 Million in Combined Seed and Pre-Seed Financing

Ansa Biotechnologies today announced that it has raised $7.9 million in an oversubscribed Seed round of funding led by Horizons Ventures, with participation from Mubadala Capital, Humboldt Fund, and additional investors. Combined with a Pre-Seed round raised in December 2018 led by Fifty Years, the company has raised $9.2 million to date. The new investment [...]

Genomic Leaders Collaborate to Create Australia’s First National COVID-19 Tracking System

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that the Australian public health laboratories will aim to sequence the virus genomes of all positive COVID-19 tests in Australia and track COVID-19 using genomics across the country, rather than state by state, under a ground-breaking initiative spearheaded by Australia’s public health laboratory organisations and leading industry [...]

ERS Genomics provides comment on US patent office motions decisions in CRISPR/Cas9 interference case

DUBLIN, Ireland: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property held by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, has today provided comment on the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO/PTAB) rulings in the motions phase of the ongoing patent interference between the University of California, the University of Vienna, and Dr. [...]

Pacific Biosciences Announces New Chief Financial Officer

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes, today announced the appointment of Susan G. Kim as Chief Financial Officer, effective as of September 28, 2020. “I am delighted that Susan is joining the company at a time where we have [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Collaborations to Meet Unmet Clinical Needs in Biomarker Discovery and Characterization

Agreements with AstraZeneca and the University of Nebraska Medical Center showcase new workflows to improve the throughput, robustness and standardization of clinical biomarker analysis CAMBRIDGE, Mass – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced new collaborations of the Thermo Fisher Precision Medicine Science Center (PMSC) with AstraZeneca and the University of [...]

Bio-Rad Introduces StarBright Violet 515 Dye for Flow Cytometry

HERCULES, Calif.– Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of StarBright Violet 515 (SBV515) Dye, the first of a new range of unique fluorescent nanoparticles, for use in flow cytometry. StarBright Dyes are conjugated to a growing range of antibodies [...]

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