New funding accelerates platform development and meets surging demand as pharma and biotech reimagine drug discovery LONDON -- Automata, the lab automation company building fully integrated, AI-ready platforms for life sciences, today announced the close of a $45 million Series C funding round led by Dimension with participation from Danaher Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, Octopus [...]

Opentrons Robotics Network Infrastructure Becoming Core for AI-Driven Drug Discovery NEW YORK -- Opentrons Labworks, Inc., a laboratory robotics company building the physical infrastructure for AI-driven autonomous science, today announced the promotion of James Atwood to Chief Executive Officer. Atwood assumed the role of CEO in July 2025. He has led Opentrons’ Robotics Business Unit [...]

X-Rite Pantone, the global authority in color standards and color science, today announced the promotion of Cindy Cooperman to Vice President and General Manager of Pantone. In this role, Cooperman will lead Pantone as a distinct business unit within X-Rite Pantone. Cooperman brings more than 25 years of experience supporting brands, designers, and manufacturers that [...]

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Demeetra AgBio, a genome engineering company enabling research and biomanufacturing through advanced gene-editing technologies and engineered CHO host cells, announced the completion and full integration of its acquisition of Hera BioLabs. The transaction, completed June 1, resulted in Demeetra now holding expanded rights to the hyperactive Super piggyBac® transposase platform and technologies, establishing Demeetra [...]

San Dimas, CA - CRAIC Technologies, the global leader in UV-Visible-NIR microspectroscopy, today announced significant technology updates to the 508PV™ Microscope Spectrophotometer, designed to meet the precision demands of semiconductor fabs and R&D laboratories. The 508PV™ seamlessly adds full spectroscopic measurement capabilities to optical microscopes and probe stations, making it an indispensable tool for advanced semiconductor inspection [...]

Middleton, WI — Gilson today announced the launch of its new application-configured PIPETMAX® systems, purpose-built to accelerate automation adoption across qPCR, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and plate-based bioassays. The applications-ready instruments, with ready to run methods, intuitive software assistants, and guided setup, enable labs to reduce training time, minimize variability, and make it easier to scale their science. An [...]

Beltsville, MD, USA – REPROCELL today announced the commercial launch of StemEdit, its clinical gene editing services and new gene-edited iPSC product lines leveraging OpenCRISPR-1™, an AI-designed genome editing system licensed from Profluent (Emeryville, CA, USA). StemEdit encompasses REPROCELL’s proprietary clinical gene-editing technology and its new gene-edited iPSC lines that are ready for immediate use. These offerings combine REPROCELL’s StemRNA™ [...]

Dr. Hailing Shi to apply 3D spatial multi-omics to decode RNA regulation in the human brain and neurodegenerative diseases BOSTON -- Stellaromics, a pioneer in high-resolution 3D spatial biology, today announced the installation of its Pyxa™ 3D spatial multi-omics system at Emory University School of Medicine. Emory becomes the third beta program site following successful deployments [...]

Devyser today announced that it entered a strategic agreement with Illumina, a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, to provide Illumina sequencing instruments and related products to Devyser customers. Under the agreement, Devyser will be able to offer selected Illumina sequencing instruments together with Devyser’s reagent solutions, enabling customers to access advanced sequencing [...]

First U.S. commercial agreement delivers next-generation technology for faster, more accurate diagnostics BURLINGTON, N.C. – Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, announced today that it is the first U.S. commercial laboratory with an agreement to implement Roche’s cobas® Mass Spec solution. This collaboration introduces fully automated mass spectrometry into [...]