March 27, 2020
Irvine, CA – BioDot Inc. (BioDot or the Company), a leading manufacturer of automated ultralow volume fluid dispensing systems, announced today that it has been acquired by Artemis Capital Partners (Artemis), a Boston-based private equity firm focused exclusively on partnering with differentiated industrial technology companies. Since its founding in 1994, BioDot has become an undisputed leader [...]
Quanterix Statement on COVID-19 Preparedness, Resiliency Efforts and Business Continuity
March 27, 2020
BILLERICA, Mass -- Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), a company digitizing biomarker analysis to advance the science of precision health, today announced the following statement amid the continued COVID-19 global crisis, severely impacting public health and the economy. As COVID-19 continues to affect a growing number of people in the U.S. and around the world, Quanterix remains committed to the safety [...]
SOPHIA GENETICS AND PARAGON GENOMICS JOIN FORCES AGAINST THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
March 26, 2020
Lausanne, Switzerland, and Boston, United States: SOPHiA GENETICS, leader in Data-Driven Medicine, today announced that it is entering the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus by extending its partnership with Paragon Genomics, who developed a next-generation sequencing (NGS) assay and leveraging the SOPHiA Platform analytical capabilities, as well as delivering the benefits of this solution to [...]
March 26, 2020
In collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, La Jolla Institute for Immunology and Emory University, viral neutralization workflows on the Berkeley Lights platform are under accelerated development in response to the Coronavirus outbreak EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Berkeley Lights, Inc., announced the Global Emerging Pathogen Antibody Discovery Consortium (GEPAD) with founding members Dr. James Crowe and [...]
March 26, 2020
MELVILLE, N.Y., -- Nikon Instruments Inc., innovator of advanced microscope systems, today announced that it will assume direct representation for all Research Microscopy BioSystems products in the New England and Upstate New York regions. With increased demand from the scientific community for cutting-edge technology and highly skilled staff to properly support it, Nikon is well poised [...]
March 26, 2020
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-- Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced a collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to supply synthetic genes and antibodies for the development of therapies for COVID-19. In addition, Twist Biopharma, a division [...]
Tecan announces change in Management Board
March 26, 2020
Männedorf, Switzerland– The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that Markus Schmid, Head of Corporate Human Resources & Internal Communications and a member of the Group Management Board since 2011, will leave the company by no later than the end of April 2020. The search for a successor will be initiated. Tecan's Board of Directors [...]
INTEGRA, BioTools and Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology work together to accelerate COVID-19 testing
March 26, 2020
INTEGRA, BioTools and Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology work together to accelerate COVID-19 testing The global COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented demands on pathology services to test patient samples for the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus alongside their pre-existing respiratory virus panels. This extreme influx of samples quickly exhausted the capacity of existing systems in the Microbiology and Molecular Pathology Department at Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology (SNP) – part of [...]
ZAGENO Releases COVID-19 Data Addressing the Laboratory Supply Chain
March 25, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BERLIN -- ZAGENO, a leading enterprise marketplace solution connecting e-commerce to life science, today shared COVID-19-related data, which reveals the readiness and short-term impact to both supplier and biotech laboratory teams and the long-term implications of an industry disruption caused by a pandemic. Volumes have increased, considerably. Q1, year-over-year (2019-2020) volumes by [...]
QIAGEN Names Thierry Bernard as Chief Executive Officer
March 25, 2020
QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Thierry Bernard has been named Chief Executive Officer. Additionally, a Joint Meeting of the Supervisory Board and the Managing Board has resolved to propose Mr. Bernard, who has been with QIAGEN since 2015, for election as Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director at the [...]

