CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRKS) announced today that it has acquired RURO, Inc., an informatics software company based in Frederick, Maryland.  The total cash purchase price of the acquisition was $15 million, subject to customary working capital and other adjustments. RURO provides cloud-based software solutions to manage laboratory workflow and bio-sample data for a [...]

Paris ‐ Stilla Technologies, a leading provider of pioneering digital PCR (dPCR) solutions for high‐precision genetic analysis, has just raised €20 million ($22 million) in a Series B funding round that brought in a new investor, the Chinese group TUS‐Holdings, alongside the participation of existing investors Illumina Ventures, Kurma Partners, LBO France, Paris Saclay Seed [...]

SAN DIEGO – TriLink BioTechnologies®, a Maravai LifeSciences company and a leader in the production of nucleic acids for research, diagnostics and therapeutics applications, announced today the addition of two key executives to its leadership team. Ray Kaczmarek joins TriLink as senior vice president of GMP Operations.  Kaczmarek, who has over 20 years of experience [...]

Merck today introduced its BrightLab™ cloud-based inventory management and instrument connectivity platform for research scientists. Provides scientists with cloud-based tools to improve research efficiency, processes; automates data flow Instrument connectivity feature allows for accessible, real-time monitoring of centralized and synched lab data Software addresses lab management challenges such as manual data transcription and review Merck, [...]

Fluidiphore rapid amine 503 enables labeling in just 30 minutes with no need for purification   CAMBRIDGE, UK  – Fluidic Analytics Ltd, a pioneer in protein analysis and the company behind in-solution diffusional sizing, has launched a time-saving and affordable protein labeling kit—fluidiphore rapid amine 503. Absorbing at 503 nm, the new kit can be used with [...]

DUBLIN, Ireland, and VIENNA, Austria: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Aelian Biotechnology (“Aelian”) today announced the signing of a license agreement granting Aelian access to ERS Genomics' CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio, to support Aelian's commercial functional genomic screening platform.  Aelian [...]

Nottingham, UK: The new Inhaled Dissolution Dose Collector (IDDC) from Copley Scientific is a flexible, easy-to-use system for collecting the respirable fraction of the dose delivered by a metered dose or dry powder inhaler (MDI or DPI) for dissolution testing. The dissolution profile of inhaled drugs underpins therapeutic efficacy and is an area of increasing [...]

New Center of Excellence to Advance Highly Multiplexed Tissue Imaging in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research 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 that it will establish a new Center of Excellence (CoE) for Imaging Mass Cytometry™ at Georgetown [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fluidigm (Nasdaq:FLDM) today announced that Covance, the drug development business of LabCorp® (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company, has selected Fluidigm’s CyTOF® technology and the industry-leading Maxpar® Direct™ Immune Profiling Assay™ to develop highly multiplexed immune profiling services. Setting an industry first, high-multiplex mass cytometry enables clinical researchers to simultaneously profile [...]

DUBLIN, Ireland - ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property held by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, announced today that the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected arguments filed in opposition to European patent No. EP2800811 jointly held by Dr. Charpentier, the Regents of the University of California, and [...]