NuProbe Announces Licensing Deal with Oxford Nanopore

Partnership to support highly sensitive variant analysis in cancer research HOUSTON & SHANGHAI - NuProbe Global, a global molecular diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and Houston, TX, has signed an agreement with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, where Oxford Nanopore has licensed NuProbe's Blocker Displacement Amplification technology globally for undisclosed consideration. The technology combination offers the [...]

Fluidigm Completes Acquisition of InstruNor AS

Acquisition to expand Fluidigm’s industry-leading mass cytometry capabilities and address flow cytometry markets with the addition of fully automated sample prep SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation (Nasdaq: FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of InstruNor [...]

Twist Bioscience and SOPHiA GENETICS Collaborate to Offer Optimized Genomic Solutions

OUTH 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 SOPHiA GENETICS, leader in Data-Driven Medicine to bring access to the universal SOPHiA Platform for advanced genomic analysis to Twist’s customers, providing the analysis [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific President and Chief Executive Officer Marc N. Casper Elected Chairman of the Board of Directors

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that its board of directors has elected president and chief executive officer Marc N. Casper, 51, as chairman, effective immediately. Casper will continue in his role as president and chief executive officer, which he has held since October [...]

Meridian’s Novel Air-Dryable qPCR Mix Decreases Costs and Simplifies Workflows for Molecular Test Manufacturers

CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO), following the extremely successful launch of the Lyo-Ready qPCR mixes, is proud to introduce today its Air-Dryable qPCR Mix. This specialized master mix offers a cost-effective and easier alternative to freeze-drying for ambient temperature stable real-time PCR assays. Meridian’s Air-Dryable qPCR Mix has been designed to simplify assay [...]

Labconco Announces Jeff Stanton as New Executive Vice President

GE HEALTHCARE LIFE SCIENCES AND GOSILICO AGREE TO CO-MARKET CHROMX MECHANISTIC MODELING SOFTWARE

THE AGREEMENT FACILITATES THE ADOPTION OF CHROMX BY SCIENTISTS AND USERS OF RESINS, COLUMNS, AND CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEMS INTO THEIR DOWNSTREAM PROCESS DEVELOPMENT WORKFLOWS FOR THE BENEFIT OF ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT TIMELINES AND IMPROVED PROCESS ROBUSTNESS. Uppsala, Sweden and Karlsruhe, Germany –  GE Healthcare Life Sciences and GoSilico, a software company, have signed an agreement to co-market [...]

The Julius Wolf Institute at the Charité installs mission-critical MILabs microCT for in-vivo studies of musculoskeletal regeneration

Berlin-Germany and Utrecht, Netherlands The Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has installed a MILabs extra ultra-high resolution microCT (U-CT XUHR) system as an essential research tool to study the interplay between biology and mechanical strain. The unit will be used to to study the effects of [...]

Seven Bridges Announces Transformative Solution for Analyzing Genomic and Phenotypic Data to Accelerate Novel Drug Development

Seven Bridges ARIA™ Will Support Research Projects at the 1M+ Participant Scale BOSTON -- Seven Bridges, the industry-leading bioinformatics ecosystem provider, today announced Seven Bridges ARIA™, the first cloud-based solution aimed at improving and accelerating the discovery of meaningful connections between genomics, health data and biological knowledge at the 1M+ participant scale. By connecting genetics and [...]

TwinStrand Biosciences Launches Duplex Sequencing Technology

SEATTLE -- TwinStrand Biosciences™, a next-generation DNA sequencing technology company, today announced the launch of TwinStrand Duplex Sequencing™ Technology kits at the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) General Meeting in Marco Island, Florida. At launch, the company will offer their platform technology for two research applications: detection of minimal residual disease in acute [...]

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