GenapSys Launches Sequencer in Asia Amid Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak and Announces up to $75 Million New Funding

GenapSys’s highly accurate sequencer is poised to help researchers and public health officials across Asia better track and understand the outbreak Redwood City, Calif. -- GenapSys Inc. announced today the launch of its gene sequencer in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, including in Korea, Singapore, Japan, and the fast-growing Chinese gene sequencing market, which is [...]

Agilent Technologies Announces Twist Bioscience Agrees to Pay $22.5 Million Settlement in IP Litigation

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has reached an agreement with Twist Bioscience under which Twist has agreed to pay Agilent a sum of $22.5 million to settle Agilent’s claims against Twist, as well as current and former Twist employees Emily Leproust, Siyuan Chen, and Solange Glaize. The claims [...]

Twist Bioscience Announces Settlement Agreement with Agilent

SAN FRANCISCO -- 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 it has reached a settlement agreement with Agilent Technologies to resolve all claims and counterclaims in the trade secret litigation filed by Agilent on February 3, 2016. Under [...]

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former US FDA Commissioner, joins Illumina’s Board of Directors

SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Scott Gottlieb, M.D. has joined the company’s Board of Directors, effective February 4, 2020. Dr. Gottlieb is currently a special partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). From 2017 to 2019, he served as [...]

Yokogawa Reaffirms Commitment to North America Through Expanded Presence

Houston, Texas – Salt Lake City kicks off spate of new local technology service centers designed to strengthen customer experience and access to global expertise As technological advances fuel a constant state of transformation across North American process industries, Yokogawa Corporation of America has opened four new technology service centers across the U.S. These new [...]

Intabio Closes $18 Million Round in Series B Funding to Build Commercial Team and Launch Blaze™ Platform

NEWARK, Calif. -- Intabio, a developer of instrumentation systems for biotherapeutic precision analysis and quality assessment throughout bioproduction, today announced a Series B investment of $18 million. The financing round was led by Northpond Ventures, with additional funds coming from Genoa Ventures and Vertical Venture Partners. In a testament to Intabio's steady progress, the step-up valuation [...]

Dassault Systèmes Opens Up New Horizons: 3DEXPERIENCE from Things to Life

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France — Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today unveiled its strategic direction for the coming years, focused on transforming how people are cured and helping them live a better life by making the virtual twin experience of the human body possible.  Virtual twin experiences open up new possibilities for life sciences and healthcare by enabling research, medical, [...]

Eurofins successfully certifies kits and software with French Association of Standards (AFNOR)

Freiburg, Germany | Boston, MA | Today, Eurofins GeneScan Technologies GmbH and UgenTec, Inc. announce the successful NF VALIDATION certification of five real-time PCR kits with the French Association of Standards (AFNOR). The submission and approval are part of an ongoing strategic partnership between Eurofins Genescan Technologies, a provider of RNA / DNA detection kits and UgenTec, a software company [...]

New Tubes from Hamilton Storage Will Keep Your Automation Systems Running

Tubes and RackWare Racks with Long-Term Design Stability Ensure Uninterrupted Operation in Biobanking and Compound Storage Applications Franklin, Mass.  – Hamilton Storage debuted its new sample storage tubes and new RackWare racks at the recent SLAS 2020 International Conference & Exhibition. The tubes and racks offer hassle-free operation and stability in automated storage workflows. Long-term consistency in design [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces NGS-Based Solution for Expanded Carrier Screening Research

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific today introduced a new next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based solution that enables reproductive health researchers to more efficiently analyze a broad range of key genetic markers with an end-to-end workflow. The Ion Torrent CarrierSeq ECS Kit for the Ion GeneStudio S5 System consolidates a multi-platform approach to expanded carrier screening (ECS) into a single solution [...]

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