seqWell to Expand Product Portfolio with $9M Series B Financing
January 14, 2020
BEVERLY, Mass. -- seqWell has announced the close of a $9M Series B financing round with the goal of rapidly expanding its portfolio of genomics products into new areas such as single-cell genomics and transcriptomics. The company continues to drive its plexWell™ multiplexed library prep product offerings in growing markets such as high-throughput low-pass and targeted genotyping. [...]
OGT unveils reliable somatic CNV detection for CLL with new NGS panel
January 14, 2020
SureSeq™ CLL + CNV - comprehensive CLL genomic profiling from a single assay Oxford, UK – 14 January 2020. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), A Sysmex Group Company, is excited to announce the launch of its SureSeq CLL + CNV Panel — the company’s latest high-quality, next-generation sequencing (NGS) offering for research into Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL). The SureSeq CLL + [...]
January 14, 2020
Company continues to advance academic and industry access to precise CRISPR-based synthetic reagents for rapid clinical research and development across disease areas REDWOOD CITY, California – Synthego, the genome engineering company, today announced it has adopted Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards to provide academic and industry partners with high-quality reagents for use in clinical research and development [...]
Swift Biosciences Partners with MGI for High Throughput Genomic Sequencing
January 14, 2020
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Swift Biosciences, Inc. ("Swift"), a leader in design and manufacturing of unique DNA and RNA library preparation and normalization kits for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), and MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), a subsidiary of BGI Group, today announced a co-marketing agreement for Swift's DNA and RNA library preparation products in Europe and Asia Pacific markets. With [...]
SPECTRO Introduces its New SPECTROMAXx with iCAL 2.0 ARC/SPARK OES Analyzer
January 14, 2020
— Features Proven Accuracy, Outstanding Speed, Quick Standardization, Minimal Gas Use, Low Cost of Ownership — Kleve, Germany – SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has introduced the eighth generation of its SPECTROMAXx with iCAL 2.0 ARC/SPARK OES Analyzer — improved with innovative new capabilities and advancements in performance to achieve fast, accurate elemental analysis precisely tuned for material [...]
Nicoya Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding to Make Drug Discovery Digital
January 14, 2020
KITCHENER, ON – Nicoya, a leading provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series A financing. The funding round was led by Whitecap Venture Partners with participation from existing investors, including Garage Capital, MaRS IAF, Laurier Startup Fund, University of Waterloo Student Venture Fund, and others. [...]
Robot Compatible Solvent Removal Workstation
January 14, 2020
The new UltraVap Mistral XT 150 from Porvair Sciences provides unmatched automated dry down of organic solvent-based samples in tubes and microplates up to 150mm in length. Designed for easy integration with linear laboratory robots, the UltraVap Mistral XT 150 uses a sample shuttle which can serve and retrieve long tubes or microplates from the deck of [...]
Horizon Discovery to provide access to novel base editing technology
January 14, 2020
Next-generation gene editing system has applications in development of cell and gene therapies Base editing builds on CRISPR offering and will expand Horizon’s research tools and services Horizon seeks partners to assess and shape platform development Cambridge, UK, 14 January 2020: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”, “the Company” or “the Group”), a global [...]
January 14, 2020
BURLINGTON, N.C. & CARLSBAD, Calif.-- LabCorp® (NYSE: LH) announced it will adopt the Ion Torrent Genexus System* and Oncomine Precision Assay* for use in research and development of companion diagnostics as well as other future oncology and precision medicine applications. LabCorp will also evaluate the potential for future deployment of the system and test across [...]
January 13, 2020
First Infant Recently Screened for Most Prevalent Type of Muscular Dystrophies WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that it is providing the newborn screening assay for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy’s (PPMD’s) Newborn Screening Pilot for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (Duchenne). PPMD is a nonprofit organization leading the fight to [...]
