Pacific Biosciences Announces Retirement of Michael Phillips, SVP of Research and Development

Dr. Denis Zaccarin Succeeds Phillips to Lead Research and Development MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), a leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced that Michael Phillips has decided to retire from his role as the company’s Senior Vice President of Research and Development as of [...]

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 [...]

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