Inscripta Launches the World’s First Benchtop Platform for Digital Genome Engineering

The Onyx™ platform enables scientists to create libraries of millions of precisely engineered single cells in one experiment through a fully automated workflow Inscripta, Inc., today announced the launch of the Onyx™ Digital Genome Engineering platform, the world’s first fully automated benchtop instrument for genome-scale engineering. The CRISPR-mediated, massively parallel platform — which includes software, consumables, instrument, and assays — enables [...]

Molecular Assemblies Announces $12.2 M Series A Financing to Advance Enzymatic DNA Synthesis for Life Sciences and Data Storage

SAN DIEGO — Molecular Assemblies, Inc., today announced that it has raised a $12.2 million Series A financing led by iSelect Fund and joined by existing investors, Agilent Technologies, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Keshif Ventures. The proceeds of the financing will be used to advance the company’s proprietary enzymatic DNA synthesis technology to power DNA-based products [...]

Shimadzu’s New Nexera Preparative Supercritical Fluid Chromatography System Meets SFC Purification Needs for the Pharmaceutical Industry

  Shimadzu Corporation, in partnership with the Enabling Technologies Consortiumâ„¢ (ETC), announces the release of the Nexera Preparative Supercritical Fluid Chromatography System, “Nexera UC Prep”. This next-generation prep SFC system provides the pharmaceutical industry with reliable high-performance semi-prep purification. The Nexera UC Prep is part of Shimadzu Nexera UC platform, which accommodates a wide variety [...]

Azure Biosystems launches their next generation of imaging systems for western blots and more

Dublin, Calif. – Azure Biosystems is excited to announce the launch of their next generation of western blot imagers, the Azure Imaging Systems, which are designed to make generating quantitative data from Western blots easier than ever. Like the cSeries systems that they are replacing, the new Azure 200, 280, 300, 400, 500, and 600 Imaging [...]

QIAGEN launches enhanced GeneGlobe Design & Analysis Hub, combining curated knowledge, content-based assays and analyses for life science research

Secure cloud-based platform now combines gene target exploration, custom assay configuration and data analysis with ability to conduct follow-up experiments Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of its newly enhanced GeneGlobe Design & Analysis Hub, bringing next-level experiment planning, execution and follow-up to life science researchers. [...]

Phenomenex, Inc. Improves Immunocapture Workflow by Offering New Magnetic Beads

Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research, design and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces bioZen MagBeads to their existing selection of bioZen biological workflow products. BioZen MagBeads are streptavidin coated paramagnetic beads ideal for capturing and isolating proteins and peptides more effectively and faster prior to analysis with bioZen Peptide LC Columns. While [...]

Inari Agriculture Selects L7 Informatics’ Enterprise Science Platform to Unify Global Operations

Rapid growth and global research facilities expansion over last 12 months necessitated a next-generation life science technology platform AUSTIN, Texas -- Inari, a seed company revolutionizing plant breeding by tapping into natural genetic diversity, selected L7 Informatics, the leader in life + crop science informatics platforms, to integrate Inari's global research data, processes and bioinformatics. Founded in 2016 by [...]

New Duke Center Takes Aim at the Dark Genome

Spanning Duke University and Duke Health, the Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies will use homegrown tools and techniques to discover potential therapies for human diseases from autism to cancer to schizophrenia The Duke Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies aims to investigate and re-engineer the inner workings of cellular gene regulation machinery and networks In an [...]

Illumina and Broad Institute Announce Agreement to Co-Develop Genomic Secondary Analysis Tools

Collaboration Aims to Combine the Benefits of GATK Suite and DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform To Create Best-in-Class Open-Source Software for Secondary Genomic Analysis SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard today announced they have entered into a collaboration for the co-development of secondary genomic analysis algorithms and software. Top data scientists [...]

Horizon Discovery signs license agreement with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals for GS knockout CHO cell line for manufacture of biotherapeutics

Glenmark signs full commercial-use license for Horizon’s gene-edited CHO cells Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, today announced the full commercial licensing to Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a global innovative pharmaceutical company, of its gene-edited Glutamine Synthetase (“GS”) [...]

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