Porvair Sciences has launched a new range of Liquid Handling Pipette Tip Filters that provide unmatched capabilities to block out aerosol and liquid contaminants. Hilary Bishop, Product Manager for Porous Products commented “Using our proprietary Vyon® porous plastics, the new pipette tip filters are fully compliant with FDA, USP Class VI and European Pharmacopoeia statutory regulations [...]

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 [...]

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”) [...]

Wädenswil/Zurich, Switzerland – Creoptix AG, a Switzerland-based company focused on next-generation bioanalytical instruments, today announced that is has raised CHF 8 million in the first closing as part of a Series C financing round. The round was led by Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank and joined by Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) as well as existing private investors. Robert [...]

More mutations, better annotations The Fall 2019 Release of the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) Professional is available, expanding the world’s largest collection of human inherited disease mutations to over 269,000 entries–that’s 6,278 more than the previous release. HGMD Professional is the de facto standard resource for comprehensive coverage of published germline mutations in nuclear [...]

New SCAPE 2.0 system can serve as a critical tool to advance science and medicine The Columbia team behind the revolutionary 3D SCAPE microscope announces today a new version of this high-speed imaging technology. In collaboration with scientists from around the world, they used SCAPE 2.0 to reveal previously unseen details of living creatures — [...]

The “command central” dashboard helps clinicians identify and prioritize patients who would benefit from genetic testing and implement a simplified genetic testing workflow LOS ALTOS, Calif. -- GenomeSmart, a Silicon Valley-based company delivering the first AI-powered genetic risk assessment and test recommendation platform that simplifies and reduces the burden of providing genetic assessment at scale, [...]

BERWYN, Pa. and SARASOTA, Fla. -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatan, a leading manufacturer of instrumentation and software used to enhance and extend the operation and performance of electron microscopes, from Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP) in an all-cash transaction valued at $925 million. Gatan is a pioneer in direct detection [...]

Hesperos, Inc., (www.hesperosinc.com) announced today the University of Central Florida (UCF) received the first phase of a $3.8 million milestone-based National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for research involving the company’s human-on-a-chip system. “We are grateful to have funding to support research in an area that represents such a large and growing need,” said Dr. [...]

The first cement solidification tests performed in a microgravity environment recently took place on the International Space Station (ISS) using the Air Science® Purair FLEX Portable Isolator. The Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) project explored the complex prosses of whether solidifying cement in microgravity would result in unique microstructure differences to concrete processed on ground, seeking [...]