GINKGO BIOWORKS AND BERKELEY LIGHTS BRING UNPRECEDENTED SPEED AND SCALE TO SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY WITH $150MM COLLABORATION

Collaboration brings best-in-class technology to Ginkgo foundries, with a commitment to ongoing joint technology development   BOSTON, Mass. and EMERYVILLE, Calif. – Ginkgo Bioworks, the organism company and Berkeley Lights, Inc., a company dedicated to finding the best cells, today announced a $150MM collaboration. Through a multi-year, non-exclusive agreement, Ginkgo will incorporate Berkeley Lights’ state-of-the-art optofluidic platform into [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Enhances Leading Pharma Services Offering by Expanding API Manufacturing Capabilities

Expansion follows the Completion of the Acquisition of GSK Manufacturing Site in Cork, Ireland CORK, Ireland – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announced the expansion of its API manufacturing capabilities following the completion of its previously announced acquisition of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Approximately 400 [...]

Certara Launches BaseCase Data Studio, Enabling Pharma and MedTech Clients to Conduct Advanced Data Analyses During Value-based Product Discussions

BaseCase platform can now perform live statistical modeling and sophisticated data analyses, delivering evidence-based claims to support value messages during payer, provider and HCP discussions   PRINCETON, NJ – Certara®, the global model-informed drug development and decision support leader, today announced the launch of BaseCase Data Studio, the newest product for its BaseCase value communications platform. Certara’s BaseCase [...]

Erika Söderberg Johnson leaves Biotage

Erika Söderberg Johnson has today informed Biotage that she, after eight years of employment, is leaving the position as CFO. Erika Söderberg Johnson has a six months notice period. The company will now initiate the recruitment of a successor. This information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, [...]

New Senior Director Biophotonics & Materials

TOPTICA Photonics AG is pleased to announce that Dr. Holger Quast has been appointed as Senior Director Biophotonics & Materials effective October 1st, 2019. Dr. Holger Quast will take over the strategic and operational management of TOPTICA's Biophotonics & Microscopy and Test & Measurement divisions. He received his doctorate at the TU Berlin under Prof. [...]

REAGECON CATION & ANION STANDARDS

Reagecon has a new and extended range of Cation and Anion Standards for ICP-MS/ICP-OES, Ion Chromatography, Atomic Absorption and Flame Photometry. These ranges come in a variety of concentrations, pack sizes and matrices. They are available as Single Element or Multi Element mixtures. Many customised and private label options are also available. See more on Cation and Anion Standards [...]

LGC becomes first bioanalytical Contract Research Organisation to offer HD-X platform in a regulated environment

LGC is delighted to announce the launch of its Quanterix Simoa HD-X automated analyser, thus becoming the first bioanalytical Contract Research Organisation in Europe to offer HD-X platform in a regulated environment. The HD-X - the very latest fully automated technology platform from Quanterix for developing and performing digital immunoassays – has been unveiled at [...]

PGI Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against PacBio

HSINCHU, Taiwan -- Personal Genomics Taiwan, Inc. ("PGI"), today announced that it has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delawareagainst Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. ("PacBio"). The complaint asserts that PacBio's Sequel and Sequel II, as well as related commercialization activities by PacBio, infringe one or more claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,767,441 (the [...]

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 [...]

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