EpiCypher® signs agreement with Thermo FIsher Scientific to deliver best-in-class ChIP-grade antibodies specific for histone PTMs

Research Triangle Park, NC and Carlsbad, CA – EpiCypher®, a pioneer in the manufacture of functionalized recombinant nucleosomes, announced today the signing of an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in servicing science, to provide co-exclusive use of EpiCypher’s SNAP-ChIP® technology. SNAP-ChIP® (Sample Normalization andAntibody Profiling for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation) is a proprietary spike-in control developed by EpiCypher that can [...]

LabTwin Partners With BioRN to Bring Voice-powered Technology Into German Labs

BERLIN -- LabTwin GmbH, the world's first voice and AI-powered digital lab assistant, has joined forces with BioRN Life Science Cluster to expand its offering to the Rhine-Main-Neckar Region in Germany. As part of this collaboration, BioRN members will have access to LabTwin's platform. LabTwin uses machine learning and voice-recognition technologies to assist scientists with day-to-day tasks, saving [...]

NASA Laboratory to Expand their Investigation of the Solar System’s Origin — with Unique Mass Spectrometer from Nu Instruments

North Wales, UK — This summer, planetary scientists at NASA will achieve new levels of precision in their investigations into the origin of the Solar System with the delivery of Nu Instruments’ Sapphire 1700 Multi-Collector ICP-MS— the world's largest commercially-built multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. Designed specifically for NASA, the Sapphire 1700 MS will provide agency [...]

US Patent Office Grants Charpentier/Doudna Key CRISPR Patent

US patent number 10,266,850 was previously involved in an interference proceeding  DUBLIN, Ireland: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, announced today that the US Patent Office has issued US patent number 10,266,850 to Dr. Charpentier, together with The Regents of the [...]

Cell Microsystems Receives New NIH Grants for Automating CRISPR Workflows

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--Cell Microsystems, a provider of innovative tools for single cell research, announced today it has received two NIH Small Business Innovation and Research awards totaling $1.9M to automate CRISPR workflows using its proprietary CellRaft Technology. Nick Trotta, PhD, Director of Genomics Programs, described the awards saying, “These grants will accelerate our on-going [...]

Chairman Klas Cramborn has passed away after a period of illness

By reason of chairman Klas Cramborn’s death, the Board of Directors of Phase Holographic Imaging (PHI) has decided to appoint Mats Lundwall as acting chairman of the Board. “Klas has meant a lot to PHI’s development. With his strategic skills in combination integrity and humor Klas has led the Board in a very commendable way [...]

MGISP-100 Automated Sample Preparation System Receives Certification as Class II Medical Device

On April 3, MGI's new automated sample preparation system received a Class IImedical device registration certificate, the first one-stop gene sequencing preparation system in China to receive the certification. The MGISP-100 automated sample preparation system is an automated workstation developed by MGI . It features comprehensive functions, high efficiency, stable operation and strong expandability, and [...]

Chiral Technologies Announces 2019 Promotions and New Hires

WEST CHESTER, PA – Chiral Technologies, Inc., part of DAICEL CORPORATION, the global market leader in enantioselective chromatography, begins 2019 by announcing the promotions of two key leaders and the addition of two sales Managers to the Company. Lisa Newton promoted to Vice President, Sales.  Newton joined Chiral Technologies in 2003. In her former role as [...]

Allele and Addgene Partner to Increase Academic Access to the World’s Brightest Monomeric Fluorescent Protein

April 23rd, 2019 -- Allele Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Inc., a San Diego based biotechnology company focused on the development and clinical translation of cutting-edge technologies, has partnered with Addgene, a global nonprofit organization helping scientists share plasmids, to further facilitate academic use of mNeonGreen. Addgene will leverage its field-leading distribution platform to increase the availability [...]

Illumina Accelerator graduate companies have raised $190 million so far from leading life science and tech investors

Illumina Accelerator graduate companies have raised $190 million so far from leading life science and tech investors Illumina Accelerator turns five this year and is welcoming its ninth class of genomics startups to the growing network of successful companies. Since launching in 2014, Illumina Accelerator, the first business accelerator focused on creating an innovative ecosystem for early-stage genomics [...]

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