MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) announced today it has reached agreement to acquire all of the stock of B-MoGen Biotechnologies Inc. The transaction has been completed and is being financed through available cash on hand. "We are very pleased to include the B-MoGen technology in Bio-Techne's expanding portfolio of products that serve the rapidly growing [...]

(INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences today announced its acquisition of Cytobank, a privately held, single cell data analysis, software as a service (SaaS) company based in Santa Clara, California. Cytobank provides an industry-leading, cloud and machine learning-based software platform for multi-parametric single-cell data analysis, sharing and archiving. The platform accelerates research productivity by enabling efficient [...]

DNA/RNA SHIELD™ PROTECTS BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES EVEN IN SPACE Zymo Research received recognition from NASA for their cooperation and dedication in the development of a unique sample collection tube to support human research aboard the International Space Station. IRVINE, Calif. — Zymo Research recently received recognition and appreciation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Human Research [...]

Novel bioinformatics-powered multi-guide design guarantees gene knockouts in any human-derived cell type, eliminating trial-and-error in CRISPR guide design REDWOOD CITY, California -- Synthego, a leading genome engineering solutions company, today announced the launch of the Gene Knockout Kit v2. This is the only product that leverages a novel bioinformatics- powered multi-guide strategy to guarantee a gene knockout. [...]

Chairman and CEO Kevin Hrusovsky to present at BIO and provide details about the HD-X launch and vision for continuing to pioneer disruption in healthcare with digital biomarkers Billerica, Mass. – Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ:QTRX), a company digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, announced that it issued approximately 2.2 million [...]

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN) (“Applied DNA” or the “Company”), provides an update today on its accomplishments toward commercial-scale production to support global material traceability for companies declaring sustainability goals to be achieved by 2020. High on the consumer watchlist is the plastics recycling issue. Applied DNA’s CertainT® platform provides the evidence that [...]

USPTO issues sixth CRISPR-Cas9-related patent to University of California for genome editing and modulation of gene expression BERKELEY, Calif. -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new patent (U.S. Patent No. 10,308,961) to University of California (UC) covering additional methods of using the CRISPR-Cas9 system. The unique methods form a toolset for both editing genes and [...]

CovalX has partnered with Shimadzu Scientific Instruments to offer the OMEGATOF, an integrated MALDI solution for ultra high-mass detection.  With a focus on the detection of large molecules including biotherapeutics, protein complexes, aggregates, and antibody-antigen interactions in a benchtop footprint at an affordable price.   The high-sensitivity OMEGATOF combines the latest high-performance from the Shimadzu 8020linear MALDI TOF mass [...]

Cambridge: Qkine, specialist manufacturer of proteins for stem cell, organoid and regenerative medicine applications has closed a further round of investment. The £550k funding round was led by Cambridge Enterprise and five angel investors – all of whom followed initial seed investments made in April 2018. Joining the original investors is biotech entrepreneur and founder member of [...]

Inserm fully implements Electronic Lab Notebook, Labguru, to digitize all experiment information Paris, France – BioData has announced the roll-out of its Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) platform, Labguru, with Inserm, France’s only public research institute to focus entirely on human health. Inserm made the strategic decision to digitize its laboratory workflows in a uniform way by [...]