Ovation.io, a next-generation clinical informatics company, today announced Series A funding of $5 million led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from new investors Borealis Ventures, Nat Turner, Zach Weinberg, and existing investors StagedotO and David Shaw. Ovation.io provides operations and intelligence software for next-generation precision diagnostic labs. Ovation will use the funding to accelerate lab deployment [...]

Enhanced Focus on Pharma and Biopharma Software and Workflow Solutions BILLERICA, Mass. -- Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced that it has acquired Arxspan LLC, a provider of cloud-based scientific software and workflow solutions, based in Southborough, Massachusetts. Arxspan is known for its line of cloud-based products for the management of research data under the Arxlab® brand. [...]

COLUMBIA, Md. — Shimadzu Corporation announces the release of the Nexera Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph series, incorporating artificial intelligence as Analytical Intelligence, allowing systems to detect and resolve issues automatically. The Nexera series makes lab management simple by integrating IoT and device networking, enabling users to easily review instrument status, optimize resource allocation, and achieve higher [...]

AMSBIO has added a new range of GCaMP calcium indicators (jGCaMP7b, jGCaMP7c, jGCaMP7f, jGCaMP7s) to their portfolio of ready-to-use adeno-associated virus (AAV) biosensor products. These viruses encoded biosensors are supplied ready for use for neural activity studies in vivo. AAV Biosensors provide a snapshot of intracellular interactions, specifically active brain circuitry. Using fluorescent protein-based AAV biosensors allows permanent [...]

Prof Hon-Ming Lam from The Chinese University of Hong Kong teamed with BGI Genomics and other experts to complete the first reference-grade wild soybean genome, published in Nature Communications Soybean is an economically important crop first domesticated in China. Wild soybeans contain genes that could be used to improve agronomic traits of cultivated soybean, including stress [...]

Walkersville, MD (USA) / Basel, Switzerland – Lonza has further strengthened its extensive mycoplasma detection portfolio with the addition of the Lucetta™ 2 Luminometer, a single-tube system designed to simplify and accelerate mycoplasma detection in cell cultures. Pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic researchers can now rely on this compact, portable and easy-to-use instrument to run Lonza’s MycoAlert™ Mycoplasma [...]

SUNNYVALE, CA – JSR announced today that it will establish a US headquarters for its biotechnology and life sciences focused businesses under the name JSR Life Sciences, LLC effective April 1, 2019.  The formation of JSR Life Sciences will centralize leadership and resources to support the company’s value proposition of driving innovation to provide a portfolio [...]

Dr. Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal to step down as chairwoman of the supervisory board Joseph Fernandez to assume responsibilities until a suitable successor is found Heidelberg, Germany and Cambridge, UK – Expedeon AG(Frankfurt: EXN; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced that Dr. Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal is to step down as chairwoman of the supervisory board effective April 4, [...]

IonSense’s DART-MS technology to be presented at Pittcon, March 17-21 in Philadelphia, PA SAUGUS, Mass. -- IonSense, Inc. has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Government Scientific Source (GSS), the leading dedicated supplier of laboratory products and equipment to federal, state, and local governments.  The agreement will enable GSS to provide Direct [...]

MR Solutions remains the only manufacturer of cryogen free superconducting MRI scanners with commercially installed systems in operation   MR Solutions which continues to lead the way in technological innovation in preclinical scanning systems has over the last year expanded its offering with a range of four CT scanners, extended its cryogen free range of [...]