Rijswijk, The Netherlands – BlueBee, a global bioinformatics solutions provider, has been awarded the HDS:2018 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS). The Hébergeurs de Données de Santé or Health Data Hosting (HDS) accreditation is required for entities hosting personal health data governed by French laws. The British Standards Institution (BSI) conducted the audit and confirmed [...]

Cambridge, Mass. – Beam Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today announced the successful completion of a $135 million Series B financing. Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the company’s development of next-generation CRISPR technologies, expand its pipeline of base editing programs, and further extend its scientific [...]

ADDITION OF NATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITY PROVIDES CLIENTS WITH INTUITIVE, INTERPRETABLE, AND INTERACTIVE BIOMARKER-BASED MODELS Bethesda, MD – Precision for Medicine, part of Precision Medicine Group, today announced the acquisition of SimplicityBio, adding artificial intelligence to Precision’s QuartzBio™ multiomic data integration and informatics platform. The addition of an artificial intelligence engine to QuartzBio provides Precision’s [...]

Canopy Biosciences™ LLC, a leading provider of gene editing and gene expression products and services, announced today that they had exclusively licensed technology for error correction in next generation sequencing (NGS)... ST. LOUIS -- Canopy Biosciences™ LLC, a leading provider of gene editing and gene expression products and services, announced today that they had exclusively licensed [...]

March 5, 2019 Boai NKY Medical Holdings Ltd. and Illumina, Inc. will jointly develop novel hereditary disease testing applications utilizing Illumina’s next generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The collaboration is a significant step toward National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) review and approval, and is a starting point to deliver precision medicine products and services to patients throughout [...]

(Boston, MA and Leuven, Belgium) – Invicro LLC, a Konica Minolta company and icometrix jointly announced a partnership that will seamlessly offer the world’s most comprehensive breadth of imaging core lab services combined with the most robust FDA-cleared MRI informatics capabilities through automated workflows. Pharmaceutical sponsors will experience one point of contact for study site set-up and [...]

Certara will partner with CDC to create OpenMDI (Open Medicolegal Death Investigation), a national system that will collect and share mortality data efficiently, allowing CDC to respond rapidly to critical public health priorities, such as tracking and understanding the toxicology behind drug overdoses from opioids PRINCETON, NJ – Certara®, the global leader in model-informed drug [...]

Loop Genomics deploys new sequencing technology and protocols to provide unparalleled insight into transcriptome research SAN JOSE, Calif.-- Loop Genomics, the single molecule counting long-read sequencing company with a hardware free solution, has expanded its kit and services capabilities to provide researchers with the first solution that provides both transcript counting and phasing for mRNA using [...]

Proteomics company now producing glass slides printed with recombinant human proteins containing over 21,000 human proteins and protein isoforms, including >81% of canonically expressed proteins as defined by the Human Protein Atlas for high through­put analytics, contract research and hybridoma development services. MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico and BALTIMORE -- CDI Laboratories, Inc. has announced that ~2,000 new recombinant proteins have [...]

St. Joseph, Mich. — LECO Corporation, a global leader in analytical instrumentation and mass spectrometers, and Restek, a leading independent developer and manufacturer of chromatography products, are pleased to announce their recent expanded collaboration. This agreement will allow LECO customers access to a core set of Restek consumables—streamlining the customer’s setup and offering the convenience of one [...]