NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has created an open partner ecosystem designed to help independent software vendors (ISVs) and life sciences companies team more effectively to accelerate drug discovery efforts and, ultimately, improve patient outcomes. The ecosystem is an integral part of the cloud-based informatics research platform that Accenture and Merck (known as MSD outside the United [...]

KEELE (UK), PORT WASHINGTON, NY (USA) & LONDON (UK) – Cobra Biologics, an international contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with a focus on advanced therapy medicinal products(ATMPs) has won a £1.5m shared grant from Innovate UK, the United Kingdom’s innovation agency. Co-winners, Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, an [...]

SAN FRANCISCO--Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA, today announced the appointment of Jan Johannessen to the company’s board of directors. He will also serve as chair of the audit committee. Mr. Johannessen brings more than 25 years of executive and financial leadership experience [...]

Today, LGC announced the acquisition of SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc., a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories. SeraCare provides quality control materials for infectious disease testing through their ACCURUN® reagents as well as in the fast growing clinical next-generation sequencing (NGS) market which it addresses through its Seraseq® brand of [...]

Chicago, IL – Linden Capital Partners (“Linden”), a Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm, announced the sale of SeraCare Life Sciences (“SeraCare” or the “Company”) to LGC North America Inc. (“LGC”), a portfolio company of KKR & Co. Inc. SeraCare, a portfolio company of Linden Capital Partners, is a developer and manufacturer of biological products used [...]

DARMSTADT, GERMANY Jasper Bos is currently heading M Ventures’ healthcare fund Succeeds Roel Bulthuis, who will leave the company at the end of 2018 Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced the appointment of Jasper Bos as the new Managing Director of its strategic corporate venture capital arm M Ventures. He will follow Roel [...]

Testa Analytical Solutions e.K. has added the AYE Differential Refractometer to its existing line of high-performance instruments for chromatographic measurements. The AYE is a flexible differential refractometer that may be used in either static or dynamic mode. In static mode, the specific refractive index increment (dn/dc) of dissolved samples can be easily and precisely determined in just a few minutes. [...]

The renowned Innovative Technology Centre (ITC) at the University of Cambridge, UK has used a Uniqsis PhotoSyn flow photoreactor to efficiently scale-up a radical mediated boronic acid coupling under photoredox conditions using a novel organic acridium-based photocatalyst. The acridium-based organic photocatalyst, developed by the University of Cambridge, is demonstrated to be an efficient replacement for iridium-based photocatalysts [...]

THOROLD, ON Norgen Biotek Corp., an innovative privately held Canadian biotechnology company focusing primarily on nucleic acid and protein stabilization and purification, as well as providing high quality services to the scientific community, today announced that it has become Propel-Certified through Illumina as a Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) service provider. Norgen's Propel Certification covers both [...]

Cambridge, UK: Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce its new generation G:BOX Chemi XX6/XX9 multi-application imaging systems are now available. Featuring the latest, ultra-sensitive, fast capture lens, these systems ensure scientists can have total confidence that their gel and blot results are accurate and publication-ready. Utilising a state-of-the-art wide aperture f0.8 lens, the [...]