NEW YORK – Schrödinger, a privately held company revolutionizing drug discovery and materials design through advanced molecular simulations, today announced the appointment of veteran biotech leader Rosana Kapeller, M.D., Ph.D., to its board of directors. “I am delighted and honored to join Schrödinger during such a pivotal time in the company’s growth,” said Dr. Kapeller. [...]

Today the European Patent Office revoked Pacific Biosciences patent EP3045542 with claims to a single molecule sequencing process wherein two strands of DNA are linked by a connecting nucleic acid. The validity of the patent had been challenged by Oxford Nanopore. The EPO ruled that the claims to a single molecule sequencing process were unsupported [...]

Scilligence Joins Accenture’s Life Sciences Research Platform Ecosystem to Help Drive Innovation in Drug Discovery and Scientific Research BOSTON: Scilligence, a provider of mobile cheminformatics and bioinformatics for the life sciences industry, has joined the Accenture research platform open partner ecosystem, which will allow for the integration of Scilligence’s informatics solutions. Scilligence’s proprietary technologies address three [...]

Berkeley Lights Further Extends into Asian Market Emeryville, Calif., Cambridge, Mass, Shanghai, China– Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), the leader in digital cell biology, announced today that Harbour BioMed, a global biopharmaceutical company has acquired the Beacon® Optofluidic platform to implement accelerated workflows for single-cell screening and analysis. “Harbour BioMed is pleased to integrate the Berkeley Lights Beacon platform [...]

Based on the content of TruSight Oncology 500, the proposed in vitro diagnostic will receive prioritized review and resources Today, Illumina announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Device Designation for its pan-cancer assay. Currently in development, with plans to be marketed as TruSight™ Oncology Comprehensive, the assay is based on [...]

As the Number of Analytical Monitoring Tests for Biopharmaceuticals Skyrockets, Waters Builds Intelligence into a Fit-for-Purpose System MILFORD, Mass.--Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today introduced the BioAccord™ System, a purposefully designed liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) solution that will expand access to high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry capabilities to more scientists. The BioAccord System promises to move routine monitoring out [...]

Scailyte AG, a Swiss startup in the emerging and rapidly growing field of single-cell technologies, raised CHF 2.75M in seed funding and gained Swisscom Ventures as a strategic investor. Zürcher Kantonalbank also joined the financing round, alongside the existing shareholders, thus reaffirming their trust in the competence and vision of Scailyte’s team. Dominique Megret, Head of Swisscom Ventures, [...]

WILMINGTON, Delaware, USA   DeNovix Inc. announces the launch of the CellDrop Automated Cell Counter. CellDrop is the first instrument to incorporate DeNovix’ patent-pending DirectPipette™ Technology, removing the need for expensive, environmentally damaging plastic slides. Drawing on technology from the multi award-winning DS-11 Series Spectrophotometer / Fluorometer, CellDrop brings the simple Load, Measure & Wipe Clean [...]

St. Joseph, Mich. - LECO is pleased to introduce a new FLUX™ flow modulator option for routine GCxGC analysis. While LECO’s traditional thermal modulation alternative is still available and provides for the highest sensitivity, the FLUX flow modulator is a cost-effective option that makes GCxGC more accessible and easy to use. The new flow modulator’s extraordinarily simple design is [...]

- Costs less to install and ensures safe and energy-efficient operations - TDLS8100 probe type tunable diode laser spectrometer Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has developed the TDLS8100 probe type tunable diode laser spectrometer and will release it for sale on January 23 as part of its OpreX™ Analyzer family. The TDLS8100 [...]