Kewaunee Announces Resignation of William A. Shumaker as Chairman of the Board of Directors

STATESVILLE, N.C. -- Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (NASDAQ: KEQU) announced today the resignation of William A. Shumaker as Chairman of the Board of Directors and as a Director of the Company, effective January 31, 2019.  Mr. Shumaker cited personal reasons as the basis for his decision. Mr. Shumaker joined Kewaunee in 1993 as Vice President for Sales and Marketing.  He became President [...]

Computer Aided Biology Pioneer Synthace Secures $25.6 Million in Series B Funding

LONDON--Synthace Ltd., the company behind the leading cloud software platform for automating and improving the success rate of biological research and development, today announced the closing of a $25.6m Series B financing round led by Horizons Ventures with additional investment from Luminous Ventures, SOSV and select other individual and large family office investors. Synthace will use [...]

Excelitas Technologies Announces Agreement to Acquire Axsun Technologies

Excelitas expands portfolio of high performance photonics solutions serving the Medical and Industrial markets. WALTHAM, Mass. Excelitas Technologies® Corp., a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized photonic solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Axsun Technologies (Billerica, MA USA). Axsun is a privately-held company specializing in the development and production [...]

RURO Announces Limfinity® ML – Machine Learning Module For Limfinity®

RURO, Inc., a leading provider of LIMS, LIS, RFID and other life science software solutions, announces the Limfinity® ML (Machine Learning) addition for its Limfinity® 7 framework. Adding Limfinity® ML to a Limfinity® solution is a straightforward processing including the configuration of input and output data fields. With continued use, trained models may capture relationships [...]

Improved Accuracy and Speed for Disease Research, Two Genomic Companies Integrate Kits and Software to Enable Deep Exploration of Epigenetic Data

OnRamp’s ROSALIND and Active Motif offer an improved ChIP-Seq data analysis experience for researchers with state-of-the-art dynamics track plots and advanced collaboration capabilities SAN DIEGO -- OnRamp BioInformatics, a genomics company focused on scientist-friendly bioinformatics software solutions, today announced they are working with Active Motif to improve accuracies in data analysis for ChIP-Seq experiments. OnRamp’s flagship [...]

LabsUSA Selected to Supply Lab Equipment and Lab Furniture for New Material Testing Laboratory

LabsUSA of Salt Lake City was recently selected by Dyad Labs to provide the lab furniture the lab equipment for Dyad Labs when they established a new material testing laboratory. Salt Lake City, Utah - Dyad Labs selected LabsUSA for the design and layout of the lab furniture and equipment needed for a new material testing [...]

LGC acquires M.B.H. Analytical

LGC has announced that it has acquired M.B.H. Analytical Limited, (MBH) a leading manufacturer of metal alloy reference materials (RMs). Located in Barnet, north London, MBH was founded in 1973 and is certified to ISO 9001:2015. Its RMs are used globally for quality control testing and material validation, including positive materials identification testing, in a [...]

NOVO NORDISK PURCHASES BERKELEY LIGHTS’ BEACON® OPTOFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR CELL LINE DEVELOPMENT AND ANTIBODY DISCOVERY

Berkeley Lights, Inc. and Novo Nordisk today announced that Novo Nordisk has purchased the Beacon®Optofluidic platform to accelerate workflows in cell line development and to use the platform for future protein and antibody discovery. “We are committed to raising the height of our innovation by adopting new technologies that make drug discovery and development more [...]

Caribou Biosciences Appoints Dr. Natalie Sacks to Board of Directors

BERKELEY, CA – Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a leading genome editing company, announced today that it has appointed Natalie Sacks, MD to its Board of Directors. Dr. Sacks is an accomplished industry leader and oncology expert who has played a key role in the development and approval of several oncology therapeutics. “We are excited to welcome [...]

Clustermarket Taps in to GE Healthcare Life Sciences Customers to Reach UK Innovators

Clustermarket, the leading UK online scientific equipment sharing and booking platform, has enlisted the support of GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business in an agreement aimed at helping innovators in the UK access specialized life sciences and biotech equipment.  LONDON Clustermarket’s platform will allow owners of GE Healthcare Life Sciences instruments to hire out and maximize [...]

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