Market Update, Conditional Acquisition and Proposed Placing
December 20, 2018
DeepMatter, the AIM-listed company focusing on digitizing chemistry, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire from global publisher Springer Nature the entire issued share capital of Infochem GmbH (the "Acquisition" or "Infochem"), a specialist in cheminformatics, for a total consideration of approximately €2.0 million to be satisfied as to €0.36 million in [...]
Halo Labs Raises $5.6M in Series B Financing Round
December 20, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO -- Halo Labs, a life science instrumentation company developing tools for biologics researchers, today announced it has closed a $5.6M Series B financing round led by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT). The funding will be used to support the promising commercialization of Halo Labs' Horizon® subvisible particle analysis instrument and the continued development of the company's product pipeline. The Horizon instrument performs [...]
HitGen and Bayer Enter DNA-Encoded Library Based Research Collaboration
December 20, 2018
Program could lead to new crop protection solutions for farmers worldwide Chengdu, China. HitGen Ltd announced that the company has entered into a research collaboration with the Crop Science division of Bayer to identify novel small molecule leads for targets of interest. In this collaboration, HitGen will apply its advanced technology platform, based on DNA-encoded [...]
Azbil Telstar strengthens its subsidiary in India to drive its growing demand in South Asia
December 19, 2018
New Sales & Customer Services team appointments. Azbil Telstar’s subsidiary in India (Azbil Telstar India Company Limited), located in Hyderabad has been reinforced with new appointments to the Sales & Customer Service Divisions, to address an ongoing growth in demand for Life Sciences service & equipment solutions for the pharmaceutical & biotechnology industries. The new [...]
Gatan Acquisition Requires Further UK Review
December 19, 2018
WALTHAM, Mass. and SARASOTA, Fla. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, and Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP), a leading diversified technology company, today announced that Thermo Fisher's pending acquisition of Gatan, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Roper, requires further review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK. Both parties continue [...]
SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
December 19, 2018
The DAC is located in the coworking space WeWork. "This is a start-up culture that meets our expectations of the new working world", explains Reto Furrer, Managing Director of the DAC and CMO of the KNF Group. In such modern workplaces, freelancers, creative people, start-ups, but also established companies such as KNF go about their [...]
December 19, 2018
InSphero and Path BioAnalytics Announce Partnership to Develop Advanced 3D Airway Tissue Model for Cystic Fibrosis Research Path BioAnalytics to explore InSphero 3D cell technology to produce organoids from primary Cystic Fibrosis patient tissues to aid the development of new treatments Schlieren, Switzerland -- InSphero AG and Path BioAnalytics today announced a partnership through which [...]
December 19, 2018
SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that health officials from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom recently issued a recommendation that includes the use of the Prosigna® Breast Cancer Gene Signature Assay result to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions for [...]
Teledyne to Acquire Scientific Imaging Businesses of Roper Technologies
December 19, 2018
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and SARASOTA, Fla. – Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyne”) and Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ROP) (“Roper”) jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire the Scientific Imaging businesses of Roper for $225 million in cash. The Scientific Imaging businesses include Princeton Instruments, Photometrics and Lumenera, [...]
December 19, 2018
Existing investors contribute an additional $30 million to accelerate tools that will revolutionize genomic research BOULDER, Colo. -- Inscripta™, a leading gene-editing technology company, today announced that MAD7, its proprietary CRISPR enzyme, has achieved wide adoption by academic, commercial, and government researchers in its first year of availability. MAD7 was recently recognized by the Scientistmagazine as one of [...]

