Firm Announces Launch of Blackstone Life Sciences Investment Platform New York – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announced that it has agreed to acquire Clarus, a leading global life sciences investment firm that has raised $2.6 billion since its founding.  Clarus, with offices in the life sciences hubs of Boston and San Francisco, is focused on funding growth-stage [...]

DANBURY, Conn. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IQVIA™ (NYSE:IQV) and Genomics England today announced a collaboration to develop a platform that will connect clinical and de-identified genomics data to accelerate treatment advancements for patients. This alliance will enable faster and more efficient drug research, more robust evidence to support treatment value, and greater access [...]

End-to-end Software Solution for Fully Connected Smart Fab of the Future SYRACUSE, N.Y.--On October 1, 2018 INFICON Inc. (SWX:IFCN), a leading supplier of vacuum instrumentation and process control software to the semiconductor manufacturing industry acquired all assets of Final Phase Systems (FPS) of Austin, Texas, USA. Founded in 2009 by Industrial Engineers from AMD/Spansion’s Fab25, FPS has grown to [...]

Location: Cambridge, UK In vivo study results to be presented at the 2018 SITC Annual Meeting Celyad (Paris:CYAD) (Brussels:CYAD) (NASDAQ:CYAD) (Euronext Brussels and Paris, and NASDAQ: CYAD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of specialized CAR-T cell-based therapies, today announced an exclusive agreement with Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD), for the use [...]

Fujisawa, Japan and Dublin, Ireland – Axcelead Drug Discovery Partners, Inc.(hereinafter referred to as “Axcelead”) and ERS Genomics Limited (hereinafter referred to as “ERS Genomics”) announced today a non-exclusive license agreement to provide Axcelead with worldwide access to ERS Genomics’ CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing intellectual property to enhance their drug discovery service offering. ERS Genomics holds rights [...]

DSP to be Applied to Transplant Research of Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Kidney Transplantation SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that the University of Oxford has been selected as the winning recipient of a grant for a GeoMx™ Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP) [...]

Merck today officially opened a state-of-the-art M Lab™ Collaboration Center in Brazil, serving the Latin America region.  SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL New collaboration center to provide support from pre-clinical through full-scale production in a non-GMP environment Hands-on customer access to Merck’s product portfolio, technical expertise São Paulo, Brazil, October 4, 2018 – Merck, the vibrant science and technology company, [...]

Combining high-performance automated microfluidics with easy-to-use software to streamline CNV detection for translational and clinical research SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with DNA Software, Inc. to provide CopyCount-CNV™ software for use with the Fluidigm Biomark™ HD system. Copy number variation (CNV) plays an important role [...]

New database enables the rapid screening and identification of drugs by Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART®) mass spectrometry. SAUGUS, Mass. -- IonSense, Inc. has announced that in collaboration with Cayman Chemical, Inc. they have built and validated a mass spectral database of 1000 compounds for the rapid screening of drugs of abuse using Direct [...]

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