BIO-TECHNE CORPORATION COMPLETED ITS ACQUISITION OF EXOSOME DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
August 1, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Exosome Diagnostics, Inc. The transaction consideration includes an upfront payment of $250 million plus an additional $325 million that can be maximally earned through calendar year 2022 upon reaching certain performance milestones. With this acquisition, Minneapolis-based Bio-Techne now has a world-wide workforce [...]
August 1, 2018
FREDERICK, MD. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RURO, Inc., a company known for its industry-leading laboratory software portfolio, announces the release of Limfinity® version 7.1. Limfinity® is the software framework that all of RURO’s products are built from, and each improvement made to Limfinity® itself creates new possibilities for both current users and the future of RURO’s [...]
William Franco Joins VUV Analytics as Vice President of Engineering
August 1, 2018
Austin, TX – VUV Analytics, Inc., the leader in vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) absorption spectroscopy, has announced the addition of William Franco as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Franco has an established track record of leading engineering teams at highly successful startups and larger companies, including LifeSize, TippingPoint, National Instruments, and Cisco. Most recently, he was [...]
BD Appoints Simon Campion to Interventional Segment President
August 1, 2018
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.-- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today appointed Simon Campion as executive vice president of BD and president, BD Interventional segment, effective Sept. 4. Campion, 47, will report to Tom Polen, president of BD, and will be responsible for the global strategic, operational and commercial performance of the [...]
Micromeritics Instrument Corp. Acquires Process Integral Development S.L.
August 1, 2018
This is the Company’s Second Acquisition in Less Than 45 Days Norcross, GA – Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of premium products for advanced material characterization, today announced the acquisition of Process Integral Development S.L. (PID Tech & Eng). PID Eng & Tech provides modular laboratory microreactor systems for the measurement of catalytic [...]
August 1, 2018
Funding will support development of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa targeted therapeutic, to tackle the genetic cause of antibiotic resistance CAMBRIDGE, UK – Phico Therapeutics Ltd (‘Phico’), a biotechnology company developing a novel platform technology as the basis of a new generation of antibiotics to overcome antibacterial resistance, today announced that it had been awarded significant funding to support [...]
Advion Headquarters Relocate and Expand
August 1, 2018
ITHACA, N.Y. — Advion, Inc., a leading systems and consumables provider for the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce the new location of the company headquarters within the Cornell Business and Technology Park at 61 Brown Rd., Suite 100, Ithaca, NY 14850. Sparked by growth in demand and the need for additional labs, R&D and manufacturing [...]
August 1, 2018
Day-One Lab Readiness speeds commercialization and reimbursement in personalized medicine Hilden, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a collaboration with SRL, Inc., the largest clinical testing laboratory company in Japan, to prepare for introduction of new companion diagnostics simultaneous with new drug approvals. The non-exclusive master collaboration agreement for clinical laboratory [...]
SCIEX Presents Clinical Solutions for Routine Diagnostics and Innovative Research at AACC
August 1, 2018
New Topaz™ Prep Station and Vitamin D 200A Assay Kit streamline workflows to simplify sample prep, improving ROI SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, advanced the accessibility of mass spectrometry in the clinical setting with new product introductions at AACC 2018. These products add to the company’s existing industry leading solutions and [...]
Covaris and Bioz Have Partnered to Bring Data and Transparency to the Customer Experience
August 1, 2018
Covaris and Bioz Have Partnered to Bring Data and Transparency to the Customer Experience LOS ALTOS, CA - Bioz, Inc., a Silicon Valley AI data company, is proud to announce a new partnership with Covaris, Inc., the gold standard of DNA fragmentation in Next Generation Sequencing. By combining the latest advances in Natural Language Processing [...]

