London – Lifebit, the startup building a fully-automated system that generates and processes genomics data in real time at scale, today announces that it has closed a $3m (£2.25m) Seed funding round led by Pentech and Connect Ventures, with participation from Beacon Capital and Tiny VC (AngelList). The company is simultaneously announcing the launch of [...]

LIG Nanowise, which specialises in developing super-resolution microscope technology and applying revolutionary and patented microsphere lens technologies to industry and academia, has announced the completion of its seed funding round, raising £2.6million. LIG says it has developed an accessible super-resolution imaging technique for advanced materials, semiconductors, metal alloys, and more. It claims that its specialist [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that UK Border Force is now using Resolve, the company’s handheld Raman system, to detect bulk chemicals—whether benign, hazardous, or illegal—through opaque packages and containers. This system is the latest addition to a suite of advanced technologies deployed to detect illegal shipments. The Resolve system’s unique [...]

Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed-water analysis instrumentation and software, has released an updated and improved version of its SpectrOil M Elemental Analyzer. This military version of the renowned SpectrOil family of oil and fuel analysis spectrometers is the only oil elemental analyzer approved by the US Department of Defense [...]

Vienna, Austria – AMETEK Grabner Instruments and Agilent Technologies Inc. announce an OEM agreement for an innovative mobile testing solution for in-the-field analysis of lubricating oils and greases. Grabner Instruments, based in Austria, is well known for developing and manufacturing automatic petroleum testing equipment. In this partnership, Grabner will focus on lube and grease analysis, an [...]

Mountain View, CA—Takara Bio USA, Inc., (TBUSA, formerly Clontech Laboratories, Inc.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., is proud to announce that patent JP6336080B—covering the Smart-seq2 method, developed by Rickard Sandberg and exclusively licensed to TBUSA by the Ludwig Institute—has been awarded by the Japan Patent Office. Additional patents regarding the Smart-seq2 technology [...]

MENLO PARK, Calif.--Quantapore Inc. announced the completion of a $15.55 million sale of Series 3 Preferred Stock led by Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC). Tsingyuan Ventures and Sangel Venture Capital were major investors in the round and were joined by Baidu Ventures and Cloudstone VC. Mr. Feng Deng of NLVC has joined Quantapore’s Board of [...]

Company initiates commercial execution of groundbreaking technology accelerating cell therapy and vascular research with magnetic particle imaging. ALAMEDA, California, USA – Magnetic Insight Inc announced today that the company has secured an oversubscribed seed round of $3M. The equity round is led by Sand Hill Angels with contributions from other prominent angel investors and funds [...]

Easy to use: The large touchscreen and intuitive onboard software simplify programming, operation and data visualization. Runs most common assays: Nucleic acid and protein quantification in microplates or 2 µL samples with the Take3 Plate, ELISA, cell viability, gene expression and more. Excellent performance: Synergy LX offers uncompromised performance for UV-Vis absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence assays. Budget-friendly: At nearly half the price of [...]

 Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), has become a validated software provider for METRC (Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance) in the states of California, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon with additional states in the planning phase. With this validation, ATL’s LIMS solutions, Sample Master® and TITAN®, are able to interface with METRC. METRC [...]