Progeny ResQ 1064nm handheld Raman analyzers selected to support global efforts to counter illicit diversion and trafficking of precursor chemicals used in explosive devices   Wilmington, Massachusetts – Rigaku Analytical Devices, a leader in advanced handheld and portable spectroscopic analyzers, has been chosen to provide its Progeny ResQ system to be used in Project Global Shield, a World Customs Organization (WCO) [...]

Total Financing Raised to Date Is $27M Paris, France - DNA Script announced today it has been awarded $2.7M in non-dilutive financing from the "Concours d'Innovation" program of Bpifrance. DNA Script was awarded this financing, to be received as subsidies and refundable advances, based on the promise of the company's innovative enzymatic DNA synthesis technology and [...]

908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis, today announced a joint innovation partnership with Hangzhou Just Biotherapeutics (HJB). HJB is an integrated design company focused on technologies that will accelerate development of biotherapeutics and reduce manufacturing costs to make medicines more readily available in the global marketplace. HJB partners with [...]

Library of ~850 pre-synthesized gene targets and novel target enrichment technology supports rapid customization across a variety of panel sizes and content IPSWICH, MA — New England Biolabs (NEB®) today announced the launch of the NEBNext Direct Custom Ready Panels. The new panels — coupled with the proprietary NEBNext Direct target enrichment technology — enable [...]

Ensures validity and reliability of data from cell culture-based research MANASSAS, Va. — ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization and the leading supplier of authenticated cells and advanced cell models, today announced the availability of its new PCR-based service to detect mycoplasma contamination in cell cultures. This growing service portfolio is [...]

THOROLD, ON - Diversigen Inc. (Houston, TX) and Norgen Biotek Corp. (Ontario, Canada) today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership through which industry and academic researchers will benefit from comprehensive end-to-end logistical, sequencing, and analytical solutions to meet the growing needs for microbiome analyses. Together, the two companies will provide a combined [...]

Consortium chooses Genedata Selector as bioinformatics solution for production of industrial polyketides. Munich, Germany Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for R&D, today announced that the MyBio consortium has chosen Genedata Selector® as its genome management and characterization platform to support its highly innovative R&D work in antibiotics. MyBio is an interdisciplinary consortia [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Science Exchange, the leading marketplace for outsourced R&D™, announces a collaboration with LI-COR Biosciences to offer a suite of molecular imaging services based on LI-COR’s pioneer work in near-infrared fluorescence as a detection method. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, LI-COR Biosciences is a world leader in innovative imaging systems for proteomics and pre-clinical research. With [...]

Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu) has established a new subsidiary in Egypt and will begin conducting direct sales and services with the aim of expanding its business in the Middle East. In recent years, Egypt has been setting up healthcare infrastructure in line with the country’s economic expansion and population [...]

SOMERSET, N.J. – Catalent Pharma Solutions, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics and consumer health products, and Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, today announced Catalent Biologics will adopt BLI’s Beacon®optofluidic platform to accelerate Catalent Biologics’ cell line development workflow. The Beacon platform is [...]