SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced the appointment of David King as Vice President, Research and Development, Genomics. As a member of the executive leadership team reporting to President and CEO Chris Linthwaite, King will drive R&D strategy and execution for all genomics products and systems across the company. “Fluidigm is a leader in deep, high-parameter [...]

£1.6m investment recognises BioAscent’s unique capabilities   NEWHOUSE, UK: BioAscent Discovery Limited (www.bioascent.com) has secured £1.6m in funding from Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”). The investment will facilitate BioAscent’s growth through its unique offering of integrated drug discovery, and compound management services, as well as the Compound Cloud library of lead-like pharma compounds, from its state-of-the-art facility at BioCity, Scotland. This offering [...]

Queen's has opened a new laboratory in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, equipped with state-of-the-art instruments from leading analytical instrument manufacture company Agilent. Developed to maximise students' practical lab experience for the postgraduate course in Pharmaceutical Analysis, the new lab features 18 Agilent instruments from gas and liquid chromatographs and mass spectrometers to [...]

MINNEAPOLIS and WALTHAM, Mass. -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) announced today that it has reached agreement to acquire Exosome Diagnostics, Inc. for $250 million in cash plus contingent consideration of up to $325 million due upon the achievement of certain future milestones. The transaction is expected to close in July or early August 2018. The transaction will [...]

- Novel High-throughput NMR and MS Solutions for Translational Phenomics Research and Biobanking - NMR quantification of metabolites and lipoprotein subclass analysis now in one measurement SEATTLE -- At Metabolomics 2018 (metabolomics2018.org), Bruker today announced B.I.QUANT-PS™, a metabolite quantification solution on its AVANCE IVDr™ 600 MHz NMR platform, which brings cost-effective nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) screening to high-throughput, [...]

Postnova Analytics report on how researchers from the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) and the University of Ferrara  have used AF2000 Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) system and Model S101 Sedimentation Flow Field Fractionation (SdFFF) systems in some ground-breaking research. In the last 20 [...]

Delivering valuable insights with solution anchored by GeneReader NGS System and utilizing QIAact target enrichment panels and gold-standard QIAGEN bioinformatics solutions Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today introduced seamless next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions for a wide range of hereditary diseases on the GeneReader NGS System, the complete [...]

Expert lab automation advice and budget-friendly S-LAB™ plate handler available on booth 405 Farnborough, UK. Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader in laboratory automation, will be providing extensive automation advice and showcasing its S-LAB™ automated plate handler onbooth 405 at the SLAS Europe conference in Brussels, June 27-29th 2018. Now available to end users, the S-LAB is an easy-to-use, [...]

San Diego, Calif. – NanoCellect Biomedical Inc., a leader in the development and manufacture of innovative tools for cell analysis and sorting, today announced that Chris Neary has joined the company’s management team as CEO.  The appointment is part of NanoCellect’s expansion following its successful introduction of the unique Wolf® Cell Sorter system.  Neary will [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA — Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), a leader in designing and programming biology for function, today announced Reinhard J. Ambros, Ph.D., has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Ambros was the global head of the Novartis Venture Fund from 2005 to 2017 and built one of the largest and most active corporate Biotechnology [...]