Goal set to exceed $140 million of NGS-related sales in 2018, up from over $115 million in 2017 New Enterprise Genomics Services to offer gene panel customization capabilities to customers GeneReader NGS System plans include enhanced chemistry, more powerful gene panels    Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, January 8, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt [...]

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Effective 1 January 2018, Semilab has acquired the assets of Lehighton Electronics, Inc. (LEI), a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of semiconductor metrology equipment. Twelve previous LEI employees have also joined Semilab USA. Under the Asset Purchase Agreement, Semilab has acquired all rights relating to LEI’s technology. Semilab will endeavor to maintain supply of spare parts and to [...]

Strategic initiative creates integrated platform dedicated to next generation precision medicine Bengaluru, India Healthcare Global Enterprises, Ltd. (HCG:NSE) today announced execution of definitive agreements for the business combination of its Triesta Sciences business unit (“Triesta”) with Strand Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. (“Strand”). Strand, established in 2000 as a spin-off from the Indian Institute of Science, [...]

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- Spectratech Inc., a Japan-based research and development organization, has created a series of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) devices that tout increased connectivity and monitoring capabilities. Their innovative new OEG-APD series instruments have been developed for encephalography to measure chemical changes in the brain such as hemoglobin levels and apparent arterial oxygen saturation in [...]

SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Protein Metrics Inc., a premier provider of mass spectrometry software for protein characterization, announces a fourth consecutive year of record revenue and bookings.  Sales of products more than doubled from 2016.  Growth was evenly distributed between renewals of licenses to existing customers, expansion of products and users within existing customer organizations, and [...]

Companies Target Review Aimed at Molecular Oncology and Hereditary Diseases SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and KingMed Diagnostics (SSE: 603882.SS) today announced an agreement to jointly develop novel oncology and hereditary disease testing applications utilizing Illumina's next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The collaboration is a significant step toward China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) review and approval, and serves as a [...]

Raman capabilities now range from micro- to NanoRaman and provides entry into the SPM market After four years of successful cooperation with AIST-NT, HORIBA Scientific, a global leader in Raman spectroscopy for over 50 years, announced the acquisition of AIST-NT technology. This technology will strengthen HORIBA’s leadership in NanoRaman spectroscopy by combining the most advanced [...]

SEATTLE and TOKYO -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, and Riken Genesis, a subsidiary of Sysmex Corporation (TOKYO, 6869), today announced that they have entered into a partnership to  introduce nCounter-based diagnostic assays in Japan. Under this agreement, NanoString and Riken Genesis will collaborate to register, obtain reimbursement and [...]

Emeryville, Calif. – Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a company dedicated to bringing to market transformational platforms for biopharmaceutical processes, announced today that it has entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) focused on optimizing BLI’s proprietary BeaconTMOptofluidic platform with the goal of helping to accelerate Pfizer’s monoclonal antibody (mAb) [...]