SomaLogic closes $200M financing round
January 3, 2018
Nan Fung Life Sciences and Madryn Asset Management join iCarbonX in investing to accelerate SomaLogic’s unique precision health insights delivery business Boulder, CO – SomaLogic announced today that it has capped its $200 million funding round, anchored by iCarbonX with substantial investments from Nan Fung Life Sciences and Madryn Asset Management. The successful round will accelerate SomaLogic’s [...]
Highest Stability Recombinant Wnt3a for Organoid Culture
January 2, 2018
AMSBIO has introduced recombinant Wnt3a with a new Wnt stabilizer that significantly extends the activity of this protein in serum-free medium from a half-life of just 2 hours to around 30 hours. Wnt-3a is a protein that is encoded by the Wnt3a gene. The Wnt gene family consists of structurally related genes that encode secreted [...]
January 2, 2018
Rebranding efforts will provide customers with more and enhanced product offerings under a unified marketing message and align the way Lifecycle operates internally around its three major market divisions; Biopharmaceuticals, Industrial, and Regenerative Medicine FORT WORTH, Texas Lifecycle Biotechnologies, a leading supplier to the life science industry and parent company to Boval BioSolutions, Chata Biosystems [...]
DNAnexus Announces $58 Million Investment to Accelerate Expansion
January 2, 2018
Investment led by Foresite Capital with strategic investment by Microsoft will support expansion in translational informatics, clinical trials, and broadened use of biomedical data MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--DNAnexus, Inc., the global leader in biomedical informatics and data management, today announced closing a $58 million financing led by new investor Foresite Capital with strategic investment from Microsoft [...]
BIO-TECHNE ACQUIRES ATLANTA BIOLOGICALS INC.
January 2, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) announced today that it has acquired all of the stock of Atlanta Biologicals, Inc. and its affiliated company, Scientific Ventures, Inc.. The transaction is financed through available cash on hand. Charles R. Kummeth, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bio-Techne, commented, "Atlanta Biologicals is a great fit with the Bio-Techne [...]
January 2, 2018
Cambridge, UK: Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, is delighted to announce its GeneSys software has been upgraded to include QuickQuant, a new feature for rapid band quantification analysis on blots or gels. This software, available to download free of charge to existing users of specified Syngene imaging systems, saves scientists time by [...]
NRGENE STRENGTHENS COOPERATION WITH CHINESE ACADEMIC LEADERS
January 2, 2018
Collaboration results in papers recently published in Nature, Nature Plants & Nature Communications Ness Ziona, Israel – NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic assembly and analysis, has partnered with leading researchers to make a significant impact on global agricultural research. NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICTM delivered reference-level genomes. The quality and completeness of the delivered genomes simplified downstream analysis and [...]
Bruker Announces Merger of Japan Subsidiaries
December 31, 2017
YOKOHAMA, Japan - Bruker Corporation announces the merger of its subsidiaries in Japan as of January 1st. Bruker Daltonics K.K., Bruker Optics K.K., and Bruker AXS K.K. have merged with Bruker BioSpin K.K., and the surviving company has been renamed to Bruker Japan K.K. In addition to the consolidation of legal entities, Bruker has streamlined its [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Completes Acquisition of Phenom-World
December 29, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Phenom-World, a leader in desktop scanning electron microscopy (SEM) solutions. Thermo Fisher will integrate the business into Thermo Fisher's Analytical Instruments segment. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Phenom-World delivers best-in-class desktop SEMs, and imaging and [...]
December 28, 2017
ACEA Biosciences makes available an exhaustive library of xCELLigence papers spanning 15 years and applications ranging from immune cell killing and cell invasion/migration to viral cytopathic effect and cardiotoxicity screening SAN DIEGO In 2002 ACEA Biosciences pioneered real-time cellular impedance as a tool for dynamically tracking cell number, cell size, cell-substrate attachment strength, and cell [...]

