May 23, 2016
San Francisco, CA - 6SensorLabs announced it has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding led by Foundry Group, with participation from Upfront Ventures, SoftTech VC, SK Ventures, Lemnos Labs, Mitch Kapor and Matt Rogers, founder of Nest. The company also announced that it will operate under its consumer-facing Nima brand to consolidate into a [...]
WuXi Biologics and Sartorius Stedim Biotech Open Joint Laboratory in Shanghai
May 20, 2016
Goettingen, Germany - Sartorius Stedim Biotech, an international leading supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, and WuXi Biologics today announced the opening of their Joint Laboratory in Shanghai, marking an exciting new stage in their long-term cooperation. The Joint Laboratory has been established to enhance China’s position in the global R&D of novel biologics and to [...]
Edico Genome Strengthens Intellectual Property Position for DRAGEN Bio-IT Processor
May 19, 2016
SAN DIEGO - Edico Genome, creator of the world's first bio-IT processor designed to analyze next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, announced a third, foundational patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. U.S. patent number 14/948372, entitled "Bioinformatics Systems, Apparatuses, And Methods Executed On An Integrated Circuit Processing Platform," broadly covers the technology and [...]
May 19, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., — Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis, announced that it has retained the leading trial law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to defend against the February 3, 2016 lawsuit filed by Agilent Technologies. Twist Bioscience was founded by Bill Banyai, Ph.D., Emily [...]
QIAGEN Bioinformatics Continues to Set the Standard With Hereditary Disease Solution
May 19, 2016
BARCELONA, Spain - QIAGEN announced two milestones in its delivery of solutions for clinical analysis and interpretation of hereditary diseases with whole exome and genome data. Widely enabling GATK best practices without technical or bioinformatics skills Beginning this month, pipeline scripts that implement the Broad Institute’s GATK best practices — a widely-used solution for variant [...]
Growth Continues at Anton Paar USA
May 19, 2016
Anton Paar USA, located in Ashland, Virginia announced that construction of a new 30,000 square foot office building is complete. The new structure adds a third office building to the current facilities. Growth is nothing new. In 2011, Anton Paar USA purchased 2.4 acres of land, along with office space adjacent to the previous main [...]
LabArchives Integrates with Box for Seamless Research Collaboration
May 18, 2016
Carlsbad, California, - LabArchives, a leading electronic lab notebook that helps research organizations store, organize and publish their research data announced an integration with Box, a leading enterprise content management platform. With over 57,000 customers, including 59% of the Fortune 500, Box supports HIPAA compliance and serves provider, payor and life sciences companies around the [...]
PeakForce sMIM Mode Provides Enhanced Nanoscale Mapping of Permittivity and Conductivity
May 18, 2016
SANTA BARBARA, California – Bruker’s Nano Surfaces Division announced the release of scanning microwave impedance microscopy (sMIM) capability for its Dimension Icon® atomic force microscope (AFM) platform. The innovative sMIM technique works by reflecting a microwave signal from a nano-probe and sample interface to reveal the electrodynamic properties of the sample surface and sub-surface. The [...]
Agilent Technologies Announces Cash Dividend of 11.5 Cents per Share
May 18, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif., - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced that a quarterly dividend of 11.5 cents per share of common stock will be paid on July 27, 2016, to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on July 5, 2016. The timing and amounts of future dividends are subject to determination [...]
Ups and downs at Endress+Hauser
May 18, 2016
Endress+Hauser issued a solid financial report for 2015. The measurement and automation engineering specialist was nevertheless unsatisfied with how the business developed. In local currencies, the Swiss-based Group experienced hardly any growth in net sales. Currency impacts additionally strained earnings. The Group increased consolidated sales by 6.5 percent to more than 2.1 billion euros. As [...]
