December 9, 2015
LONDON & SAN DIEGO -- Desktop Genetics Ltd ("DTG" or "the Company"), a software company revolutionizing the way biologists use CRISPR gene editing technology, announced today that it has received investment funding fromIllumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The investment will be used to fund the continued development and [...]
Agilent Technologies Presents Thought Leader Award to Human Microbiome Expert Jeffrey Gordon
December 9, 2015
SANTA CLARA – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Dr. Jeffrey Gordon has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of his pioneering research into the mutually beneficial relationship between the human body and the tens of trillions of microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract. Dr. Gordon directs the Center for Genome [...]
SAP Unveils New Solutions to Advance Personalized Medicine
December 8, 2015
FRANKFURT and NEW YORK — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced SAP Foundation for Health and the SAP Medical Research Insights solution. Built on the SAP HANA platform, the new solutions reveal the value of patient data, from biomedical data to electronic medical records to clinical trials. They facilitate data integration and provide real-time analysis and [...]
Protea Announces Biopharm Industry Collaboration
December 8, 2015
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. (OTCQB:PRGB) (“Protea”) announced today it is collaborating with Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:A) (“Agilent”), to address customer challenges within existing Biopharma bioanalytical workflows in order to meet the emerging needs of the growing biopharmaceutical industry. Under Terms of the Agreement, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Protea, using Agilent [...]
December 8, 2015
LGC, the international life sciences company creating measurement and testing solutions for companies across the world, is to be sold by Bridgepoint for an undisclosed sum to KKR. Owned by Bridgepoint since 2010, LGC operates globally in 22 countries and focuses on three distinct areas: the manufacture and distribution of reference materials, proprietary genomic products [...]
Certara Launches Version 15 of its Simcyp Population-based Simulator
December 8, 2015
PRINCETON, NJ –– Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced the release of version 15 of its Simcyp® Population-based Simulator. The Simcyp Simulator is the pharmaceutical industry’s most sophisticated physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling and simulation platform for determining first-in-human dose selection, predicting drug-drug interactions (DDIs), understanding drug disposition in special populations, including [...]
December 8, 2015
Wilmington, DE – The Pistoia Alliance HELM project has made two major announcements that help cement the reputation of HELM as the de-facto standard for describing and working with complex macromolecular structures. Firstly, HELM users can now take advantage of free MarvinBeans 5.0 licenses for the HELM toolkit. Secondly, RDKit is now HELM-enabled, making it [...]
December 8, 2015
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced regulatory clearance to finalize acquisition of Kapa Biosystems, Inc. (Kapa), a privately-held company headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, US. Kapa Biosystems is a provider of genomic tools in the life sciences sector that employs proprietary technologies to optimize enzymes for next-generation sequencing (NGS), as well as [...]
IDT Delivers a Complete Solution for Probe-based qPCR Assays
December 8, 2015
CORALVILLE, IA – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has introduced its latest addition to an expanding genomic applications portfolio: PrimeTime® Gene Expression Master Mix, an optimized enzyme mix for probe-based qPCR. IDT continues to providehigher value qPCR products by delivering superior assay performance at a lower price per reaction, while empowering customers with access to assay [...]
Revolutionary Didymium Filter Made From Didymium Glass Released by FireflySci
December 8, 2015
Brooklyn NY - FireflySci, Inc. is proving to be an extremely valuable company in the spectrophotometer calibration field. They have greatly helped laboratories save thousands of dollars with their calibration standards that never require recalibration. Now they have come up with another killer innovation that helps labs be safer and more efficient. This new product [...]

