Galatea Bio Secures $25M to Develop Global Biobank and Enable Precision Health at Scale for All

Building the world’s largest biobank with data from global populations to accelerate biomarker and drug discovery and development of next-generation diagnostics. Secured $25M in funding from F-Prime, Helios Digital Ventures, Digitalis Ventures, CEI Ventures, AME Cloud, Alexandria, Founders Collective, Stanford President’s Fund, and HBM Genomics. MIAMI -- Galatea Bio, a leader in AI-driven genomic research [...]

BD Names Gregory J. Hayes to Board of Directors

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the appointment of Gregory J. Hayes to its board of directors, effective March 26, 2025. BD appoints Gregory J. Hayes to its board of directors. Hayes, 64, is currently the executive chairman of the board of [...]

Introducing VERLO™: an Image-Guided Cell Sorter

  I&L Biosystems is excited to introduce the VERLO™ Image-Guided Cell Sorter that combines flow cytometry, gentle microfluidic sorting, and imaging to sort cells by morphology and localisation. With two lasers and 12 parameters, it enables bulk and single-cell sorting. The VERLO™ Image-Guided Cell Sorter by NanoCellect utilises patented microfluidic-based sorting, combining laser excitation with sensitive PMT detectors [...]

Jim Gibson to join PacBio as Chief Financial Officer

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced Jim Gibson will join and be appointed as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer, effective as of his start date, which is expected to be March 31, 2025. With over three decades of financial leadership experience at some [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging Collaborate to Further Understanding of Human Cells

New alliance for advanced biological imaging aimed at enhancing some of the world's most innovative structural cell biology capabilities to help scientists answer pressing research questions WALTHAM, Mass. --  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced a Technology Alliance Agreement with the Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging (CZ [...]

Singleron Biotechnologies Launches MobiuSCOPE: A Simple Solution for High-Throughput Full-Length Single Cell RNA Sequencing

COLOGNE, GERMANY - Singleron Biotechnologies today announced the launch of MobiuSCOPE, a single cell RNA sequencing kit that provides full-length transcript analysis using standard short-read sequencing. This solution captures alternative splicing events, gene fusions, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) by providing complete transcript coverage and minimizing the 3' or 5' bias commonly found in conventional approaches. [...]

ERS Genomics and Jumpcode Genomics sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement

License agreement provides Jumpcode Genomics access to CRISPR gene editing technology to enhance next-generation sequencing capabilities DUBLIN and SAN DIEGO -- ERS Genomics Limited ('ERS'), the CRISPR licensing company, and Jumpcode Genomics ('Jumpcode'), a life science tools company improving and reducing the cost of next-generation sequencing technology, today announced a non-exclusive CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement. The agreement grants Jumpcode access [...]

mo:re launches lab platform to set a new standard in animal-free drug development

mo:re introduces a laboratory platform to automate the planning, culture, and analysis of complex 3D cell culture models. The user-friendly platform enables verifiable, standardized results without requiring expertise in specific organ systems. The Hamburg-based life science start-up mo:re announced the launch of their first product at the SLAS 2025 in San Diego, the world’s leading [...]

SPT Labtech and Biortus Launch Joint Laboratory of Structural Biology in China

Cambridge, UK and Wuxi, China - SPT Labtech, a renowned multinational innovator specializing in automated instrumentation and consumables, joined forces with Biortus Biosciences Co., Ltd., a global leader in integrated capabilities spanning from gene to structural analysis, to inaugurate their strategic partnership and unveil the "Joint Laboratory of Structural Biology" at I-Campus. This collaboration marks [...]

Bruker Introduces eWARP, a Pioneering New EBSD Detector for Advanced Materials Characterization in Scanning Electron Microscopes

BERLIN, Germany – Today, Bruker announces the launch of eWARP, a groundbreaking new detector for Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) that marks the advent of a new era in EBSD technology. Featuring a revolutionary Bruker-engineered camera that combines direct electron detection and CMOS technologies, the new eWARP (Wide ARea Pixelated sensor) is the fastest and most signal efficient [...]

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