Denville, NJ -- Diagenode, Inc., a leading global provider of complete solutions for epigenetics research, today announced the launch of a number of new reagent solutions to study nucleosomes and histones, the structural and functional units of chromatin. The new tools which include recombinant histones and nucleosomes, native nucleosomes, and a chromatin assembly kit, enable [...]

Eden Prairie, Minn. –– MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, has provided Penn State University with a comprehensive suite of advanced materials testing equipment and software for its state-of-the-art Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) laboratory. The purchase of the five MTS Criterion® Electromechanical [...]

BERKELEY, CA – Caribou Biosciences and DuPont jointly announce today that they have formed a strategic alliance designed to advance the two companies’ respective CRISPR-derived genome editing technology platforms. This multi-faceted agreement includes the cross-licensing of key intellectual property, a research collaboration, and financial investments by DuPont in Caribou, a developer of CRISPR-Cas technologies. Under [...]

SAN DIEGO -- BioNano Genomics, the leader in physical genome mapping, today announced that the Company has entered into a research collaboration agreement with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The research is intended to study the role of structural variations in human genetic pediatric disorders using BioNano Genomics' revolutionary genome mapping platform, the [...]

LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced that its next generation sequencing (“NGS”) analysis and interpretation tools, VarElect(https://varelect.genecards.org), the NGS phenotyper, and GeneAnalytics™ (https://geneanalytics.genecards.org/), a novel gene set analysis tool, has been licensed by SciLifeLab (www.scilifelab.se). SciLifeLab is a Sweden-based leading provider of molecular biosciences services to leading biomedical research institutions and companies. [...]

FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (WGBS) today announced preliminary, unaudited revenue for the third quarter of 2015. The Company expects total revenue for the third quarter of 2015 to be in the range of $1.9 million to $2.1 million, which would represent an increase of 52-68% when compared to the $1.3 million reported for [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Silicon Biosystems, Inc.today announced that it was awarded a contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) to provide the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) with a DEPArray system for rare, single-cell isolation. The DEPArray system combines image-based cell selection withdielectrophoresis-based cell movement for identification and sorting of [...]

LEIDEN - BIOKÉ, a Cell Signaling Technology Europe (CST Europe) company, and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or "the Company”), the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, announced that they have signed an exclusive agreement allowing BIOKE to distribute Horizon’s [...]

MANASSAS, Va.-- ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, announces today that it has been selected by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) to provide vital cell lines to academic, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology organizations committed to speed a cure for Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease is a chronic, degenerative neurological [...]

Seattle, and Indianapolis – Cyrus Biotechnology has signed a software licensing agreement with Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (IURTC) at Indiana University (IU) to commercialize the SparksX software package developed at the lab of former IU professor Yaoqi Zhou at the Indianapolis campus. Cyrus offers a highly automated protein structure prediction and design software-as-a-service [...]