MTS SYSTEMS PURCHASES INSTRUMENT AND CALIBRATION SWEDEN AB

Eden Prairie, Minn. –– MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today announced that it has acquired Instrument and Calibration Sweden AB (ICS), a supplier of testing equipment and calibration services located in Sweden. MTS purchased ICS for approximately $0.7 million, representing an EBITDA multiple of [...]

LGC and the AOCC expand co-operation to accelerate Marker-Assisted Selection

LGC and the African Orphan Crop Consortium (AOCC) expand their partnership, using LGC’s proprietary genomic technologies to accelerate crop breeding for members of the AOCC. The AOCC is an international effort to improve the nutrition, productivity and climatic adaptability of Africa’s most important food crops, helping to decrease the malnutrition and stunting rife among the [...]

ACD/Labs and IDBS Partnership Delivers Live Analytical Data to ELN Interface

Toronto, Canada & London, United Kingdom — ACD/Labs, a Toronto-based chemistry software company, and IDBS, a leading global provider of advanced software for R&D organizations, today announced a new partnership to deliver an enhanced analytical sciences environment for IDBS Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) users in the chemistry and biology space. The collaborative effort has begun [...]

SomaLogic announces commercial availability of individual SOMAmer reagents

SomaLogic, Inc., announced today that it is making its proprietary SOMAmer® (Slow Off-rate Modified Aptamers) reagents commercially available as individual molecules to the life science and biopharma scientific communities for their specific protein-affinity research needs. The initial library available today includes 244 different SOMAmer reagents (and protein targets), and that number is expected to grow [...]

SeraCare Life Sciences’ Precision Medicine Unit Launches New Product to Ensure Accuracy of NGS Assays

MILFORD, Mass.-- SeraCare Life Sciences, a leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, today announced that the company's new precision medicine business unit has launched its first product, theSeraseq™ Solid Tumor Mutation Mix—I (AF20); a biosynthetic reference material designed to evaluate the performance of next generation sequencing (NGS)-based tumor profiling assays. This product contains [...]

InSphero AG Secures CHF 20 Million Series C Financing

Schlieren, Switzerland -- InSphero AG, the world’s leading developer of easy-to-use solutions for organotypic 3D cell culture models and body-on-a-chip systems, has secured CHF 20 million in financing from the family investment office of a globally active entrepreneur represented through HP WILD HOLDING AG based in Zug, Switzerland. InSphero is using the Series C financing [...]

MyDx Announces the Release of Its First Chemical Analyzer for Consumers

SAN DIEGO, CA -- MyDx, Inc. (OTCQB: MYDX), creator of MyDx™ (My Diagnostic), the first battery operated, handheld, chemical analyzer for consumers, has begun the nationwide roll-out of its initial product containing the CannaDx™ sensor and App, designed to help consumers test and find a Cannabis strain that works for them. The MyDx Analyzer is [...]

Ceres Licenses DNA Browser Software to Bayer CropScience

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. –– Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE), an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, today announced that the company has licensed its Persephone genome visualization application to Bayer CropScience. The multi-year software license and collaboration agreement provides a non-exclusive license to Bayer as well as professional services including support, customizations and maintenance. Bayer is the [...]

TTE Laboratories Announces the World’s First “Forever” Pipette, the EON S, the Last Pipette You’ll Ever Buy

Hopkinton, Massachusetts -- TTE Laboratories today announces the immediate availability of its EON S™ “Forever” Pipette on its ecommerce site, https://www.Pipettes.com. The EON S is the last pipette you’ll ever buy because, for as long as you own and calibrate it with TTE every 6 months (as most labs do), you will enjoy unlimited free [...]

Reliable and Effective Parallel Stirrer / Blenders

The DrySyn Vortex family from Asynt has been expanded to now comprise three systems, all designed to stir or blend up to three reactions at one time, whilst heating or cooling. Stirring tasks are most often performed in laboratories using magnetic hotplate stirrers which couple to PTFE magnetic stirring bars in the reaction vessel. Disadvantages [...]

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