908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical analysis, today announced it has closed $11.6 Million in Series C funding bringing its funding total to $27.6 Million. Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), the corporate venturing subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s National Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, led the round. Prior investors ARCH Venture Partners, Razor’s [...]

TUCSON, Ariz.-- HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc., a provider of instruments and reagents for molecular profiling applications, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 3,570,000 shares of its common stock at an initial public offering price of $14.00 per share. All of the shares of common stock are being offered by HTG. The [...]

BOULDER, Colo.-- Sage Analytics (www.sageanalytics.com), the developers of a new generation of portable laboratory quality cannabis potency measurement systems, announced today that they will introduce their newest product, the Luminary™ Beacon, at the Marijuana Business Conference and Expo, held in Chicago, May 19-21, 2015. Unlike any other product on the market, the Beacon provides instant, [...]

NEW YORK CITY -- IBM Watson Health (NYSE: IBfM) today announced that it is collaborating with more than a dozen leading cancer institutes to accelerate the ability of clinicians to identify and personalize treatment options for their patients. The institutes will apply Watson's advanced cognitive capabilities to reduce from weeks to minutes the ability to [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a mobile version of its OpenLAB Electronic Laboratory Notebook lab productivity software. OpenLAB ELN now includes desktop, mobile and cloud capabilities. The new version of OpenLAB ELN gives scientists access to laboratory data—anytime, anywhere—through the convenience of their mobile devices. The intuitive mobile user interface [...]

NEW YORK -- L'Oreal USA, the largest subsidiary of the world's leading beauty company, has announced a partnership with 3-D bioprinting company Organovo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ONVO) ("Organovo"). Developed between L'Oreal's U.S.-based global Technology Incubator and Organovo, the collaboration will leverage Organovo's proprietary NovoGen Bioprinting Platform and L'Oreal's expertise in skin engineering to develop [...]

MADISON, WISCONSIN -- Promega Corporation announces the launch of NanoBRET™ Protein Interaction Assays, which use a new Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) technology that enables scientists to quantitatively measure protein:protein interactions in live cells. Traditional methods for studying interactions between proteins are commonly performed in vitro using only protein fragments and do not provide data [...]

RADNOR, Pa.-- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, global, independent provider of products, services and solutions to laboratory and production facilities, announced today that it has acquired Hichrom Limited, a leading manufacturer and distributor of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) columns and consumables. This acquisition builds upon VWR's existing chromatography systems, columns and consumables portfolio, expanding [...]

Middleton, Wis.-– Lucigen Corporation announced today that it has signed an exclusive distributorship agreement with Sigma-Aldrich Corporation’s (NASDAQ: SIAL) India subsidiary, Sigma-Aldrich Chemicals Private Ltd., to expand commercialization of life science reagents in India. The synergy between the two companies will provide researchers in India an enhanced customer experience, strong technical support, and easy access [...]

Woolpit, United Kingdom -- Deben, leading providers of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, report on the work of Microscopy & Histology Core Facility at the University of Aberdeen. The Microscopy and Histology Facility provide access to assorted technologies to researchers at the University of Aberdeen. One core technique [...]