bioMérieux and Quanterix Sign Strategic Partnership in Ultrasensitive and Multiplex Immunoassays

Marcy l’Etoile (France) and Lexington, MA (U.S.) –— bioMérieux and Quanterix announced today that they have entered into a strategic agreement that gives bioMérieux worldwide exclusive rights to Quanterix’s Simoa technology in clinical laboratories and for industrial applications. Under the agreement, Quanterix will deliver a new instrument and consumables based on its Simoa technology. bioMérieux [...]

University College London Cancer Institute Selects RainDance’s ThunderStorm™ System for High-Throughput Targeted Sequencing

LEXINGTON, Mass. –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that the University College London (UCL) Cancer Institute has adopted its ThunderStorm™ System as a centralized platform for the validation of genomic and epigenomic targets from clinical and non-clinical studies, including follow-ups for genome-wide and epigenome-wide association studies (GWAS and EWAS), as well [...]

Definiens Appoints Dr. Gerald Möller as Chairman of its Supervisory Board

Munich, Germany, – Definiens AG, the leader in image analysis for Digital Pathology, today announced that Dr. Gerald Möller, has joined the company's supervisory board as an independent member and has been appointed chairman. Following the recent financing round, Dr. Möller will guide the expansion of Definiens’ current business and the development and commercialization of [...]

Market Leaders Join Forces in Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy

Zurich, Enschede, Paris, -- Micronit, Fluigent, and Zurich Instruments join forces creating the world's first commercial platform for micro electrical impedance spectroscopy Micronit, Fluigent and Zurich Instruments announce today the world's first system solution for micro electrical impedance spectroscopy. The three companies are combining their state-of-the-art products and services in order to provide a novel [...]

Picarro Expands Executive Team with Subra Sankar as Vice President of Engineering

Santa Clara, Calif. — Picarro Inc. today announced the appointment of Dr. Subra Sankar as vice president of engineering. Dr. Sankar brings to Picarro more than two decades of engineering and R&D expertise from the life sciences, semiconductor, and high technology instrumentation markets. At Picarro, he will oversee hardware and software engineering as the company [...]

Agilent Technologies Appoints Ron Nersesian President and Chief Operating Officer

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its board of directors has appointed Ron Nersesian Agilent president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. Nersesian has been executive vice president and chief operating officer since November 2011. Nersesian, 53, will continue to be responsible for Agilent's Chemical Analysis (CAG), Life Sciences (LSG), Electronic Measurement (EMG), [...]

DNA2.0 Teams Up With Penn’s Gene Therapy Program on Optimizing Gene Expression for HIV-1 Vaccine

DNA2.0, the leading bioengineering solutions provider, today announced a collaboration with the Gene Therapy Program at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, to evaluate the impact of gene optimization on in vivo protein expression. DNA2.0’s patented GeneGPS™ technology will be utilized to optimize in vivo protein expression. The research partnership will primarily support [...]

Inauguration of the HORIBA Europe Research Center on Paris Saclay Campus.

HORIBA open its brand new 7500m² European research centre near Paris, France close to the renown French Ecole Polytechnique Campus. The new facility is hosting the HORIBA Europe holding headquarter and a large part of HORIBA’s local activities: HORIBA Jobin Yvon is a worldwide leader in diffraction grating and scientific instrument design and manufacturing base [...]

Promega Opens New Shanghai Facility

MADISON, Wis.--Promega Corporation celebrates the opening of a new facility for its China operations. The new site for Shanghai Promega Biological Products, Ltd. both replaces an existing molecular biology reagent production site and it provides additional research, development and cGMP manufacturing capabilities for molecular diagnostics products for the Chinese market. Since its purchase in June [...]

Stratedigm announces the launch of the A700 High Throughput Hotel

San Jose, CA – line of Flow Cytometry platforms which include the A600 High Throughput Auto Sampler and Stratedigm’s suite of Flow cytometer analyzers, ranging from the entry level two laser, eight parameter SE520 model to Stratedigm’s flagship the S1000Ex, which can be configured with up to four laser and eighteen parameters. The A700 High [...]

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