LGC Group strengthens its reference material portfolio and North American reach with the acquisition of the ChromaDex Reference Standards business

The acquisition further enhances LGC’s ability to support pharmaceutical, food, and testing laboratories with trusted reference materials that underpin safety, quality, and regulatory confidence.  London, UK -- LGC Group, a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and analytical solutions, today announced the acquisition of the ChromaDex Reference Standards portfolio from Niagen Bioscience (NASDAQ: NAGE). The acquisition expands [...]

Exum Instruments Launches Next Generation Massbox, Redefining Solid Sample Chemistry

New platform delivers faster operations, enhanced performance, and greater versatility for materials scientists, geoscientists, metallurgists, and battery developers DENVER, CO – Exum Instruments Inc. today announced the launch of next generation Massbox®, a significant advancement of its proprietary Laser Ablation Laser Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (LALI-TOF-MS) platform. Developed to meet the growing demands [...]

Addgene Appoints Greg Crescenzi as Vice President of Global Commercial Strategy and Partnerships

WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Addgene, an organization committed to accelerating discovery and innovation by providing a vast catalog of expertly curated and quality-controlled research tools developed by researchers, today announced the appointment of Greg Crescenzi as Vice President of Global Commercial Strategy and Partnerships. With his leadership in commercializing industry-first products and technologies, Crescenzi will drive [...]

SPT Labtech to collaborate with Illumina to develop automated platform supporting genomics in decentralized healthcare settings

SPT Labtech to develop an automated sample preparation platform for Illumina to further optimize the efficiency and benefits of genomic workflows in decentralized healthcare settings Builds on success of existing partnership including development of automated library preparation methods on SPT Labtech’s firefly? platform The novel platform will enable decentralized labs to access the same level of [...]

Epigenica AB Launches EpiFinder™ cNUC: The First Platform to Simultaneously Profile Multiple Histone Marks and DNA Methylation Directly from Circulating Nucleosomes in Plasma and Serum

SOLNA, Sweden -- Epigenica today announces the launch of EpiFinder™ cNUC, a truly unique product for liquid biopsies that significantly expands the capabilities of epigenomic research by delivering deep insights directly from circulating nucleosomes. As the first product capable of simultaneously profiling up to 5 histone post‑translational modifications together with DNA methylation across multiple samples, [...]

Bruker Accelerates the Future of Diagnostic and Prognostic Spatial Proteomics with the Launch of CellScape XR

The new platform delivers unmatched quantitation, robustness, and throughput to support clinical translation of spatial proteomics assays ORLANDO, Fla. -- Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) announced the launch of CellScape™ XR, a next-generation spatial proteomics platform designed to advance the development of diagnostic and prognostic assays by delivering unprecedented quantitative performance, robustness, and flexibility. CellScape XR addresses [...]

Ultima Genomics and Hamilton Partner to Automate Sample Preparation and Amplification Workflows for the Ultima Family of Sequencing Systems to Enable Improved Lab Operations and Drive Sequencing at Scale

FREMONT, Calif. and RENO, Nev. -- Ultima Genomics, a developer of ultra-high-throughput sequencing systems, together with Hamilton (Hamilton Company and Hamilton Bonaduz AG), a global leader in precision laboratory automation, today announced a partnership to automate Ultima's latest sample preparation and amplification technology across Hamilton's Microlab® STAR™ liquid handling platform. The collaboration enables scalable, efficient next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflows [...]

Change of management at abberior instruments

abberior instruments GmbH CEO Dr. Thorsten Staudt is handing over his position to Meiko Fiedler. “I am convinced that Meiko Fiedler will continue along the path laid out by Thorsten Staudt and lead the company safely and with foresight through the phase ahead, despite the current uncertainties on the global market,” emphasizes Nobel laureate Prof. [...]

ONI Launches LNP PREP on Aplo Flow, Delivering Sample-to-Answer Automation for LNP Characterization

Advanced fluidic automation and super-resolution microscopy come together to deliver scalable, quantitative single-particle LNP analysis for biopharma development and manufacturing. SAN DIEGO, CA and OXFORD, UK -- Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI), a global leader in integrated super-resolution microscopy systems, today launches LNP PREP workflow on Aplo Flow, delivering a fully automated, sample-to-answer workflow for quantitative LNP characterization at single-particle resolution. Lipid nanoparticles [...]

DataJoint Launches Agentic AI Control Layer for Scientific Workflows, Enabling Defensible and Reproducible AI in Regulated R&D

Company to Showcase at PMWC 2026 and Lab of the Future USA Congress HOUSTON -- DataJoint today announced the launch of DataJoint Agentic AI, a governed execution layer for scientific workflows that enables semi-autonomous AI operation on rigorously structured, provenance-rich data. As pharmaceutical and academic institutions accelerate investment in generative and agentic AI to further [...]

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