Kusatsu/Shiga, Japan - Takara Bio Inc. announces that it has entered into a License Agreement with non-profit/charity organization, Fondazione Telethon ETS (“Telethon”) (https://www.telethon.it/en), Italy, under which Takara Bio grants Telethon a commercial license to use RetroNectin®. Under this agreement, Takara Bio provides Telethon with reliable supplies of RetroNectin®.The technologies licensed to Telethon are based on [...]

Today, LGC announced the appointment of David P. King as Non-Executive Chairman of its Board of Directors. Euan O’Sullivan, President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LGC said: "We are delighted to welcome David to LGC’s Board of Directors, given his extensive healthcare experience within the diagnostics, pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, key customer focus areas [...]

AI-driven literature extraction for thousands of rare disease genes fortifies and extends QIAGEN’s proprietary, human-certified content, providing complete bibliographic coverage of the clinical exome Enhanced AI-trained phenotype driven ranking of pathogenic variants improves accuracy and efficiency of prioritizing candidate variants New features reduce time needed for prioritization, assessment and interpretation of clinically relevant variants and [...]

New Kit expands suite of NGS Library Prep solutions on the BioXp® System Enabling Speed and Efficiency for Whole genome sequencing (WGS) applications with the Automated Molecular Biology Workstation SAN DIEGO -- Telesis Bio Inc. (NASDAQ: TBIO), a leader in automated multi-omic and synthetic biology solutions, today announced the commercial release of its BioXp® NGS [...]

World’s largest biomedical research resource now features more than 28 PB of data to help accelerate scientific discovery and improve human health MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--DNAnexus, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based genomic and biomedical data access and companion analysis software, today announced that the DNAnexus-enabled UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform (UKB-RAP) community has grown to more than [...]

Investments set foundation for global platform of laboratory-automation technologies serving environmental, agricultural and food-and-beverage applications BOSTON--Battery Ventures, a global, technology-focused investment firm, today announced the creation of a new laboratory-automation platform following recent acquisitions of three complementary companies: Skalar Analytical, PromoChrom Technologies and LCTech. Skalar Analytical, based in Breda, the Netherlands, manufactures a range of [...]

Following in-house and third-party validation testing, BioFlyte adds aerosolized fentanyl to its classification library and becomes only market solution proven to simultaneously sample for both chemical and biological threat agents ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — BioFlyte, a bioaerosol surveillance firm with a disruptive new class of fieldable biological threat collection, detection, and identification solutions, today announced that it [...]

SPARTA technology to accelerate the development, manufacture and quality control of nanoparticles used for gene therapies, vaccines, and cancer drugs Sartorius enters into minority shareholding GÖTTINGEN, Germany -- The life science group Sartorius and UK-based startup SPARTA Biodiscovery have agreed to partner on SPARTA’s analysis platform, which helps speed up the development, manufacture, and quality control of nanoparticles for [...]

Superior thermal performance and enhanced usability for PCR applications, such as sequencing, cloning, and genotyping.   HERCULES, Calif. — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of its PTC Tempo 48/48 and PTC Tempo 384 Thermal Cyclers, designed to support PCR [...]

Empowering Researchers with Advanced End-to-End Analysis Tools for Single-Cell and Genetic Variation Studies. We’re thrilled to announce the much-anticipated arrival of OmicsBox 3.1, a release that brings significant improvements to single-cell data analysis with UMI-based technology support and introduces a functional enrichment tool for genetic variation analysis. It also enhances OmicsBox’s long-read transcriptome analysis options, [...]