MINNEAPOLIS  -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced that Dr. Jordan Laser has received the AMP Meritorious Service Award from the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP). Dr. Laser is receiving this honor to recognize his dedication and effort behind the scenes to position AMP as the premier molecular diagnostics professional association around the world. Dr. [...]

Rigaku Analytical Devices announces the launch of the handheld CQL Narc-ID 1064 nm Raman analyzer for the presumptive identification of narcotics, precursor chemicals, and cutting agents—even in non-visible amounts with the optional QuickDetect feature. Designed for counter-narcotics agencies, law enforcement, crime laboratories, prison facilities, customs agencies, or public safety efforts, the CQL Narc-ID can have a direct [...]

Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland Nagi Bioscience, a Swiss life sciences company developing next-generation laboratory equipment to unlock the full potential of alternatives to animal testing, is thrilled to announce the successful closure of its Series A funding round. The company has secured an oversubscribed 12.4M CHF investment from top-tier venture capital firms across Europe, co-led by Swisscanto and imec.xpand, together [...]

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 [...]