Merck is expanding production capacity for highly-purified reagents at its site in Nantong, China, a major transportation hub in the Yangtze River Delta region. Adds production capacity to further provide customers with highly purified reagents for quality control and testing Major investment at company’s Nantong site reflects Merck’s China strategy Extends partnership with Nantong Economic [...]

Broadens Life Sciences Reach MINNEAPOLIS — Donaldson Company, Inc. (NYSE: DCI), a leading worldwide provider of innovative filtration products and solutions, today announced the acquisition of Univercells Technologies, a global producer of innovative biomanufacturing solutions for cell and gene therapy research, development and commercial manufacturing. Univercells Technologies’ product offering includes the unique scale-X™ single-use structured [...]

Grenova, Inc., a Virginia-based designer, manufacturer, and distributor of instruments and associated consumables for the life sciences industry, today announced the appointment of Katherine Marrs as Chief Commercial Officer. Marrs joins the award-winning team at Grenova during a period of rapid growth and expansion as the lab industry seeks new ways to become sustainable while [...]

In June, Shimadzu Corporation began a “Revolutionary Packaging Project” to improve the design of packaging for products. This project will revise the packaging materials and specifications used for products handled by the Shimadzu Group, leading to reduced environmental load and logistics costs. At the end of March, Shimadzu Logistics Service Corporation (hereinafter SLS), which handles [...]

Cleveland, Ohio -- AgriPlex Genomics has released a new Commercial Tomato Panel, an extension of their Fresh Market Tomato Panel, designed by a consortium of leading tomato breeders and geneticists. The new panel has 1039 markers that span across all 12 tomato chromosomes and can be utilized for both commercial processing and fresh tomato studies [...]

As CFO, Mike Minyard delights in using numbers and data to tell the story of Exum’s past, present, and future. Trained in both engineering at Rice University and finance at the Wharton School, he has lived and worked in the US, UK, and Africa.  In his spare time, Mike is an award-winning home brewer, mediocre guitar player, [...]

Expanded genomic interpretation team bolsters company’s offerings for clinical diagnostic and pharmaceutical drug development programs Genomenon Inc.®, a leader in Genomic Intelligence, today announced it has acquired Boston Genetics, a genomics interpretation and curation company. By combining Genomenon’s unrivaled AI-powered platform for genomic knowledge and tech-enabled scientific expertise with Boston Genetics’ substantial team of genetic [...]

Up to 46% improvement in soma detection using state of the art AI plus added features for all researchers in new Aivia release Wetzlar, Germany –­ Leica Microsystems, a leader in microscopy and scientific instrumentation, has released version 12 of Aivia, its flagship AI image analysis software. Aivia 12 incorporates the Cellpose deep learning model [...]

Bioscientia Acquires Multiple Revio Sequencing Systems to Revolutionize Rare Disease Research by Sequencing Thousands of Long-Read Human Genomes Annually MENLO PARK, Calif. -- PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced that Bioscientia is using its Revio long-read sequencing systems to expand its genomics research projects and sequence several thousand human genomes per year. Part of Sonic Healthcare [...]

Gibco™ OncoPro™ Tumoroid Culture Medium Kit broadens access to clinically relevant patient-derived tumor models CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of the Gibco™ OncoPro™ Tumoroid Culture Medium Kit*, the first commercially available culture medium specifically developed for the expansion of patient-derived tumoroids, or cancer organoids, [...]