RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- A statewide coalition of public and private partner organizations and institutions, led by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech), has received a Phase 2 award totaling nearly $25 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Build Back Better Regional Challenge. The NCBiotech-led consortium is one of only 21 projects chosen from [...]

BioEcho Life Sciences, a Germany-based biotechnology company supplying the fastest and most sustainable nucleic acid extraction technology, announces the opening of its US subsidiary in Boston, MA. Cologne -- The BioEcho subsidiary in the biotechnology hub of Boston is a decisive step in the company’s plan to serve a worldwide growing customer base with best-in-class [...]

Imaging Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Active Vibration Isolation Add to Park’s Nanometrology Business Portfolio. Park Systems Corp. today announced that it has acquired Accurion GmbH, a privately held company that develops and manufactures imaging spectroscopic ellipsometers and active vibration isolations. This acquisition adds to Park’s portfolio of atomic force microscopy and white-light interferometric microscopy. Financial details [...]

The JEOL AccuTOF GC-Alpha installed at Covalent Metrology pushes the limits of mass spectrometry services to deliver enhanced data quality and speed Sunnyvale, CA. Covalent Metrology, a North-American provider of premier analytical services, announced significant enhancements to its mass spectrometry services following the installation of the latest-generation AccuTOF GC-Alpha Gas-Chromatography Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (GC-TOFMS) from JEOL, a [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- (Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it is collaborating with METTLER TOLEDO to address one of the biggest concerns in any laboratory—error-prone sample preparation. This integrated solution allows the automatic and seamless transfer of weighing results and the associated metadata from METTLER TOLEDO LabX™ Balance software to Agilent OpenLab software. [...]

LANSING, Mich. — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has completed the previously announced merger with 3M’s Food Safety business to create an innovative leader in the food safety sector with a comprehensive product range and a strategic focus on the category’s long-term growth opportunities. The transaction was first announced on December 14, [...]

Vienna – Lexogen, a transcriptomics and Next-Generation Sequencing company announced the release of the new RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kit for Yeast today. Total RNA is comprised of large amounts of undesired ribosomal RNA (rRNA), which accounts for up to 95 % of all transcripts in an RNA sample. The new RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kit for Yeast [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of Achrom (the “Company”), a Belgium-based distributor of chromatography consumables, equipment, and accessories. Achrom is Calibre Scientific’s first acquisition in the Benelux region and further enhances Calibre Scientific’s growing Pan-European presence. Founded in 1991, Achrom serves customers in the pharmaceutical, chemistry, environmental, academic, private [...]

Munich, Germany, and Regensburg, Germany – Dynamic Biosensors and 2bind, a Contract Research Organization (CRO), today announce that they have signed a technology-service partnership which will enable both companies to further help their customers to accelerate research. The collaboration will enable 2bind to integrate Dynamic Biosensors’ innovative heliX® system into its service portfolio, giving Dynamic Biosensors another highly experienced [...]

WASHINGTON -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN), today received a favorable decision from the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) presiding over the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) challenge of the GRAIL acquisition. In the decision, the ALJ ruled for Illumina and rejected the FTC's position that the deal would adversely affect competition in a putative market for multi-cancer early detection [...]