Akoya Biosciences to Partner with Acrivon Therapeutics for the Clinical Development of Acrivon’s Proprietary OncoSignature® Test into a Companion Diagnostic

The OncoSignature® test developed based on Acrivon’s AP3 platform is a first-of-its-kind spatial signature assay to identify patients most likely to respond to ACR-368, an advanced Phase 2 targeted oncology agent for solid cancers The OncoSignature® test will run on Akoya’s PhenoImager™ Solution MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Akoya Biosciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: AKYA), The Spatial Biology Company®, [...]

Illumina Invests in £30M Venture Fund to Advance Breakthroughs in Human Health

Investment from LifeArc, Illumina, and Illumina Ventures will fund genomics startups for Illumina Accelerator Cambridge graduates SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, today announced its participation in Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million genomics venture fund dedicated to providing match funding to startups graduating [...]

H.E.L Group releases iso-BTC+ calorimeter for isothermal battery performance testing

New system offers performance testing on more powerful, larger batteries Iso-BTC+ will be launched at Battery Show Europe, Stuttgart (28-30 June), Battery Cells and Systems Expo in Birmingham (28-9 June) and the 2nd Automotive Power Battery Safety Technology Summit, Hangzhou China (12-13 July). London, UK: H.E.L Group (H.E.L), a global developer and manufacturer of innovative laboratory [...]

Cytomos secures £1.6m additional seed funding to advance cell analysis technology

Edinburgh, UK – Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £1.6m funding to progress the development and qualification of its novel cell analysis platform, Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS). The fundraising round by Cytomos was led by existing investor Archangels with participation from Scottish Enterprise and Old College Capital. Cytomos [...]

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Extends HQ Campus With Building Acquisition

COLUMBIA, Md.  — Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) is pleased to announce the next phase in its planned expansion with the procurement of additional facilities at its headquarters in Columbia, Maryland. The purchase of a new two-story building has been finalized, bringing the campus to a total of three separate properties. SSI is a leader in [...]

Richard Wales, Ph.D., and Neil Bargh of Sartorius Honored as Recipients of 2022 ESACT Innovation Award for the Development of the Sartorius Ambr® Technology

Scientists recognized for their outstanding contributions in automated cell culture technologies to support clonal selection and process development for biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, and cell and gene therapies GÖTTINGEN, Germany -- Sartorius, a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry, is pleased to announce that Richard Wales, Ph.D., and Neal Bargh were named the 2022 [...]

Hitachi High-Tech Launches the AFM100 Pro High-Sensitivity Scanning Probe Microscope System with Improved Detection Sensitivity

Pursuing improved sensitivity when measuring physical properties and measurement at atomic and molecular scales Tokyo – Hitachi High-Tech Corporation ("Hitachi High-Tech") today announced the launch of the AFM100 Pro High-Sensitivity Scanning Probe Microscope System, a high-end scanning probe microscope (AFM*1/SPM*2) equipped with a newly developed high-sensitivity optical head that improves sensitivity when measuring physical properties and [...]

Protochips™ announces the acquisition of the C-Flat™ and Au-flat™ product lines by Electron Microscopy Sciences™ (EMS)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- First launched in 2005, C-Flat has become the industry standard TEM grid within the structural biology community.  Largely driven by the rapid growth of CryoEM and Single Particle Analysis (SPA) techniques, millions of C-flat grids have been used to support samples and help identify structures including viruses and membrane proteins. "With the rapid [...]

Sallie Shuping Russell and Jean Davis are joining the Protochips™ Board of Directors

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Protochips is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the Board of Directors. Protochips has been conducting a search for the best talent and found it. Sallie Shuping Russell is an experienced investor in a diverse array of companies and institutional funds.  She has served on several technology-driven company boards across [...]

Quantistry: Berlin-based software company launches platform for chemical simulations

Today Quantistry announces the official launch of its platform „Quantistry Lab“, a digital chemistry lab for material development simulations. Focused markets are primarily battery development, semiconductors, lubricants, optical as well as specialty chemical industries. Today Quantistry announces the launch of its simulation platform "Quantistry Lab". The cloud-based solution of the Berlin-based software company makes it [...]

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