MGI Tech and NeoGenomica Expand Access to High-Throughput Genomics in Brazil

São Paulo, Brazil – MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), a company delicated to developing tools and technologies that drive innovation in life sciences, today announced a strategic partnership with NeoGenomica, a leading Brazilian laboratory specialising in advanced genetic testing. The collaboration aims to expand access to genomics applications in oncology, rare diseases, and precision medicine [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens Bay Area Cryo-EM Drug Discovery Center to Accelerate Breakthrough Therapies

New South San Francisco center showcases how cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy is transforming and accelerating drug discovery SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced the opening of its Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) Drug Discovery Center (CDDC) in South San Francisco. The new center provides pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovators [...]

PacBio Announces the Appointment of Chris Gibson to the Board of Directors

Proven experience in leveraging AI in biology will strengthen the board of directors as PacBio develops data tools to maximize the power of HiFi sequencing MENLO PARK, Calif. — PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing technologies, today announced the appointment of Christopher Gibson, Ph.D., to PacBio’s Board of Directors. Dr. Gibson [...]

Slingshot Biosciences Appoints Jim Snook as Senior Vice President, Global Sales

Industry veteran brings extensive life sciences commercial leadership experience from Biotechne, Miltenyi Biotec, and Adaptive Biotechnologies EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Slingshot Biosciences, the pioneer of synthetic cell mimic technology for flow cytometry controls, today announced the appointment of Jim Snook as Senior Vice President, Global Sales. In this role, Snook will lead the company's rapidly growing global [...]

Nicoya Lifesciences Announces Launch of FastHDX™, a Millisecond HDX-MS Platform Aimed to Open New Therapeutic Opportunities

FastHDX unlocks millisecond HDX-MS, delivering a 4-5 order-of-magnitude leap in labeling resolution and revealing fast, transient protein dynamics that conventional structural biology methods miss. Early adopter results from top pharmaceutical and academic institutions validate FastHDX for probing transient allosteric states in disease-relevant systems including diabetes, cancer, and Parkinson's disease. Seamless integration with standard LC-MS workflows, [...]

Alliance for Genomic Discovery expands with Regeneron Genetics Center membership and new proteomics data offering

Dataset grows to more than 312,000 whole genomes with longitudinal clinical data GSK is one of the first to lead a further expansion of 50,000 whole genomes paired with proteomic data   SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), and Nashville Biosciences, LLC (NashBio), today announced two advancements in scale and depth of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD [...]

Rigaku Launches NEX QC II Series Benchtop XRF Analyzers for Industrial QC at Pittcon 2026

Fast, reliable elemental analysis built for daily quality control and production use Cedar Park, Texas -- Applied Rigaku Technologies, a division of Rigaku group (Headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami), announces the release of its NEX QC II Series benchtop X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers at Pittcon 2026, held March 7–11 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Pittcon [...]

Alithea Genomics Closes CHF 6.9 M Seed Round, Using Proceeds to Unlock Industrial-Scale RNA-seq for Primary Drug Screening and Toxicology

Appoints Frederik Decouttere as CEO LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Alithea Genomics, an emerging leader in the field of large-scale RNA sequencing and transcriptomics, announced today the closing of its seed financing round with an additional CHF 3 million ($3.9 million), led by Genku Ventures and joined by Novalis Biotech and Zürcher Kantonalbank as well as several [...]

Nikon’s Spatial Omics Analysis Software Technology to be Utilized in Joint Research on Breast Cancer Metastasis Led by the University of Tokyo

Contributing to Cancer Research with Technology that Visualizes Multi-layered Omics Information on Microscopic Images Superimposing multiple spatial omics information onto a microscopic image TOKYO – Nikon Corporation (Nikon) is pleased to announce that its software technology, developed to visualize multiple layers of spatial omics information *1 on microscopic images, was used in joint research led by [...]

TheWell Bioscience Launches RocketCell™ hMSC Xeno-Free Complete Growth Medium for Robust and Reproducible Expansion of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells

MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. -- TheWell Bioscience, a leader in advanced xeno-free cell culture technologies, today announced the launch of RocketCell™ hMSC Xeno-Free Complete Growth Medium, a chemically defined, xeno-free medium engineered for high-performance human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC) expansion and exosome production across research, translational development, and cell therapy manufacturing workflows. As regulatory agencies and industry [...]

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