Michael Bolle Appointed Designated Chairman of Carl Zeiss AG Supervisory Board

The Carl Zeiss AG shareholders' meeting has appointed Dr. Michael Bolle the new Supervisory Board member to represent the sole shareholder the Carl Zeiss Foundation. He will be elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Carl Zeiss AG in January 2022. Dr. Bolle will succeed Dr. Dieter Kurz, whose mandate as Chairman of the Supervisory [...]

Menarini Silicon Biosystems announces new DEPArray™ PLUS application to identify mutations in FFPE tissue samples with low tumor cellularity

Tissue biopsies with tumor cell contents that are too low for conventional testing methods can now be rescued due to the ability of MSB’s DEPArray technology* to successfully recover low numbers of tumor cells from these difficult samples. The new FFPE Rescue Application* will provide pathology labs with a validated workflow to identify potentially targetable [...]

GenScript Biotech Expands to the United Kingdom with New Offices and Logistics Center

Oxford expansion supports U.K. customers with fast turnaround time on research products, and technical support OXFORD, England --GenScript Biotech Corp., a global biotechnology group, announced today that it has expanded operations in the United Kingdom with new offices and a fully functional logistics center in Oxford. The facility supports U.K. customers with fast delivery of [...]

Bio-Rad Appoints Simon May Executive Vice President and Life Science Group President

HERCULES, Calif.– Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the appointment of Simon May as Executive Vice President and President of the Life Science Group, effective January 4, 2022. He succeeds Annette Tumolo who will retire from this role at that time. Dr. [...]

Myra Eskes to be proposed to the upcoming Annual General Meeting as a new member of Tecan’s Board of Directors

Männedorf, Switzerland – Tecan Group Ltd. (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that its Board of Directors will propose the election of Myra Eskes as a new independent member of the Board at Tecan’s next Annual General Meeting on April 12, 2022. Tecan, a pioneer and global leader in laboratory automation for life sciences and diagnostics, expanded into the medical devices sector with the acquisition of Paramit Corporation in August 2021. With more than [...]

SINGULAR GENOMICS LAUNCHES THE G4 SEQUENCING PLATFORM

NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING PLATFORM WILL PROVIDE UP TO THREE TIMES MORE DATA OUTPUT PER HOUR THAN OTHER BENCHTOP INSTRUMENTS, WHILE OFFERING FLEXIBLE RUN CAPACITY – LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Singular Genomics Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMIC), a company leveraging novel next-generation sequencing (NGS) and multiomics technologies to empower researchers and clinicians, today announced the commercial launch of [...]

Sosei Heptares Enters Antibody Discovery Agreement with Twist Bioscience to Discover and Develop Novel Therapeutic Antibodies Against GPCR Targets

Collaboration aims to combine Twist’s proprietary synthetic antibody libraries and sophisticated bioinformatics expertise with Sosei Heptares’ world-leading StaR® (stabilized receptor) platform to generate novel antibody leads to disease-relevant GPCR targets SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Twist Bioscience Corporation (Nasdaq: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, [...]

Sartorius strengthens its bioanalytics portfolio by acquiring a majority stake in ALS Automated Lab Solutions

The life science group Sartorius is expanding its bioanalytics portfolio by acquiring a majority stake in ALS Automated Lab Solutions GmbH. The laboratory technology company based in Jena, Germany, develops, manufactures and markets solutions for the automated analysis, selection and isolation of cells. With these solutions, ALS enables life science customers to significantly reduce time [...]

WHO WE ARE ABOUT BICO COMPANIES WHAT IS BIO CONVERGENCE? BICO VOICES WHAT WE DO BUSINESS AREAS RESEARCH EVENTS SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES Ending Animal Testing NEWS PRESS RELEASES BICO IN THE PRESS INVESTORSEnglish ENGLISH SVENSKA BICO has entered into an agreement to acquire Biosero, a leading software provider for automated workflows and laboratory connectivity

The addition of Biosero’s software capabilities brings immediate synergies and will allow BICO to offer its customers fully automated and connected workflow solutions using the combination of technologies and products from current portfolio companies together with Biosero’s software solutions. In the short to mid-term, these cross-business synergies have the potential to unlock large orders related to [...]

EpiCypher® announces co-exclusive licensing of foundational CUT&RUN / CUT&Tag IP

Research Triangle Park, NC  – – EpiCypher, Inc. announces the co-exclusive licensing of CUT&RUN / CUT&Tag technology from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. This agreement strengthens EpiCypher’s intellectual property portfolio that includes CUT&RUN / CUT&Tag workflows for both Research Use Only (RUO) and diagnostics applications. EpiCypher is now firmly established as the leading commercial developer [...]

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