Illumina Donates $1 Million in Sequencing Capabilities to Mumbai to Support Sequencing-Based COVID-19 Surveillance in India

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) has donated $1 million in sequencing capabilities to the Molecular Diagnostic Reference Laboratory at Kasturba Hospital, in the Municipal Corporate of Greater Mumbai, to help expand SARS-CoV-2 sequencing capabilities in the region and support the broader genomic surveillance effort across India. Kasturba Hospital was the first hospital in [...]

Partnership between Central Scientific Commerce and Cytosurge

Central Scientific Commerce, Inc. (CSC) and Cytosurge AG partner to distribute Cytosurge’s FluidFM OMNIUM system for unprecedented single cell research in the Japanese market Zurich | We are delighted to announce our collaboration with CSC, a well-established and renowned Japanese organization specialized in the distribution of systems for life science research. Within this partnership, CSC [...]

Abcam to acquire BioVision for $340 million

Cambridge, UK  – Abcam plc (“Abcam”, “the Company” or “the Group”) (AIM LSE: ABC; Nasdaq: ABCM), a global leader in the supply of life science research tools, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BioVision, Inc. (“BioVision”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Boai NKY Medical Holdings Ltd. (“NKY”), for $340 million (the [...]

908 Devices Expands Scientific Advisory Board, Creates Dedicated Proteomics Panel

Company appoints six new members to SAB to maximize the company’s impact in the proteomics domain BOSTON -- 908 Devices (NASDAQ: MASS), a pioneer of purpose-built handheld and desktop mass spec devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis, today announced the forthcoming appointment of six new individuals to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), including Prof. Ileana Cristea, Prof. Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Prof. Anne-Claude [...]

TriLink BioTechnologies® Extends Global Support of Covid-19 Vaccine Development into APAC Region with the Chula Vaccine Research Center (Chula VRC), Bangkok

TriLink enables Chula VRC to take its Covid-19 vaccine into a First in Human (FIH) phase 1 clinical trial in Thailand with mRNA manufacturing process development and its proprietary mRNA capping technology, ushering a much-needed vaccine into economically developing countries SAN DIEGO -- TriLink BioTechnologies (“TriLink”), a Maravai LifeSciences company (Nasdaq: MRVI) and a leader in [...]

SomaLogic Announces Appointment of Shaun Blakeman as Chief Financial Officer

NEW YORK & BOULDER, Colo. —CM Life Sciences II (NASDAQ: CMIIU) and SomaLogic, a leader in AI-data driven proteomics technology, today announced the appointment of Shaun Blakeman as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. “We are thrilled to welcome Shaun Blakeman to the SomaLogic team,” said SomaLogic Chief Executive Officer Roy Smythe, M.D. “His depth of [...]

RIGAKU ACQUIRES LIFE SCIENCE IMAGING EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER MILABS

Full-Scale Entry into the Global Life Sciences Business Rigaku Corporation (Headquarters: Akishima-shi, Tokyo; President: Toshiyuki Ikeda; "Rigaku"), a leading manufacturer of X-ray analysis equipment, has acquired all issued shares of MILabs B.V. (Headquarters: Houten, The Netherlands; CEO and CSO: Dr. Frederik Beekman; “MILabs”) on August 2, 2021, as part of their full-scale effort to enter [...]

Euformatics receives funding from Amazon Web Services and is selected by SYNLAB to design and deploy cloud-based genomic variant analysis software including COVID-19 variant surveillance

HELSINKI, Finland --  Finnish bioinformatics software company Euformatics has been awarded funding through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Diagnostic Development Initiative to deliver a revolutionary COVID-19 variant surveillance software tool. SYNLAB has agreed to be the first customer of the solution developed under the program. The funding also covers broader deployment of cloud-based tools around human [...]

TAAG Genetics Secures AOAC Validation for F41 VIP PCR Kit

ST. CHARLES, Ill. -- TAAG Genetics announced today that its TAAG F41 VIP kit, a multiplex real-time PCR assay capable of detecting four separate foodborne pathogens in a single reaction, has been granted Performance Tested MethodsSM status from the AOAC Research Institute (certification #072101). AOAC promotes and conducts activities to help develop, improve, and validate proprietary testing methods. [...]

Thomas Scientific Achieves ISO Certification

SWEDESBORO, NEW JERSEY – The nation’s largest pure-play distributor of scientific products, Thomas Scientific, has successfully completed ISO 9001:2015 Certification for all seven of its United States facilities as of July 28th, 2021. The certification affirms Thomas Scientific’s conformance to ISO 9001:2015 standards at the following facilities: Swedesboro, NJ (headquarters); Candler, NC; Greensboro, NC; Irvine, CA; [...]

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