WASHINGTON — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) (the “Company”) announced today that Danaher has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Aldevron, for a cash purchase price of approximately $9.6 billion. Danaher expects to finance the acquisition using cash on hand and/or proceeds from the issuance of commercial paper. Founded in 1998 by Michael Chambers and John Ballantyne, Aldevron is headquartered […]

InSphero and Pharmaceutical Companies Form Pre-Competitive Consortium to Advance Development of In Vitro Tools to Screen and Predict Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) DILI is of significant concern to the pharmaceutical industry and regulatory authorities due to limitations of existing preclinical animal modelsFounding members include Pfizer, Sanofi, Merck Healthcare KGaA, and Genentech Schlieren, Switzerland – InSphero AG, the […]

Collaboration Will Utilize the nCounter Analysis System to Characterize CAR-T Regimens Designed to Improve Patient Outcomes SEATTLE & SAN FRANCISCO —  NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) announced today that they are collaborating on an expansive […]

New solution promises to accelerate experimental success and improve process reliability as industry looks to faster drug discovery post-Covid Wetzlar, Germany — Leica Microsystems has today announced the launch of the Leica Nano workflow: a new live-cell correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) workflow solution designed to increase experimental success rates, improve reproducibility, and simplify […]

CODEX’s single-cell, multiplex imaging capabilities to be included in Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grantee toolkit to help fuel the next wave of biological discoveries MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — Akoya Biosciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: AKYA) The Spatial Biology Company®, today announced that it will be offering the CODEX® solution’s single-cell, whole-tissue imaging capabilities to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s (CZI) grantees, […]

Enhanced solution delivers balance of speed and quality to accelerate and expedite DNA to Investigational New Drug in as little as 13 months WALTHAM, Mass. — BIO DIGITAL 2021 – New and emerging biopharma companies working on early development can now leverage a better lab to clinic drug development solution designed to accelerate the journey from DNA […]

Combines Veranome Biosystems’ world-class, high-definition imaging from the semiconductor field with Portal Bioscience’s highly specific probe ligation-based biochemistry Enables tracking of fragmented RNA often found in FFPE specimens Promises detection of mutations, gene fusions and splice variants MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and BALTIMORE — Veranome Biosystems LLC and Portal Bioscience LLC today announced the companies have […]

MINNEAPOLIS and LONDON — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), a leader in developing innovative tools and technologies for cell and gene therapy research and manufacturing, has partnered with Autolomous to implement a first of its kind electronic batch record system, AutoloMATETM, at Bio-Techne’s GMP cellular manufacturing center. Through this partnership Bio-Techne will be able to offer […]

Fueling Discovery in Preserved Tissue Samples to Advance Clinical Translational Research PLEASANTON, Calif. — 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG) today announced it is shipping its new Visium Spatial Gene Expression for FFPE (formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded) assay. The offering gives researchers access to the whole transcriptome across their entire tissue, enabling true unbiased discovery in FFPE […]

Integration of Sophion QPatch II and Qube 384 instruments with Genedata Screener enterprise software streamlines molecular testing on ion channels in pharma R&D. Basel, Switzerland and Ballerup, Denmark—June 09, 2021—Genedata, the leading provider of enterprise software solutions for biopharmaceutical R&D, today announced Sophion Bioscience, a global leader in automated patch clamp (APC) technology, as a […]