Company Announces New European Headquarters to Serve Growing Customer Demand in Europe, Middle East and Africa Region Also Announces First Commercial Services Provider in Europe MENLO PARK, Calif. — PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate, sequencing platforms, today announced the company’s expansion to better serve customers in the Europe, Middle East and […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced its collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Initiative, Helix, and Rosalind aimed at developing a new genotyping method for SARS-CoV-2 that could speed up the identification of variants as they emerge. Utilizing a […]

Oxford Nanopore releases Short Fragment Mode: a new tool for real-time sequencing of short fragments of DNA Today, Short Fragment Mode will be integrated into the operating software that drives nanopore devices, allowing sequencing of fragments as short as 20 bases on nanopore platforms. OXFORD, ENGLAND — Using nanopore technology, it’s possible to sequence short […]

BOSTON & PARIS — Stilla Technologies, the multiplex digital PCR company, today announced it has entered into agreements with 12 distributors throughout EMEA: LABGENE Scientific (Switzerland), CARLO ERBA Reagents (Italy), Bonsai Lab (Portugal and Spain), SEM (Turkey), Explorea (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary), Biodynamics (Greece), AH diagnostics (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Baltic countries), Alliance Global (Gulf, […]

Cash Investment Expected to Significantly Advance Fluidigm’s Mission through New Growth Initiatives and Cost Structure Optimization SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today urged Fluidigm stockholders to vote “FOR” ALL proposals related to the previously announced strategic capital infusion from leading life sciences investors Casdin Capital, LLC (“Casdin”) and Viking Global Investors LP (“Viking”) at the Company’s upcoming […]

BOSTON — ABclonal Technology, a rapidly growing life science research and diagnostic reagents manufacturer, today announced it has joined the Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) at YCharOS Inc., an open science company with the mission of characterizing commercially available antibody reagents for all human proteins, to tackle the reproducibility crisis observed in biomedical research. Inconsistent antibody […]

BILLERICA, Mass. — SeqLL Inc. (“SeqLL” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SQL; SQLLW), a technology company providing life sciences instrumentation and research services for collaborative partnerships, today announced the formation of a Scientific Advisory Board (“SAB”) comprised of distinguished and world-renowned leaders of the scientific community. The SAB will discuss with management potential new development opportunities […]

— Enhances Stability and Enables Robust Global Shipping and Storage at Room Temperature — 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, today announced the launch of specific synthetic RNA positive controls for SARS-CoV-2 encapsulated in proprietary stainless steel […]

WASHINGTON — The California Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court decision in the murder conviction of Alvin Larry Davis, ruling that DNA evidence produced through the use of STRmix™ forensic software “is generally accepted as reliable by the relevant scientific community.” (C089567; Super.Ct.No.STK-CR-FE-2016-0004780) STRmix™ – sophisticated forensic software capable of resolving mixed DNA profiles that previously […]

Expanding initiative focused on next generation sequencing services helps to advance genomics research CORALVILLE, Iowa — On the heels of Integrated DNA Technologies’ xGen™ NGS portfolio launch in December, MLL, the Munich Leukemia Laboratory, which is one of the leading research and diagnostic laboratories for leukemias and lymphomas, has joined the global genomics solutions provider’s Align Program. The addition […]