License agreement to enhance Nippon Gene’s CRISPR/Cas9 research reagents offering Dublin, Ireland and Tokyo, Japan, 01 July 2021: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Nippon Gene Co., Ltd (Nippon Gene), a manufacturer of genetic engineering research reagents and diagnostic reagents […]

Shoreline Biome’s microbiome products now available in the Nordics FARMINGTON, Conn.— Shoreline Biome, a leading microbiome company that develops complete solutions for characterizing microbiome populations down to the strain level, has entered into a partnership with AH diagnostics A/S for product distribution.  Shoreline Biome’s complete suite of products for use on the industry leading next […]

Global strategic alliance to leverage Sysmex’s Plasma-Safe-SeqS technology QIAGEN will use ultra-sensitive liquid biopsy applications in oncology Alliance boosts QIAGEN’s co-development of companion diagnostics with drug makers QIAGEN expects significant benefits for pharma companies and cancer patients worldwide Hilden, Germany, Germantown, Maryland, and Kobe, Japan – QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced […]

Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting biologics and gene therapy researchers the right tools for the job, launched a new application suite for the characterization of nanoparticles on Stunner today. Stunner is already the go-to solution for AAV titer and empty/full ratio measurements, and now it takes on payload quant […]

Tromsø, Norway — ArcticZymes Technologies ASA (OSE: AZT) announces the launch of the second generation of its SAN HQ enzyme ArcticZymes Technologies´ Salt Active Nuclease High Quality (SAN HQ) enzyme has achieved significant penetration in the viral vector manufacturing space in the last 5 years. Viral vectors are used in therapeutic applications such as vaccines […]

Pleasanton, Calif.—Apton Biosystems, Inc., a developer of Super-Res sequencing and single-molecule detection systems for large-scale clinical applications, such as early cancer detection and population sequencing, today announced the close of a $24 million Series-A financing. The financing was led by Kern Capital with participation by new and existing investors including Casdin Capital and Khosla Ventures. […]

— Accelerates Conversion from Microarray to Genotyping by Sequencing– — Expands NGS Capabilities into New Markets — 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 acquisition of iGenomX, a company offering multiplex library […]

HELSINKI, Finland —  Euformatics, a bioinformatics software company providing world-leading NGS interpretation and quality control tools has signed a distribution agreement with INSVAST, a company specialising in delivering bioinformatics solutions to Chinese NGS laboratories. The agreement covers the full omnomics Suite of products from Euformatics and provides INSVAST with a full end-to-end offering to their customers […]

Porvair Sciences has further expanded its range of high-performance microplate products for SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid purification. The new KF deep well plate and tip comb plate combo are specifically designed to enhance the performance and productivity of the market-leading Thermo Scientific™ KingFisher™ range of nucleic acid purification systems. Krzysztof Kielmann, microplates product manager at Porvair Sciences commented “The Kingfisher Flex […]

Element Biosciences, developer of a new and disruptive DNA sequencing platform, today announced the close of a $276 million Series C financing. New investors Janus Henderson Investors, Logos Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), and T. Rowe Price joined existing investors Fidelity Management & Research Company, Foresite Capital, JS Capital Management LLC, RA Capital Advisors, and Venrock. With this latest investment, Element Biosciences […]