Funding by CVC Credit has supported five acquisitions since June 2020 CVC Credit is pleased to announce that it has further supported life sciences and diagnostics business, Calibre Scientific, by leading an incremental $57 million multicurrency first lien credit facility to help fuel its ongoing global acquisition strategy. Calibre Scientific is owned by investment firm […]

G+FLAS Life Sciences is applying CRISPR technology to develop research tools and reagents Dublin, Ireland and Seoul, Korea: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and G+FLAS Life Sciences, Inc. (G+FLAS), a biotechnology company developing research tools and reagents associated with CRISPR […]

PARIS and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.: DNA Script, SAS, a leading pioneer in enabling DNA synthesis on demand, and baseclick GmbH announced today an exclusive licensing agreement that grants DNA Script use of the novel “Click” chemistry commercialized by baseclick. In effect, this agreement enables DNA Script’s customers to enzymatically synthesize high purity nucleic acids […]

SEATTLE — Phase Genomics, Inc., the biotech leader providing proximity-ligation solutions for the genomics community, announced today the receipt of a $1.7MM grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). This funding will fuel the commercialization of a first-in-class solution for the discovery of DNA viruses, employing a novel reagent kit and […]

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 that Berry Genomics, a leading commercial next-generation sequencing (NGS) provider in China, will add Twist’s NGS target enrichment and library preparation tools to its offering. The […]

Utrecht, the Netherlands GenDx has completed IVD registration in Canada for two NGSgo products. 1) NGSgo®-AmpX v2 for individual HLA gene amplification 2) NGSgo®-MX6-1 for multiplexed amplification of six HLA genes in one tube The amplification products can be used to obtain high-resolution HLA genotyping information by means of downstream sequencing applications, and genotype analysis […]

WOBURN, Mass. — ABclonal Biotechnology, a global life science tools and services provider, recently completed its $92.9 million Series C financing led by Sequoia Capital China and healthcare-focused investor LYFE Capital. Other new and existing shareholders, such as Sigma Square Capital, Kinghall Ventures, and Lucion Capital, participated in the new round. ABclonal Biotechnology, parent company of Massachusetts-based life […]

MGI makes the following statement: We welcome the Court’s decision to give us the permission to appeal the judgment, and we intend to file its appeal with the Court of Appeal. As permitted by the Court, we will continue to supply sequencing reagents to our existing customers in the UK during the appeal period. Although MGI […]

Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN) today announced an agreement with the Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics at the University Hospital of Tübingen to assess the value of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) as a first-line diagnostic test for patients with genetic diseases and familial cancer syndromes. Illumina will support the new investigator-initiated study, called the Ge-Med […]

Partner program designed to advance Sample to Insight solutions from research to patients leveraging QIAGEN’s unique Knowledge Base Five initial partners sign with QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI) to grow QIAGENs unique genomic Knowledge Base and accelerate access New partnerships to deliver improved AI services and databases in oncology, secondary analysis and combined NGS panels and […]