SAN DIEGO – TriLink BioTechnologies®, a Maravai LifeSciences company and a leader in the production of nucleic acids for research, diagnostics and therapeutics applications, announced today the addition of two key executives to its leadership team. Ray Kaczmarek joins TriLink as senior vice president of GMP Operations.  Kaczmarek, who has over 20 years of experience […]

DUBLIN, Ireland, and VIENNA, Austria: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Aelian Biotechnology (“Aelian”) today announced the signing of a license agreement granting Aelian access to ERS Genomics’ CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio, to support Aelian’s commercial functional genomic screening platform.  Aelian […]

DUBLIN, Ireland – ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property held by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, announced today that the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected arguments filed in opposition to European patent No. EP2800811 jointly held by Dr. Charpentier, the Regents of the University of California, and […]

NEW YORK — Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) (the “Company”) today disclosed that Harbert Discovery Fund, LP (“Harbert”) filed a lawsuit against the Company and the members of its board of directors (“Board”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Enzo commented as follows: “We are disappointed but not surprised by […]

Dr. Denis Zaccarin Succeeds Phillips to Lead Research and Development MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), a leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced that Michael Phillips has decided to retire from his role as the company’s Senior Vice President of Research and Development as of […]

GenapSys’s highly accurate sequencer is poised to help researchers and public health officials across Asia better track and understand the outbreak Redwood City, Calif. — GenapSys Inc. announced today the launch of its gene sequencer in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, including in Korea, Singapore, Japan, and the fast-growing Chinese gene sequencing market, which is […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has reached an agreement with Twist Bioscience under which Twist has agreed to pay Agilent a sum of $22.5 million to settle Agilent’s claims against Twist, as well as current and former Twist employees Emily Leproust, Siyuan Chen, and Solange Glaize. The claims […]

SAN FRANCISCO — 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 it has reached a settlement agreement with Agilent Technologies to resolve all claims and counterclaims in the trade secret litigation filed by Agilent on February 3, 2016. Under […]

SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Scott Gottlieb, M.D. has joined the company’s Board of Directors, effective February 4, 2020. Dr. Gottlieb is currently a special partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). From 2017 to 2019, he served as […]

Freiburg, Germany | Boston, MA | Today, Eurofins GeneScan Technologies GmbH and UgenTec, Inc. announce the successful NF VALIDATION certification of five real-time PCR kits with the French Association of Standards (AFNOR). The submission and approval are part of an ongoing strategic partnership between Eurofins Genescan Technologies, a provider of RNA / DNA detection kits and UgenTec, a software company […]