Company awarded second patent for CellRaft™ technology RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.–Cell Microsystems, a provider of innovative tools and scalable solutions for the sorting and isolation of single cells, announced today it has been awarded a $1.5 million grant under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) SBIR program. The proposed system integrates Cell Microsystems’ proprietary CellRaft Technology […]

Two additional laboratories have now achieved certification to provide Oxford Nanopore sequencing as a service.  There are now service providers operating in Europe, the US, China and Australia. NextOmics (GrandOmics), China NextOmics, a GrandOmics company, has become the third laboratory to certify for service provision of nanopore sequencing. The companies are based in Wuhan and […]

-Conference Call and Webcast Scheduled for Tuesday, January 23 at 7:30 AM ET- HOLLISTON, Mass. — Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO) (the “Company”), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of solutions to advance life science, has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding stock of Data Sciences […]

IPSWICH, Mass. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Recognizing that tomorrow’s innovation relies on exposing the next generation to why science matters today, New England Biolabs® (NEB®) has become the primary sponsor of the LabCentral Learning Lab. LabCentral, Greater Boston’s premier co-working laboratory and launchpad for high-potential life-sciences startups, opened the new community-oriented STEM facility in the fall of 2017 as part of its […]

Arima-HiC services is selected by the prestigious G10K consortium to generate ‘near-gapless’ reference genome assemblies for all vertebrate order species (phase-1). In a second related story, Arima Genomics today launches an early access program for its rapid, robust and easy-to-use Arima-HiC kits to satisfy the high demand for Hi-C technology. San Diego, CA Arima Genomics, […]

STONY BROOK, N.Y.  – Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN; “Applied DNA”, “the Company”), today announced it will introduce a GeoTyping™ Beta Program, for the month of February, to brands and retailers interested in identifying country-of-origin in cases of cotton fiber substitution. Applied DNA is asking those interested to provide cotton samples suspected to contain cotton […]

Extended labelling claim adds detection of three additional gene mutations to provide the most comprehensive mutation panel for GILOTRIF® Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a PMA supplement extending the indications for use of QIAGEN’s therascreen® EGFR […]

Singapore – Vela Diagnostics signs a license agreement with the The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for two technologies, known as:  FLASH (Finding Low Abundance Sequences by Hybridization); and DASH (Depletion of Abundant Sequences of Hybridization) – innovative technologies for enriching rare sequences in nucleic acid libraries. This agreement provides the framework for Vela Diagnostics to use and practice the FLASH and DASH technologies […]

Collaboration to have disruptive impact on the world food supply Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, & Ness Ziona, Israel – Syngenta, a global leading agrochemical and seed company, and NRGene, the premier genomic big data company, have continued to advance their cooperation in breeding and trait discovery in key crops. Syngenta has licensed NRGene’s GenoMAGICTM, a cloud-based big data […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced it has received more than 30 orders for multiple Ion GeneStudio S5 Systems a week after launching the new line of benchtop next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. The sequencers have been purchased by early access laboratories for application areas ranging from cancer research to metagenomics. “We are very excited to start […]