– The acquisition complements Merck’s existing products in food pathogen testing – Enables Merck to offer its customers complete workflow solutions for food pathogen testing  DARMSTADT, Germany — Merck, a leading life science and technology company, today announced it has acquired BioControl Systems Inc., a global leader in food safety testing. The acquisition opens growth opportunities for […]

This time last year Bibby Scientific was purchased by Cole-Parmer. As part of our integration, from January 2017, Bibby Scientific will be changing company name to Cole-Parmer Ltd. As part of Cole-Parmer we will continue to grow and provide a comprehensive range of laboratory equipment and consumables. All of Bibby Scientific’s existing manufacturing processes and […]

BREMEN, Germany — Bruker today announced the acquisition of SCiLS GmbH inBremen, Germany.  SCiLS develops innovative software tools such as statistical analysis software, sophisticated visualization viewers, and secure cloud-based services for collaborative interpretation of complex mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) data sets.  Financial details were not disclosed. Founded as a spin-off from the University of Bremen, the SCiLS […]

BERLIN — Bruker today announced the acquisition of InVivo Biotech Services GmbH (www.invivo.de), headquartered in Hennigsdorf, Germany, near Berlin. InVivo Biotech is a molecular biology contract manufacturing organization (CMO), and a leading provider of monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins. InVivo Biotech also has significant experience in the development and production of innovative immunoassay components and research kits. In […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. and BEIJING — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.(Nasdaq:PACB), today announced that GrandOmics Biosciences Co., Ltd of Beijing, through its subsidiary NextOmics in Wuhan, has agreed to purchase five additional Sequel™ instruments to support China’s precision medicine initiative, with a specific focus on ultimately providing the genetic diagnosis of inherited diseases. GrandOmics was […]

Synthego to change the pace of biological research with automation, precision, and machine learning REDWOOD CITY, CA – Synthego, a leading provider of genome engineering solutions, announces today a $41 million Series B financing. Since the company’s founding in 2012, Synthego has raised a total of $50 million. The investment is led by technology venture […]

Collaboration with Dell EMC Delivers Compute and Storage for Healthcare and Life Sciences Customers  STORY HIGHLIGHTS New Edico Genome bundle offers a pre-configured, out-of-the-box solution for rapid analysis and efficient storage of next-generation sequencing data. Available now, the solution allows for simple implementation for users while reducing storage costs, speeding analysis and maintaining high accuracy. […]

BC Platforms, a world leader in genomic data management solutions, today announced that it has been selected to take part in a large global new partnership called ‘MultipleMS’. Coordinated by Karolinska Institute in Sweden, the MultipleMS consortium has been awarded 15 million euro from the European Commission in the Horizon2020 program to find novel and […]

SAN DIEGO– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), continuing its strategy to bring the power of genomics into clinical applications, today announced it has named one of the world’s top clinical genomics experts to head its clinical genomics unit. Garret Hampton, PhD, will join as Executive Vice President of Clinical Genomics for the company, starting January 9, […]

New fluorescence option enables specific applications in cell line development Bournemouth, UK – Solentim, the developer of instrumentation for cell line development, announced today that it has launched a major enhancement for its world leading verification of clonality platform, the Cell Metric®. This enhancement, which enables two channel fluorescence on the Cell Metric and Cell Metric […]