Acquisition brings unprecedented scale and speed to organism design BOSTON — Ginkgo Bioworks, the organism company, announced today the acquisition of Gen9, a pioneer in the synthesis and assembly of DNA. The acquisition will bring Gen9’s unique expertise in assembling pathway-length synthetic DNA into Ginkgo’s automated organism engineering foundries, enabling improved speed and capacity in the […]

ROCHESTER, NY and ST LOUIS, MO – Adarza BioSystems, Inc., a leading next generation innovator in label-free, multiplex assays, announced today that it has closed a $17M Series C financing. Proceeds from the financing will be used to further expand production capacity in its St. Peters, MO manufacturing facility and fund final development and commercialization […]

Tewksbury, MA – Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL), the world’s leading supplier of stable isotopes and stable isotope-enriched compounds, is pleased to offer Mouse Express® NeuCode™ mouse feed with different combinations of lysine (Lys) isotopologues for 2- and 3-plex, MS proteomic analysis. The mouse is the most commonly used animal model in biological and biomedical […]

AMSBIO announce a new range of ready-to-use adeno-associated virus (AAV) biosensor products. These viruses encode your chosen biosensor, either calcium or glutamate sensor and are ready for in vivo injection. The new range of Calcium or Glutamate biosensor products comes with a choice of promoter and the ability to include the Cre inducible (FLEx-ON) expression. […]

Uppsala, Sweden: Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, announced today the appointment of Gerrit van den Dool to its Board of Directors, as a Non-Executive Director. With more than 25 years’ experience in the life science industry and with his expertise in sales […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Synthomics, Inc., an emerging developer of next-generation systems for oligonucleotide synthesis, announced today that it has completed seed round financing and has launched an early access program for its end-to-end DNA synthesis platform. The financing round was anchored by TEEC Angel Fund (https://www.teec-angel.com), a Palo Alto, CA-based Micro VC fund with an […]

Unique technology portfolio enables design space characterization, effective translation to the large-scale and enhanced process analytics Goettingen, Germany / Aubagne, France —Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, has developed an innovative and fully integrated technology platform to meet the requirements of today’s upstream bioprocessing. It will allow customers to adopt […]

New Two-Year Agreement with Belgian University to Focus on Detecting Genetic Abnormalities in Cell-free DNA and Embryo Biopsies SANTA CLARA, Calif.  Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it is extending its collaboration with the Centre for Human Genetics of the University of Leuven and the University Hospital of Leuven in Belgium. Joris Vermeesch, […]

Mountain View, CA—Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. (“TBUSH”) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Rubicon Genomics, Inc. (“Rubicon”), Rubicon has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of TBUSH as of January 17, 2017 (US local time). The Takara Bio Group provides a wide range of life science products and services under the Takara, Clontech, and […]

SAN ANTONIO–StemBioSys Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with VWR (NASDAQ: VWR) to distribute and market StemBioSys products. VWR, the leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production facilities, will be the exclusive distributor for StemBioSys in both the United States and Canada. “I cannot overstate […]