EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, announced the appointment of Lucas Vitale to the newly created role of Chief Human Resources Officer (“CHRO”), effective immediately. Vitale will lead Berkeley Lights’ Human Resources function. He will report directly to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Siddhartha Kadia. […]

FREDsense will leverage Ginkgo’s strain development platform capabilities to develop advanced biosensors capable of detecting harmful molecules and toxins in any water source CALGARY, Canada and BOSTON — FREDsense Technologies Corp, a next generation water quality platform company leveraging synthetic biology to build field kits for faster, cheaper, and more efficient analysis, and Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a life science company advancing precision medicine through its innovative transcriptome-wide profiling technology, announced it has expanded its therapeutics team with the addition of Christina M. Carruthers, Ph.D., an experienced program leader in drug discovery and development. Dr. Carruthers joins HTG as Vice President of […]

Votes cast exclusively through the independent proxy in line with COVID-19 Ordinance 3 of the Swiss government to combat the pandemic Increase in the dividend from CHF 2.30 to CHF 2.80 per share Myra Eskes elected as new member of the Board of Directors Lukas Braunschweiler, Heinrich Fischer, Oliver Fetzer, Karen Huebscher, Christa Kreuzburg and Daniel R. Marshak re-elected as members of […]

SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, today announced preliminary total product and service revenue of approximately $31 million for the first quarter. This unaudited estimate, based on management’s preliminary financial analysis, is lower than the company’s previous guidance for product and service revenue […]

ReiThera and Exothera Collaborate to Develop Large-scale, Low Cost per Dose Manufacturing Process to Deliver Novel Vaccines to Low- and Middle- Income Countries Collaboration awarded €3 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Focus on developing a scale-up manufacturing process for the production of ReiThera’s vaccine candidates based on its GRAd platform, including […]

National University Corporation Osaka University (“Osaka University”), Shimadzu Corporation (“Shimadzu”), and SIGMAXYZ Inc. (“SIGMAXYZ”) have signed an agreement on collaboration for “social implementation of 3D bioprinting technology.” Prior to this, Osaka University and Shimadzu Corporation also signed a joint research agreement on the development of automated production equipment for tailor-made cultured meat using 3D bioprinting. […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) and Cygnus Technologies, part of Maravai LifeSciences (NASDAQ: MRVI), announced today the launch of the Simple Plex™ HEK 293 HCP 3G assay for automated process impurity testing on the Ella™ immunoassay platform. Purification of viral particles to minimize host cell protein (HCP) contaminants is a crucial aspect of the […]

Regional Solution Center in São Paulo, Brazil will enable customer access to next-generation sequencing training and expertise to improve patient outcomes  SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, today announced the launch of its new state-of-the-art Solution Center in São Paulo, Brazil. The choice to bring the facility to […]