The two organizations will work closely to build support for the bipartisan FDA Modernization Act and reduce animal testing by promoting human-specific medical research technologies that include advanced in-vitro tissue models and 3D bioprinting. Today BICO, a leading bio convergence company, announced a partnership with the Center for Contemporary Sciences (CCS), a research and advocacy […]

Oxford, UK: The Native Antigen Company (part of LGC Clinical Diagnostics), one of the world’s leading suppliers of reagents that enables research into vaccines and diagnostics for emerging and endemic infectious diseases, today announced the expansion of its norovirus-like particle range, with the addition of six new reagents, including four which are unique to the market. These […]

OMIQ is a powerful flow cytometry SaaS solution adopted by leading global biopharma labs San Diego, CA: Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announced today that it has acquired Omiq Inc, a company specialized in data science SaaS solutions for high dimensional flow cytometry and quantitative multi-omics data. The company’s principal product, […]

Former Beyond Meat COO and CFO, Mark J. Nelson joins SnapDNA’s Board of Directors Broomfield, CO—SnapDNA today announced the appointment of Mark J. Nelson to the SnapDNA Board of Directors. “We are pleased to welcome Mr. Nelson to the SnapDNA Board”, said David Medin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SnapDNA. “Mark’s deep experience in […]

Oxford Nanopore worked with a team led by Stanford University School of Medicine in a research study to develop a rapid, whole genome sequencing approach, that: Improves prognosis in critically ill patients and guides clinical management at least as well as current short read technologies. Reduces the time to identify disease-causing genetic variants — to as little […]

TOKYO — Sony Corporation (“Sony”) today introduced a new Cell Isolation System, CGX10, which sorts cells at high speed and high purity in a closed system. The CGX10′s design enables sorting of cells in a manner that is entirely closed off from the outside environment, making it possible to analyze and isolate cells while maintaining […]

LOS ANGELES — Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of BrightBox Quantitation, a highly specialized reagent manufacturer headquartered in San Mateo, California. BrightBox Quantitation produces and distributes a proprietary assay kit for rapid quantification of DNA or RNA NGS library molecules. BrightBox Quantitation joins EdgeBio, a division of Calibre Scientific, further enhancing Calibre […]

Amsterdam, the Netherlands – LUMICKS today announced it has successfully installed a Quadruple C-Trap® Optical Tweezers – Fluorescence & Label-free Microscopy system at Rockefeller University, a leading biomedical research university in New York City. The C-Trap will support the research of Prof. Michael O’Donnell to investigate the mechanisms of DNA replication. Prof. O’Donnell collaborates with Prof. Shixin Liu, an […]

Due to recently filed counterclaims in patent lawsuit by Organovo, Inc., (“Organovo”) to the Federal Court in Delaware, BICO Group AB (“BICO”) releases the following statement to explain the background and context. BICO, CELLINK and all our group companies respect valid intellectual property and believe that Organovo’s patent claims at issue are invalid, not infringed, […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing platforms, today announced a research collaboration with Google. Under the terms of the collaboration, PacBio will explore the use of Google’s genomic analysis, machine learning and algorithm development tools to further improve PacBio’s already highly accurate variant calls for HiFi sequencing […]