Cambridge, United Kingdom – Congenica, the global diagnostic decision support platform provider, today announced it has entered into an agreement with a new strategic partner Digital China Health Technologies Cooperation Limited (DCHealth), further extending Congenica’s commitment to the Chinese market. The new partnership will see Congenica develop a version of its Sapientia™ platform designed to enable clinicians and […]

QIAGEN to launch two Sample to Insight systems in Europe and other markets, NeuMoDx to commercialize in the U.S. / Initial assay menu for infectious diseases and LDTs Hilden, Germany, and Ann Arbor, Michigan – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and NeuMoDx Molecular, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to commercialize two new […]

Cambridge, UK: Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, today introduced Cyto-Mine® Studio Software Suite, an updated software for its innovative Cyto-Mine Single Cell Analysis System. The software works alongside industry-standard robotic platforms and corporate databases to improve antibody discovery and cell line development workflows. Sphere Fluidics’ Cyto-Mine is an […]

BEIJING — Genecast Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (Genecast) announced it has just reached strategic partnership agreement with the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, Illumina. Genecast will seek to advance cancer diagnosis using Illumina’s next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. Both companies are at the forefront of their fields – Illumina in gene sequencing and Genecast in […]

-Streamlining the Gene Testing Processes to Standardize the Testing- Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu), Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (HQ: Tokyo, Japan; President & Representative Director: Shingo Kaneko) and RIKEN GENESIS Co., Ltd. (HQ: Tokyo, Japan; President & CEO; Naoto Kondo) have jointly developed the LW-100 Gene Measurement Analyzer (research use […]

SEATTLE. Bruker today announced the introduction of the new preclinical PET/CT Si78 scanner for whole-body molecular imaging at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (www.wmis.org/2018-wmic). It combines Bruker’s novel PET and outstanding micro-CT technologies in a single scanner operated by the multi-modality imaging software platform ParaVision™ 360. The PET/CT Si78 is addressing the latest needs of preclinical imaging scientists […]

New York, New York – BelHealth Investment Partners, LLC (“BelHealth”), a New York-based healthcare private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired Gemini Bio-Products, Inc. (“Gemini” or the “Company”), a leading biological reagents manufacturer and supplier serving the scientific community across academic research and the biotechnology and biopharma industries. Founded in 1985 and headquartered […]

Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon” or “the Company”), a global leader in gene editing and gene modulation technologies, today announces AstraZeneca has adopted its Edit-R™ crRNA libraries as part of AstraZeneca’s drive to establish a functional genomics discovery platform. AstraZeneca also joins the Genomics Discovery Initiative (GDI), a collaborative functional genomics screening […]

New Line of DNA- and RNA-Sequencing Library Preparation Kits Produce Highest Library Yield While Maintaining Quality During Sample Preparation BOSTON — ABclonal Technology, a dynamic and growing provider of biological reagents for life science research, today unveiled its new line of next-generation sequencing library preparation kits (NGS lib prep kits), one of the industry’s highest-yielding […]

High-quality reference genomes for thousands of plant, animal and microbial species to be created using SMRT SequencingMENLO PARK, Calif. — When creating a genomic ark of creatures great and small, scientists across the globe are turning to the comprehensive coverage and quality of long-read sequencing technology from Pacific Biosciences (Nasdaq:PACB), the leading provider of high-quality sequencing […]