SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced the appointment of Brad Kreger as Senior Vice President, Global Operations. In this role, Kreger leads global manufacturing, supply chain, demand planning, and distribution for Fluidigm. As a member of the executive leadership team reporting to President and CEO Chris Linthwaite, Kreger will be responsible for driving long-term strategic changes and process […]

Merck today announced that the Chinese Patent Office has issued a notice granting Merck’s patent application for the company’s CRISPR technology used in a genomic-integration method for eukaryotic cells. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent in China covers integration of an external DNA sequence into the chromosome of eukaryotic cells Company to license CRISPR-related patents to interested parties, […]

University of Cambridge spin-out Qkine has closed its seed investment round supported by Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University, and a team of five angels led by Jim Warwick. The amount is undisclosed. Qkine is a specialist manufacturer of proteins that are used for control of stem cell growth and differentiation. The backing of this strong team […]

The Nomination Committee proposes that Genovis should expand its Board of Directors at the 2018 Annual General Meeting. Under the proposal two directors, Lena Söderström and Peter Hein, will be elected, while Jacob Engellau will leave the Board. Lena Söderström has been CEO of Senzime AB (publ) since 2013 and was previously CEO of Isconova and […]

COPAS Vision, our newest large particle flow cytometer, adds brightfield imaging to our large particle sorting capabilities. As with our original COPAS platform of flow cytometers it provides automated high throughput analysis and sorting of viable multicellular organisms, cell clusters, bead-based libraries and other samples that are too large or too fragile for traditional flow […]

Shenzhen, China—BGI launched its self-sampling NGS-based HPV genotyping product, SentisTM-HPVseq, to the global market today. This product provides detection of both high-risk and low-risk HPV types, which is recognized as an effective method for primary cervical cancer screening. The method used in this HPV genotyping sequencing assay was developed by BGI research team, which has […]

60-90 Minute Microbial ID of 2,700 Species from Positive Blood Cultures, Combined with Functional Testing of Cephalosporin- and Carbapenem-Resistance on MALDI Biotyper®, Addresses Clinical Need MADRID — New CE-IVD Fast Sepsityper® solution: for MALDI-Biotyper (MBT) identification (ID) of over 2,700 microbial species from Positive Blood Cultures (PBC) with less hands-on time; Novel CE-IVD MBT STAR®-Cepha kit: for rapid, functional antibiotic resistance testing against Cephalosporins […]

New vessel for ambr® 250 ht system will enable cost-effective, scalable process development of vaccines in cell culture Premieres at the BPI European Summit in Amsterdam Goettingen, Germany — Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry today announced the launch of a new mini bioreactor vessel for its ambr® 250 high throughput (ht) […]

Beacon Platform Adopted To Speed Cell Line Development Emeryville, Calif. – Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a company dedicated to bringing to market transformational platforms for biopharmaceutical processes, announced today Sanofi purchased the Beacon platform to accelerate their cell line development (CLD) process. Based on data from the pilot study, the Beacon platform quickly and efficiently identified target […]

Posters by early adopters demonstrate accurate, fast, cost-effective and flexible diagnosis of syndromic infections and other diseases in unique and versatile Sample to Insight workflows Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of QIAstat-Dxâ in Europe, providing a one-step, fully integrated molecular analysis of common syndromes […]