Acquisition affirms Agilent’s strategic intent to grow in the diagnostics space and build a complete routine clinical NGS workflow SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Lasergen, Inc. (Lasergen) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire the remaining shares of Lasergen, an emerging biotechnology company focused on […]

Electrophoretics Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Proteome Sciences plc, is pleased to announce that it has signed an amendment to the exclusive License and Distribution Agreement with Pierce Biotechnology Inc., a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., extending the current license to include intellectual property relating to a new class of higher-plex TMT® reagents […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Twist Bioscience Corporation, a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA, today announced the completion of a private placement of $50 million, bringing the total raised to $259 million since the company’s founding in 2013. “We have used our proprietary DNA synthesis platform, which delivers precision at […]

Maximizing synergies and further expanding the bio-medical business FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno) has announced today that it is acquiring all the outstanding shares* of Irvine Scientific Sales Company, Inc. (ISUS) and IS JAPAN CO.,LTD., (ISJ) leading companies in cell culture media, and signed a stock purchase agreement for about US$800 million today. In recent years, […]

LA JOLLA, CA — March 29, 2018 —SGI-DNA Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), today launched BioXp™ Libraries for rapidly building diverse synthetic DNA fragments including degenerate, scanning, and variant libraries. For researchers working in drug discovery biology, structural biology, synthetic biology, and antibody and enzyme engineering, BioXp™ Libraries overcome several traditional […]

SANTA ANA, California: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation has announced it has agreed to sell Irvine Scientific Sales Company, Inc. and IS Japan Co., Ltd. to FUJIFILMCorporation (FujiFilm). JXTG Energy acquired Irvine Scientific in 1987 and launched IS Japan in 1989; both companies have continuously expanded to become significant suppliers of cell culture media and products […]

Critical step in strengthening productivity of world’s most popular vegetarian oil and protein source Ness Ziona, Israel & Columbia, Missouri – Dr. Henry Nguyen, a Curators’ distinguished professor of plant sciences in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, has employed NRGene DeNovoMAGICTM, the world’s most popular genome assembly tool for crop plants, […]

Redwood City, California – Synthego, a leading provider of genome enineering solutions, today announced that genomic industry pioneer Dr. Jennifer Doudna has joined the company’s advisory board. Doudna, best known for co-inventing CRISPR, will advise Synthego on a variety of product, partnership, and business strategy initiatives to help amplify the company’s fast-growing impact in the genome engineering […]

BALTIMORE – Elixirgen Scientific has begun selling a variety of cell-based human disease models after signing a new agreement, which allows the company to produce and distribute cells differentiated from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)’s human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) repository. Elixirgen Scientific’s proprietary technology (Quick-Tissue™) makes highly efficient differentiation of hPSCs, such […]

BioIVT now offers unique and proprietary bioengineered micro-liver platforms for use in environmental testing, preventive care, and product development in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, cosmetics, and chemical industries  Westbury, NY –  BioIVT, a leading provider of biospecimens and related services, today announced that it has acquired Ascendance Biotechnology, Inc. Ascendance was formed in November 2015 from […]