Two Ann Arbor biotech companies provide translational researchers a faster, more comprehensive way to design Accel-Amplicon panels for variant discovery and screening studies ANN ARBOR, Michigan) – Swift Biosciences—the NGS Library Prep company—and Genomenon—the leading genomic literature search engine company— announced today a new partnership to revolutionize the design of targeted gene sequencing panels for precision […]

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Program Implements Beacon Platform for Creating Workflow Efficiencies to Accelerate the Drug Development Process   Emeryville, Calif. – Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, announced today a program with Taipei-based TPG Biologics, Inc. (TPG), a leading cell line development company in Asia, focused on using the Beacon®opto-fluidic platform to accelerate TPG’s cell […]

Results-driven, customer-focused leader to drive continued expansion in personalized medicine, disease research markets (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) Swift Biosciences, a leading provider of innovative library prep solutions for genomic sequencing, today named industry veteran Nathan Wood as its new CEO. The hire is the latest in a recent series of strategic moves by Swift to solidify its […]

New York, NY – Envisagenics, Inc., a New York based biotechnology company, announced today that it was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This grant will provide $1.5 million over two years for Envisagenics’ continued development of SpliceCore, a cloud-based drug discovery platform that analyzes RNA […]

AUSTIN, Texas — Altogen Biosystems announced the launch of AltoFect, the second generation transfection reagent for primary cell types and hard-to-transfect cell lines. AltoFect transfection reagent exhibits up to 85% transfection efficiency in difficult-to-transfect cells such as T-cells, B-cells, and primary cell cultures. The advance has opened up the path to reliable in vitro testing of realistic responses from […]

BIOTECON Diagnostics` foodproof RoboPrep Fusion® for molecular food and veterinary diagnostics is the perfect combination of a precise liquid handling robot with an attached and highly efficient DNA / RNA extraction system – the KingFisher™ Flex. The pipetting robot does the complete preparation of the sample material and the buffers required for the extraction. The […]

Basel, Switzerland – Today Lonza announced the addition of hepatic stellate cells, Kupffer cells and liver-derived endothelial cells to its extensive hepatocytes portfolio. These hepatic non-parenchymal cells provide scientists with the building blocks to create more physiologically relevant in vitro models, including co-cultures and 3D cell cultures, for enhanced liver disease research. Hepatic non-parenchymal cells are involved in […]

Santa Cruz, CA – SomaGenics announced the launch of RealSeq®-biofluids, a next-generation sequencing (NGS) library construction kit sensitive enough to detect small RNAs from cell-free biofluids. Further enhancing its efforts in the liquid biopsy arena, SomaGenics has received a 3-year Phase II SBIR grant from the NIH for the development of RealSeq®-T, a technology enabling […]