Covalent Metrology Announces Collaboration with EDAX

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 JOIN THE CONVERSATION For Further Information Contact: Sue Arnell, sue.arnell@ametek.com, 201-529-4880 Covalent Metrology Announces Collaboration with EDAX, Inc. Mahwah, NJ, and Sunnyvale, CA – Covalent Metrology, an innovative, new analytical service lab based in Silicon Valley, announced today that it will collaborate with EDAX, Inc., a business unit of AMETEK, Inc., on the... Read more

MilliporeSigma Makes Major Investment in New Singapore Laboratory

Burlington, Massachusetts, September 18, 2018 – MilliporeSigma today announced the opening of a new 3,800-square-meter laboratory in Singapore. 18 SEP 2018 | BURLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA First GMP BioReliance® biosafety testing lab in Asia Pacific offering critical testing services to bring life-changing therapies to market Extensive range of upstream and downstream bioprocessing solutions through M Lab™... Read more

Agilent Files New Complaint Against Twist Bioscience Regarding Stolen Agilent Confidential Documents

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 18, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) filed a new complaint against Twist Bioscience Corp. (“Twist”) and Emily Leproust. The proposed Second Amended Complaint adds two additional defendants (Twist employee Siyuan Chen and former Twist employee Solange Glaize) and adds new facts that were recently discovered regarding the defendants’ wide-ranging theft... Read more

Twist Bioscience Responds to Agilent’s Latest Specious Claims

Download PDF SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 18, 2018 — Twist Bioscience issued the following statement: Agilent’s wholesale shift in its allegations, two and a half years into its suit, reveals only the weakness of its claims. Agilent’s most recent allegations are gamesmanship, not substance. They omit that more than four months before it sought to change its... Read more

SomaGenics’ Strengthens Its IP and Technology Position in Small RNA Analysis and Biomarker Discovery With New Patent and Publication

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — SomaGenics, a biotechnology company focused on developing lowest bias sequencing and highest specificity RT-qPCR technologies for small RNAs, announced today the issue of US Patent 10,041,107, a continuation of SomaGenics’ patent family entitled “Methods and Compositions for Detection of small RNAs.” The new patent broads protection for SomaGenics’ innovative,... Read more

Sphere Fluidics Introduces New Cyto-Mine Studio Software Suite

September 17, 2018 02:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time CAMBRIDGE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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... Read more

Accenture and Merck Collaborate with Amazon Web Services to Launch a Research Platform to Drive Innovation in Drug Discovery and Scientific Research

NEW YORK; Sept. 17, 2018 – Accenture and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), will launch a cloud-based informatics research platform designed to help organizations in the life sciences industry improve productivity, efficiency and innovation in the early stages of drug development. The new research platform,... Read more

IDEX Corporation Named One of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies

September 17, 2018 at 9:00 AM EDT PDF Version LAKE FOREST, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 17, 2018– IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) today announced that the company has been named as one of the nation’s most trustworthy companies. IDEX was one of only 53 large cap companies selected to the annual list of the Most Trustworthy Public Companies in the United States by... Read more

Horizon Discovery Edit-R crRNA libraries adopted by AstraZeneca as part of its functional genomics discovery platform

Location: Cambridge, UK 14/09/2018 AstraZeneca joins Horizon’s Genomics Discovery Initiative CRISPR knockout and activation libraries are a key toolset in early research crRNA libraries are an efficient and convenient platform for gain- and loss-of-function studies Cambridge, UK, 14 September 2018: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon” or “the Company”), a global leader in gene... Read more

Waters Sponsors New Research Centre to Address Global Food and Water Safety Challenges

Facility will serve as amodel for scientific collaboration between industry, government and academia SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 13, 2018– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today opened the doors of the new International Food and Water Research Centre (IFWRC) in Singapore to address the growing challenges of food and water security and safety. Led by a Scientific Advisory Panel, the IFWRC will support scientists throughout the world working... Read more