June 1, 2021 Bio/Pharma/CRO Lab Equipment M&A, Partnerships

Avantor Acquires RIM Bio; Expands Bioproduction Footprint into China

Changzhou, China, operations become Avantor’s first single-use production facility in AMEA region; doubles Avantor’s global single-use cleanroom space Adds proprietary technologies to Avantor’s bioprocessing manufacturing capabilities to meet growing global demand for single-use solutions RADNOR, Pa. and SHANGHAI, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —  Avantor, Inc. (NYSE: AVTR), a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the... Read more

May 11, 2021 Licensing, IP, and Legal Life Science Tools

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US, upholds jury decision to invalidate certain PacBio patents

Tue 11th May 2021 Today the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a unanimous Precedential Opinion and Judgment affirming the jury’s March 2020 verdict in the PacBio v. Oxford Nanopore case, that invalidated a number of PacBio patents.  This has been a long running dispute in which Oxford Nanopore has repeatedly prevailed.  In... Read more

May 10, 2021 M&A, Partnerships Molecular Spectroscopy

Sensirion fully acquires infrared spectrometer specialist IRsweep

10 May 2021, Sensirion Holding AG, 8712 Stäfa, Switzerland Sensirion Holding AG, a leading provider of environmental and flow sensor solutions, completes the acquisition of IRsweep AG, an innovative provider of optical sensing solutions. IRsweep, based in Stäfa, Switzerland, develops, manufactures, and supplies optical spectroscopy solutions based on semiconductor quantum cascade laser (QCL) frequency comb... Read more

May 5, 2021 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Oxford Nanopore provides updated kits and protocols for rapid, scalable and low-cost sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

Wed 5th May 2021 Oxford Nanopore has released new protocols enabling the rapid, cost effective sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19. Research teams are able to access sequencing technology in days, without capital cost, for quick set-up of rapid turnaround SARS-CoV-2 sequencing.  From initial characterisation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome to the rapid identification of variants, researchers have been... Read more

May 4, 2021 Bio/Pharma/CRO Clinical Research/Diagn. Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Bio-Techne and 908 Devices Announce Joint Collaboration

MAY 04, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS and BOSTON, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) and 908 Devices (NASDAQ: MASS) today announced a joint collaboration to develop an extended workflow solution for protein characterization. Bio-Techne, a global life sciences company providing innovative tools and bioactive reagents for the research and clinical diagnostic communities, and owner of the leading ProteinSimple... Read more

May 4, 2021 Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

Beckman Coulter is First Diagnostics Company to Offer Workflow Automation Specifically for Mid-volume Laboratories

Labs processing ~2,000 to 5,000 tests a day can finally enjoy the benefits of Total Laboratory Automation (TLA) with a compact workflow-automation solution that fits needs BREA, CALIF., MAY. 4, 2021 — Beckman Coulter, a clinical diagnostics leader, today announced the global launch of the DxA 5000 Fit, a workflow-automation solution designed to fit into medium-sized labs that... Read more

May 3, 2021 Lab Equipment M&A, Partnerships

BioLife Solutions Announces Closing of Stirling Ultracold Acquisition and Expanded Partnership with Leading Global Biopharma CDMO

BOTHELL, Wash., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS) (“BioLife” or the “Company”), a leading developer and supplier of a portfolio of class-defining bioproduction products and services for cell and gene therapies and the broader biopharma market, today announced that it has closed the previously announced acquisition of Stirling Ultracold (“Stirling”), a privately held manufacturer of ultra-low... Read more

April 29, 2021 Microscopy Product Launch

New Cypher VRS1250 Video-Rate Atomic Force Microscope Enables True Video-Rate Imaging at up to 45 Frames per Second

29 Apr April 27, 2021 (Santa Barbara, CA) Oxford Instruments Asylum Research today announced the launch of the new Cypher VRS1250 video-rate atomic force microscope (AFM). Twice as fast as the first-generation Cypher VRS, the new AFM enables scan rates up to 1250 lines/second and frame rates up to 45 frames/second. This new higher speed... Read more

April 27, 2021 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Bio-Techne Announces Commercial Release of Novel DNAscope In Situ Hybridization Assays for Chromogenic Detection of DNA Copy Number and Structural Variations

APRIL 27, 2021 Pushing the Spatial Genomics Frontier One Biomolecule at a Time from RNA to DNA MINNEAPOLIS, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ:TECH) today announced the expansion of the Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD), a Bio-Techne brand, RNAscope™ technology with release of new DNAscope Assays. The RNAscope technology is an advanced in situ hybridization (ISH)... Read more

April 26, 2021 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

The Carlyle Group to acquire rapidly growing life sciences tools company Unchained Labs

April 26, 2021 – Pleasanton, CA – Global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) today announced that it has agreed to acquire the rapidly growing life sciences tools company Unchained Labs for $435 million, in partnership with its management team, from Novo Holdings A/S, Canaan Partners and TPG Biotech. The transaction is subject to regulatory... Read more