June 12, 2019 Acad, Gov/Utilities Bio/Pharma/CRO Informatics & Software M&A, Partnerships

Dassault Systèmes and Medidata Solutions To Join Forces To Accelerate the Life Sciences Industry Innovation for Patient-Centric Experience Through End-to-End Collaborative Platform

Medidata Solutions’ market-leading clinical cloud solutions are used by 1,300 customers worldwide to develop their therapeutic innovations and clinical operations performance •Scientific modeling, simulation and digital assets of worldwide trials knowledge and know-how combine to accelerate developments in personalized health, for the benefit of the patient •Life Sciences industry will also benefit from the platform effect spanning... Read more

June 12, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Saphetor SA and Swift Biosciences Announce Partnership to Standardize and Accelerate Data Interpretation for Targeted NGS Panels

Lausanne, June 12th, 2019 Saphetor SA, a Swiss precision medicine company and the creator of VarSome, a suite of bioinformatics solutions, announced today a partnership with Swift Biosciences Inc., a Michigan company based in Ann Arbor, USA, offering a set of differentiated next-generation sequencing (NGS) products and technologies for genomics, translational, and clinical research applications.... Read more

June 11, 2019 Lab Equipment Product Launch

KNF Announces New NPK 012 Swing-Piston Pump

06-11-2019 Economical, compact and lightweight vacuum/pressure pump for portable devices – the NPK 012. As a partner to equipment manufacturers, KNF introduces a new oil-free swing-piston pump that addresses the demand for a more compact, high performance, and economical solution for portable devices At 103 mm in length, the new NPK 012 is 30% shorter... Read more

June 11, 2019 Microscopy

Konica Minolta to Accelerate Manufacturing Reforms by Combining IoT Technology with the Capabilities of Employees at Manufacturing Sites and Encourage Open Innovation in Cooperation with Suppliers

Joining the Smart Industrial Centre Project in Malaysia Tokyo (June 11, 2019) – Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has been promoting workflow reforms for production facilities under its digital manufacturing initiatives towards the goal of establishing production systems that are independent of people, place, country and fluctuations. As part of its efforts to achieve this goal... Read more

June 11, 2019 Industrial M&A, Partnerships Molecular Spectroscopy

Datacolor® collaborates with Adobe to launch new innovative solution for textile industry

Lawrenceville, NJ – (June 11, 2019) – Datacolor®, a global leader in color management technology, announced today a collaboration with Adobe to launch a set of innovative tools to help streamline the process of digitally designing prints for fabrics. The collaboration pairs Datacolor’s professional color lookup tool, ColorReaderPRO, with Adobe’s newest plugin for Adobe Photoshop: Adobe... Read more

June 6, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Konica Minolta to Join Global Oncogenic Gene Panel Research

Move Strengthens Konica Minolta’s Advance into Personalized Medicine in Japan with Next-Generation Screening Capabilities Tokyo (June 6, 2019) – Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announces agreement with the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and the National Cancer Center Japan (NCC) to research and develop the next generation Todai OncoPanel (TOP) , a world-leading oncogenic panel test.... Read more

June 6, 2019 Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Rigaku and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Form Partnership to Develop Novel Molecular Structure Analysis Technology

Rigaku and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, are collaborating to develop commercially available lab solutions employing highly innovative crystalline sponge technology Rigaku will continue to improve its X-ray systems to accommodate the consumables of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, to provide turn-key solutions for customers Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will develop lab consumables to determine the absolute... Read more

June 6, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. M&A, Partnerships

bioMérieux increases its holding in Hybiome from 54% to 67%

06 June, 2019 bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today announced an increase of its shareholding in Suzhou Hybiome Biomedical Engineering Co. Ltd. This announcement follows the earlier announcement of the acquisition of a majority stake in this company in November 2018. Founded in 2009 and located in Suzhou (China), Hybiome is specialized... Read more

June 6, 2019 Atomic Spectroscopy Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships Materials Analysis

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Rigaku Form Partnership to Develop Novel Molecular Structure Analysis Technology

06 JUN 2019 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Rigaku are collaborating to develop commercially available lab solutions employing highly innovative crystalline sponge technology Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will develop lab consumables to determine the absolute chemical structure of substances on sub-microgram scale Rigaku will continue to improve its X-ray systems to accommodate the lab... Read more