BGI Partners With NRGene to Provide a Full Suite of Breeding Tools for the Chinese Market

Collaboration assures BGI’s and NRGene’s commitment to provide the most advanced technological breeding tools the Asian market June 6, 2019, Ness Ziona, Israel and Shenzhen, China BGI, the world’s largest omics organization, announced today that it will be offering NRGene’s technology as part of its broad genomics analysis services in agriculture research. BGI supports genomic... Read more

NRGene Introduces New Product to Provide Whole Genome Assembly at Significantly Lower Cost

New product offers complete genome coverage and high accuracy for Denovo assembling reference level genomes at a much lower cost to accelerate agricultural research NESS ZIONA, Israel, and SAN DIEGO, June 6, 2019 — NRGene, a worldwide leader in genomic analysis for research and agricultural breeding, announced today the launch of DeNovoMAX – a new product that aims... Read more

Slim LED Transmitted Light Illumination Base with Turret System and LED Light Source Expand Observation and Contrast Options for SZX2/SZ2/MVX10 Microscopes

June 05, 2019 Enhance Imaging with Nine Observation and Contrast Combinations and Improve Color and Brightness Users of Olympus’ SZX2 and SZ2 series stereo microscopes and the MVX10 fluorescence microscope can expand their observation capabilities thanks to a new slim 41.5mm (1.6 in.)LED transmitted light illumination base. The base contains an easy-to-use turret system that... Read more

Teledyne to Acquire the Gas and Flame Detection Business of 3M

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – June 5, 2019 – Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyne”) announced today that it has submitted a binding offer for Teledyne to acquire the gas and flame detection business of 3M for $230 million in cash. The gas and flame detection business includes Oldham, Simtronics, Gas Measurement Instruments (GMI), Detcon and select... Read more

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Opens Application Phase for Next Accelerator

05 JUN 2019 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Start-ups can apply for programs at company headquarters in Darmstadt or in China Focus is on four fields: biosensing & interfaces, liquid biopsy technologies, clean meat, and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled health solutions Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today announced that that it has opened the next... Read more

Oncology Researcher Andrew Quong Joins Fluidigm as Chief Science Officer

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced that Andrew Quong, PhD, has joined the company as its first-ever Chief Science Officer.  Quong will lead the company’s strategy for the generation of bold scientific insights in immunology, immuno-oncology and other frontiers of human health based on Fluidigm® technology. He will develop and integrate Fluidigm’s science... Read more

Cofactor Joins FNIH Biomarkers Consortium to Add Predictive Immune Modeling Expertise as New Resource for Multidimensional Biomarker Discovery

— Contributing to both the Cancer and Inflammation and Immunity Steering Committees —SAN FRANCISCO, June. 4, 2019 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Cofactor Genomics, pioneers in the field of Predictive Immune Modeling, announced today that they have become a member of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Biomarkers Consortium with the goal of advancing... Read more

Bio-Techne to Acquire B-MoGen Biotechnologies Inc.

JUNE 04, 2019 MINNEAPOLIS, June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) announced today it has reached agreement to acquire all of the stock of B-MoGen Biotechnologies Inc. The transaction has been completed and is being financed through available cash on hand. “We are very pleased to include the B-MoGen technology in Bio-Techne’s expanding portfolio... Read more

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Acquires Cytobank

(INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – June 4, 2019) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences today announced its acquisition of Cytobank, a privately held, single cell data analysis, software as a service (SaaS) company based in Santa Clara, California.  Cytobank provides an industry-leading, cloud and machine learning-based software platform for multi-parametric single-cell data analysis, sharing and archiving. The platform accelerates research... Read more