Illumina Files Patent Infringement Suits Against BGI in Sweden and the United Kingdom

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it has filed two additional patent infringement suits relating to BGI’s sequencing products, including the DNBSeq-400 (also known as MGISeq-2000), DNBSeq-T7, and related chemistry reagents. The first complaint was filed against MGI Tech Co., Ltd. and Latvia MGI Tech SIA in the High Court of Justice,... Read more

Brooks to Participate in the 22nd Annual Needham Growth Conference

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) announced today that company management will participate in the 22nd Annual Needham Growth Conference at the Lotte New York Palace hotel.  Lindon Robertson, EVP and CFO, will be presenting on Tuesday, January 14th at 11:20 a.m. EST.  The 40-minute session will be webcast live via... Read more

Roche enters licensing agreement with Sarepta Therapeutics to improve the lives of patients living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Roche obtains the exclusive right to launch and commercialize SRP-9001, Sarepta’s investigational micro-dystrophin gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) outside the United States At closing, Roche will pay an upfront of $750million in cash and $400million worth in equity Sarepta is eligible to receive up to $1.7billion in regulatory and sales milestones, plus royalties... Read more

Bruker Introduces Dedicated Light-Sheet Microscope for Highly Multiplexed 3D Cell Culture Live Imaging

Luxendo TruLive3D Imager Enables Rapid Imaging of Cells and Organoids in Their Natural Environments WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — At the 2019 joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Bruker (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced the launch of the Luxendo TruLive3D Imager light-sheet imaging system. The new... Read more

Affidea and GE Healthcare sign a $100 million technology partnership agreement for innovative imaging fleet, digital workflow solutions and contrast media

Buc, France – December 2, 2019 – GE Healthcare and Affidea, the pan-European leader in advanced diagnostic imaging, outpatient and cancer care services, have signed a multi-year agreement to deploy imaging and digital technologies across the Affidea network. GE Healthcare will install 200+ new equipment in Affidea’s network of centers across Europe. The deal includes the... Read more

Agilent Receives Multiple Life Science Industry Awards for Innovation

Agilent Receives Multiple Life Science Industry Awards for Innovation Recognizing innovation and excellence in the life science industry SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 26, 2019 Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today that it has received two Life Science Industry Awards (LSIA) for ‘Most Innovative New Products in 2019’ from BioInformatics Inc. Since 2002, the LSIA... Read more

Luminex Corporation to Present at the Piper Jaffray 31st Annual Healthcare Conference on December 4, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that Harriss Currie, Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO, will participate in investor meetings and present at the Piper Jaffray 31st Annual Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 in New York, NY. A live webcast of Luminex’s presentation will be available... Read more

Brooks to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Nov. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) announced today that company management will participate in two upcoming investor conferences: Credit Suisse 23rd Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on December 3, 2019 with a webcast beginning at 2:20 p.m. MST (4:20 p.m. EST).  Evercore ISI 2nd Annual HealthCONx Conference in Boston, MA... Read more

QIAGEN and LabCorp deepen relationship with widespread use of bioinformatics solutions

Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, November 20, 2019 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced an agreement with LabCorp® (NYSE: LH) to extend their current QIAGEN Clinical Insights (QCI) license with QIAGEN’s Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) of human genetic variants, the world’s largest database of inherited disease mutations. This agreement... Read more

MilliporeSigma Licenses CRISPR Gene-Editing Technology to Evotec

License to accelerate research, enable testing and development of new drugs Burlington, Massachusetts, November 12, 2019 — MilliporeSigma today announced that it has signed a license agreement providing Evotec SE access to MilliporeSigma’s foundational CRISPR intellectual property. Evotec, an international biotechnology company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, will use MilliporeSigma’s CRISPR genome-editing technology to create edited cell lines for Evotec’s... Read more