Hilden, Germany, and London, United Kingdom, February 4, 2019 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Genomics England have selected QIAGEN’s QCI (QIAGEN Clinical Insights) portfolio offering on behalf of the NHS in England to support the UK’s program to sequence, analysis and interpret 5 million genomes over the next 5... Read more
Dubai, UAE; January 29, 2019: On the sidelines of Arab Health 2019, the region’s leading healthcare exhibition, GE Healthcare and The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) in Karachi, Pakistan, today announced a strategic partnership to give Pakistan’s leading private quaternary care hospital access to a new range of advanced medical imaging and diagnostic equipment. GE... Read more
Göttingen, Germany – January 31, 2019: Sartorius, a leading international partner of biopharmaceutical research and the industry, is pleased to announce that it has joined NIIMBL, the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals headquartered in Newark, Delaware, USA. The Institute, launched in 2017, is a public-private partnership and has an extensive network of academic and... Read more
(INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – January 30, 2019) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences today announced its acquisition of Labcyte, a privately held, acoustic liquid handling company based in San Jose, California. Labcyte is best known for its Echo® acoustic droplet ejection technology, which uses sound waves to transfer tiny amounts of liquid with unequalled speed and accuracy. This technology—the centerpiece... Read more
Milwaukee – January 30, 2019 – GE Healthcare has announced today a collaboration with UltrasoundPodcast.com, a weekly podcast and website devoted to Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) education and hosted by Drs. Jacob Avila, Matt Dawson and Mike Mallin. The three physician hosts also produce two POCUS conferences annually, called “BendFest” and “CastleFest,” which convene POCUS... Read more
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Anatomical Pathology business to PHC Holdings Corporation, a global innovator in healthcare solutions, for approximately $1.14 billion in cash. The Anatomical Pathology business is a... Read more
London and Cambridge, UK, 28 January 2019: Abcam plc, a global innovator in life science reagents and tools, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Calico Biolabs, a developer of custom high-quality recombinant rabbit monoclonal antibodies for diagnostics and pharmaceutical company partners. Joyce Young, Vice President of Custom Services, Abcam commented:“This acquisition strategically expands our leadership... Read more
28 January 2019 Augmenting the Technology of Particle Characterization Instruments HORIBA, Ltd. (Head Office: Kyoto, Japan; hereinafter, “HORIBA”) has announced that HORIBA Instruments Incorporated (Head Office: Irvine, USA; hereinafter, “HORIBA Instruments”) acquired all shares of MANTA Instruments, Inc. (Head Office: San Diego, USA; hereinafter, “MANTA”) on January 24, 2019. MANTA has earned a high reputation... Read more
Powerful Single Cell Bioinformatics Solution in a Graphical User Interface Powerful Single Cell Bioinformatics Solution in a Graphical User Interface ST. LOUIS & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–1CellBio Inc. and Partek Incorporated have partnered to deliver a data analysis pipeline for the inDrop™ System for use within Partek® Flow® bioinformatics software. The pipeline allows users to pre-process raw inDrop single cell RNA-Seq data and utilize... Read more
Safe Water Project Will Benefit Over 5,000 Children in Bangalore, India Campaign Success Tops Record Year for Xylem’s Corporate Citizenship Program RYE BROOK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 24, 2019– Xylem (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company, announced that the Safe Water project it is supporting in Bangalore, India, garnered more than 450,000 votes from players, partners... Read more