October 16, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Liq. Handling & Robotics M&A, Partnerships

Bruker Completes Acquisition of Majority Interest in Infectious Disease Molecular Diagnostics Company Hain Lifescience GmbH

– Acquisition expands Bruker’s Microbiology & Diagnostics business with profitable Molecular Diagnostics portfolio and substantial innovation pipeline – Novel Fluorocycler™ XT thermal cycler with high multiplexing real-time PCR capabilities enables proprietary, new Liquid Array™ assay format for affordable syndromic panels – Expanded FluoroType™ MTBDR 2.0 Liquid Array assay provides highly differentiated tuberculosis (TB) detection and... Read more

October 16, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Liq. Handling & Robotics M&A, Partnerships

Bruker Completes Acquisition of Majority Interest in Infectious Disease Molecular Diagnostics Company Hain Lifescience GmbH

BILLERICA, Mass., Oct. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that is has completed the acquisition of an 80% majority interest in Hain Lifescience GmbH, based in Nehren, Germany.  Hain is an infectious disease specialist with a broad range of molecular diagnostics (MDx) solutions for the detection of microbial and viral pathogens, as... Read more

October 15, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. M&A, Partnerships

Roche Diagnostics partners with DASA Group to create the world’s largest integrated core lab* today

Partnership that grows stronger While DASA has experienced unprecedented growth and success with their integrated lab, they don’t plan on slowing down. Alessandro Veiga states, “We haven’t stopped growing. DASA has an expectation to become a global leader in diagnostic medicine throughout the world.” DASA Group’s vision is to be the best company in the... Read more

October 15, 2018 Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships Materials Analysis

Bruker Partners with Greening Testing Laboratories to Provide Benchtop Brake Screening Services

Convenient and Cost-Effective Friction Materials Testing for the Automotive Industry SAN JOSE, CA and DETROIT, MI – October 15, 2018 – Bruker Nano Surfaces today announced a partnership with Greening Testing Laboratories, Inc. of Detroit to provide convenient and cost-effective benchtop friction test and particle screening capabilities to developers of friction materials. Under this partnership, Greening... Read more

October 15, 2018 M&A, Partnerships Molecular Spectroscopy Product Launch

Datacolor® and global software company Inèdit introduce color selection solution for digitally printed textile industry

Lawrenceville, NJ – (October 17, 2018) – Datacolor®, a global leader in color management technology, announced today it has partnered with digital software developer Inèdit Software to introduce a color measurement and selection solution to the digitally printed textile industry. The partnership pairs Datacolor’s professional color matching tool, ColorReaderPRO, with Inèdit’s proven textile design software neoCatalog,... Read more

October 15, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Informatics & Software M&A, Partnerships

Microsoft Genomics ventures into the microbiome with Eagle Genomics

October 15, 2018 Cambridge technology innovators partner with Microsoft Genomics Microbiomic research into immune disorders and antibiotic resistance First microbiome partnership for Microsoft LONDON — October 2018 — The data scientists and developers behind a ground-breaking microbiome data platform, today, announced their partnership with Microsoft Genomics, a Microsoft Azure service dedicated to meeting the computational... Read more

October 12, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. M&A, Partnerships

Bio-Techne Signs Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Micropoint Bioscience

OCTOBER 12, 2018 MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Micropoint Bioscience of Shenzhen, China. Chuck Kummeth, President and CEO of Bio-Techne, Yan Pingyi, Chairman of Micropoint Bioscience, and Wang Bin, Executive Vice President, Shenzhen Association of Medical Devices, all attended the meeting and signing ceremony. Micropoint... Read more

October 11, 2018 M&A, Partnerships

US Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Forensic Sciences Selects JEOL Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Illicit Drug Testing

October 11, 2018 (Peabody, MA) — JEOL announces that it has been awarded a major contract by the US DEA Office of Forensic Sciences for nine JEOL JNM-ECZ500R Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (500 MHz NMR) spectrometers.  The purchase was made through a competitive award process and will allow DEA laboratories across the country to utilize the... Read more

October 9, 2018 Licensing, IP, and Legal M&A, Partnerships

European Society of Radiology and GE Healthcare announce exclusive artificial intelligence partnership for ECR 2019

Vienna, Austria – October 9th, 2018 – The European Society of Radiology (ESR) and GE Healthcare are partnering on artificial intelligence (AI) for the upcoming European Congress of Radiology (ECR) on February 27-March 3, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. The partnership includes joint sessions on artificial intelligence and a 300 m² dedicated space on GE Healthcare’s 850... Read more

October 4, 2018 Informatics & Software Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Fluidigm Announces Agreement with DNA Software to Offer Secondary CNV Analysis for Biomark HD

PDF Version Combining high-performance automated microfluidics with easy-to-use software to streamline CNV detection for translational and clinical research SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with DNA Software, Inc. to provide CopyCount-CNV™ software for use with the Fluidigm Biomark™ HD system. Copy number variation... Read more