August 22, 2018 Licensing, IP, and Legal M&A, Partnerships

Takara Bio entered into a licensing agreement relating to Oncolytic Virus "Canerpaturev" with Dong-A ST, South Korea

This article is translated from press release in Japanese for your convenience. Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this news release, other than those based on historical fact, concerning the current plans, prospects, strategies and expectations of the Company and its Group represent forecasts of future results. While such statements are based on the conclusions of management... Read more

August 21, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships Mass Spectrometry

Agena Bioscience Announces Collaboration with PerkinElmer

21 August 2018 Combining LabChip® GX Touch Nucleic Acid Analyzer and MassARRAY® for Optimized Liquid Biopsy Workflow San Diego, CA – Agena Bioscience (Agena) announced today that they have entered into a collaboration with PerkinElmer, incorporating the LabChip® GX Touch™ nucleic acid analyzer for quality assessment and quantitation of DNA in the upfront workflow of Agena’s MassARRAY®system. The... Read more

August 20, 2018 Cell Analysis Tools M&A, Partnerships

IsoPlexis Announces Expansion into Asia Pacific

IsoPlexis expands sales of its single-cell proteomic analysis platform, IsoLight and IsoCode Chip, to the pharmaceutical and life sciences markets in China BRANFORD, Conn., Aug. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — IsoPlexis Corporation (IsoPlexis), a privately held life sciences company at the forefront of single-cell analytics technology, announced today an exclusive agreement with Tekon Biotech, a leading instrumentation distributor, to... Read more

August 20, 2018 M&A, Partnerships

Diagenode Announces Acquisition of Service Provider NXT-Dx to Complement Epigenetics Assay Services

Monday, August 20, 2018 New acquisition rounds out Diagenode’s epigenomics profiling services platform DENVILLE, N.J. AND LIEGE, BELGIUM (PRWEB) AUGUST 16, 2018 Diagenode today announced the acquisition of NXT-Dx, an established epigenetics service provider based in Gent, Belgium. NXT-Dx provides a broad variety of start-to-finish epigenetics services including a number of targeted DNA methylation assays using... Read more

August 20, 2018 M&A, Partnerships

QIAGEN partners with The Scientific Group to expand commercial presence in Africa

Hilden, Germany, and Johannesburg, South Africa, August 20, 2018 – QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the appointment of The Scientific Group, a South Africa-based company and wholly owned subsidiary of Ascendis Medical, as its exclusive commercial partner for Africa, excluding South Africa and the Maghreb. The agreement will raise the profile... Read more

August 17, 2018 Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Agilent Completes Acquisition of Young In Scientific Co. Ltd. Assets

Agilent Completes Acquisition of Young In Scientific Co. Ltd. Assets SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug 17, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the Agilent-related business from Young In Scientific Co. Ltd. and its affiliates (“YI Scientific”). YI Scientific is a leading distributor of analytical and scientific instruments... Read more

August 16, 2018 Life Science Tools Liq. Handling & Robotics M&A, Partnerships

Tecan accelerates broad genomics strategy with the acquisition of NuGEN Technologies

August 16, 2018 Acquisition of US-based NuGEN expands Tecan’s dedicated solutions offering into new market segment of next-generation sequencing (NGS) reagents and increases overall recurring revenues NuGEN provides innovative NGS kits and genomic sample prep reagents for the fastest growing field within the genomics area NuGEN to become part of Tecan’s Life Sciences Business, leveraging Tecan’s... Read more

August 2, 2018 Informatics & Software M&A, Partnerships

Elsevier to Acquire Aries Systems, A Best-in-class Publication Workflow Solutions Provider

New York, August 2, 2018 Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, MA. Aries’ offerings are used by journals, books and other publications for manuscript submission, peer review, production tracking... Read more

August 1, 2018 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev M&A, Partnerships

Neogen acquires water microbiology testing technology

CONTACT: Steven J. Quinlan, Vice President & CFO, Neogen Corporation, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., Aug. 1, 2018 — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has acquired Clarus Labs, Inc. The acquisition provides Neogen products, and greater access to the $400 million global water microbiology testing market. The acquisition includes the patented Colitag™ water test, which... Read more