March 16, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. M&A, Partnerships

Horizon Discovery and Genewell Biotechnology enter into partnership for distribution of diagnostic reference standards for the Chinese market

Location: Cambridge 16/03/2018 Partnership immediately provides Horizon with deeper access to Chinese diagnostic assay manufacturers and potential OEM agreements as part of stated global leadership strategy Genewell to pursue CFDA approval of Horizon reference standards for broad distribution into Chinese clinical laboratory market Cambridge, UK, and Shenzhen, China, 16 March 2018: Horizon Discovery Group plc... Read more

March 15, 2018 Informatics & Software Licensing, IP, and Legal M&A, Partnerships

New Agreements Underscore QIAGEN’s Leadership in Bioinformatics

HILDEN, Germany and AARHUS, Denmark, February 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced new partnerships to enhance the profile and expand the use of its market leading bioinformatics solutions for microbiome, metagenomics and other applications. QIAGEN Bioinformatics signed an agreement with genomics big data company CosmosID, Inc. to... Read more

March 15, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin Joins Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Next-Generation Sequencing Center of Excellence Program

Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin Joins Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Next-Generation Sequencing Center of Excellence Program Leading oncology research hospital becomes new member to advance Oncomine™ liquid biopsy and immuno-oncology diagnostics BERLIN and CARLSBAD, Calif., March 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific has named Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin as the newest member of its Next Generation Sequencing... Read more

March 12, 2018 M&A, Partnerships Microscopy Uncategorized

KAUST – Leica Microsystems Center of Excellence (CoE) Inaugurated

State-of-the-art facility features the first imaging system of its kind in Saudi Arabia Wetzlar, Germany/Thuwal, Saudi Arabia: The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Leica Microsystems inaugurated a new Center of Excellence (CoE) for Optical Microscopy on the University’s campus today. With the new center, KAUST and Leica Microsystems embark on a... Read more

March 12, 2018 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships Microscopy

QIAGEN and Natera partner to develop cutting-edge genetic testing assays for use on QIAGEN’s GeneReader NGS System

Hilden, Germany, and San Carlos, CA, March 12, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA), a world leader in providing Sample to Insight molecular solutions, and Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a leading developer of next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays that include non-invasive prenatal genetic testing and the analysis of circulating tumor DNA, today... Read more

March 12, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

QIAGEN and Natera partner to develop cutting-edge genetic testing assays for use on QIAGEN’s GeneReader NGS System

MAR 12 2018 Hilden, Germany, and San Carlos, CA, March 12, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA), a world leader in providing Sample to Insight molecular solutions, and Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a leading developer of next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays that include non-invasive prenatal genetic testing and the analysis of circulating tumor... Read more

March 9, 2018 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Danaher to Acquire Integrated DNA Technologies

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) (the “Company”) and Integrated DNA Technologies (“IDT”) announced today that Danaher has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IDT, a privately-held provider of high-value consumables for genomics applications in molecular biology, qPCR, next generation sequencing, synthetic biology, gene editing and molecular diagnostics.  IDT’s primary... Read more

March 7, 2018 Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Agilent Technologies to Acquire Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc.

Agilent Technologies to Acquire Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc. SANTA CLARA, Calif., Mar. 7, 2018 Highlights: Acquisition advances Agilent’s growth strategy Highly attractive business with robust growth track record and prospects Combination strengthens customer value proposition with complementary technologies and solutions Opportunity to accelerate expansion into adjacent businesses Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that... Read more

March 7, 2018 Informatics & Software Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

WuXi NextCODE Unveils Genomics Partnership with Google Cloud

– WuXi NextCODE’s massively scalable genomics database management system and clinical and research applications will be available to Google Cloud Platform users – Google Cloud BigQuery, the open source DeepVariant and other tools will be integrated for use with the WuXi NextCODE platform – The companies plan to work on additional tools, capabilities and APIs... Read more

March 5, 2018 Bio/Pharma/CRO Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

MilliporeSigma and Schneider Electric Sign MoU to Advance China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry

MilliporeSigma and Schneider Electric combine capabilities to automate biopharmaceutical process Customers would save time, get greater flexibility with automated solution Shanghai, China, March 5, 2018 — MilliporeSigma, a leading science and technology company, and Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that aims to automate... Read more