September 18, 2018 Lab Top-10 Licensing, IP, and Legal

Agilent Files New Complaint Against Twist Bioscience Regarding Stolen Agilent Confidential Documents

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 18, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) filed a new complaint against Twist Bioscience Corp. (“Twist”) and Emily Leproust. The proposed Second Amended Complaint adds two additional defendants (Twist employee Siyuan Chen and former Twist employee Solange Glaize) and adds new facts that were recently discovered regarding the defendants’ wide-ranging theft... Read more

September 18, 2018 Lab Top-10 Licensing, IP, and Legal Life Science Tools

Twist Bioscience Responds to Agilent’s Latest Specious Claims

Download PDF SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 18, 2018 — Twist Bioscience issued the following statement: Agilent’s wholesale shift in its allegations, two and a half years into its suit, reveals only the weakness of its claims. Agilent’s most recent allegations are gamesmanship, not substance. They omit that more than four months before it sought to change its... Read more

September 18, 2018 Lab Top-10 Product Launch

Agilent Files New Complaint Against Twist Bioscience Regarding Stolen Agilent Confidential Documents

Agilent Files New Complaint Against Twist Bioscience Regarding Stolen Agilent Confidential Documents SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 18, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) filed a new complaint against Twist Bioscience Corp. (“Twist”) and Emily Leproust. The proposed Second Amended Complaint adds two additional defendants (Twist employee Siyuan Chen and former Twist employee Solange Glaize) and... Read more

September 18, 2018 Informatics & Software Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

BioBright and Beckman Coulter Announce a Strategic Partnership to Bring Enhanced Technical Support Capabilities to Instruments

September 18, 2018 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time – BOSTON & INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BioBright and Beckman Coulter announce a strategic partnership to bring enhanced technical support capabilities to instruments. BioBright’s DarwinSync platform gives Beckman Coulter access to a large amount of precise data about deployed instrument logs, enabling faster troubleshooting, reduced equipment downtime, and predictive analytics.... Read more

September 18, 2018 Lab Top-10 Licensing, IP, and Legal Life Science Tools

Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands Genome Editing IP Portfolio

New license agreements for CRISPR technology from Broad Institute and ERS Genomics extend industry-leading genome editing capabilities CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, has licensed CRISPR technologies from the Broad Institute and ERS Genomics (foundational University of California IP) to bolster its genome editing... Read more

September 17, 2018 Bio/Pharma/CRO Lab Top-10 Product Launch

New Validated Analytical Workflow for Complex Quantitation of Veterinary Drugs

Thermo Scientific VetDrugs Explorer Collection provides LC-MS/MS-based solution for multi-class veterinary drug residues in sample matrices SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Food scientists can now take advantage of a newly-launched, start-to-finish solution that offers robust, reliable and sensitive analysis of multi-residue veterinary drugs in complex animal-derived sample matrices, helping identify animal and dairy... Read more

September 14, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Molecular Spectroscopy Product Launch

Bruker Introduces New High Performance Preclinical PET/CT Si78 System

SEATTLE, Sept. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Bruker today announced the introduction of the new preclinical PET/CT Si78 scanner for whole-body molecular imaging at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (www.wmis.org/2018-wmic). It combines Bruker’s novel PET and outstanding micro-CT technologies in a single scanner operated by the multi-modality imaging software platform ParaVision™ 360. The PET/CT Si78 is addressing... Read more

September 13, 2018 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Lab Top-10

Waters Sponsors New Research Centre to Address Global Food and Water Safety Challenges

Facility will serve as amodel for scientific collaboration between industry, government and academia SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 13, 2018– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today opened the doors of the new International Food and Water Research Centre (IFWRC) in Singapore to address the growing challenges of food and water security and safety. Led by a Scientific Advisory Panel, the IFWRC will support scientists throughout the world working... Read more

September 13, 2018 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

PerkinElmer’s Employees Participate in Impact Day 2018

Global day of service coincides with 10-year anniversary of Company’s corporate social responsibility program WHAT: Today, PerkinElmer, Inc. will host its third annual Impact Day. Employees from PerkinElmer’s sites around the world will participate in outreach activities that align with the Company’s mission of innovating for a healthier world. Over 2,000 employees in 20 countries will... Read more

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

BD Statement on Divestiture of Advanced Bioprocessing Business

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Sept. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today issued the following statement regarding the sale of its Advanced Bioprocessing business to Thermo Fisher Scientific: “The sale of our Advanced Bioprocessing business will create greater focus for our Life Sciences segment where BD... Read more