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January 2017

Biotech Firm Raises $17 Million in Financing Round

January 22, 2017

Adarza BioSystems Inc., a Henrietta-based company, has raised $17 million in its Series C financing round, officials said Friday.  3×5 RiverVest Fund II L.P. is the lead investor for the round. It is co-managed by a joint venture [more...]

Bio-Rad to Acquire RainDance Technologies

January 22, 2017

Bio-Rad Laboratories has agreed to acquire RainDance Technologies for an undisclosed price, the companies said today (Jan 16th 2017).  “The company’s droplet-based solutions will extend our reach into next-generation sequencing [more...]

Multiregional Brain on a Chip

January 22, 2017

Image of the in vitro model showing three distinct regions of the brain connected by axons. (Credit: Disease Biophysics Group/Harvard University) Harvard University researchers have developed a multiregional brain-on-a-chip that models the [more...]

A New Technique Speeds Up Genetics

January 22, 2017

A microfluidics device used for the SMiLE-seq technique. (Credit: Alina Isakova) Scientists at EPFL have developed a technique that can be a game-changer for genetics by making the characterization of DNA-binding proteins much faster, more [more...]

BD Launches Reagents to Simplify Single Cell Research

January 22, 2017

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today (Jan 17th 2017) announced the commercial availability of its new kits that provide an easier method to identify and quantify genetic information [more...]

MIT Researchers Make New Graphene Discovery

January 15, 2017

Graphehe gyroid (Image Credit: Zhao Qin, MIT)   Researchers from MIT have created a new material that is actually stronger than graphene – making it 10 times stronger than steel, with only five percent of its density The research [more...]

3-D Antibody Arrays Offer Better Sensing

January 11, 2017

MIT chemical engineers discovered that they could force antibodies and other proteins to form layers by attaching each protein to a polymer tail. The proteins and polymers repel each other, so the molecules arrange themselves in a [more...]

Illumina Wants to Sequence Your Whole Genome for $100

January 10, 2017

From Admin: Illumina the global leader in next-generation sequencing technology, today introduced the NovaSeqTM Series, a new and scalable sequencing architecture expected one day to enable a $100 genome. Unveiled at the J.P. Morgan [more...]