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Philadelphia-Based Life Science Instrumentation Company Halo Labs Secures $5.6 Million

January 8, 2019

Halo Labs, a Philadelphia-based life science instrumentation company that is developing tools for biologics researchers, announced it has raised $5.6 million in Series B funding led by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT). BroadOak [more...]

10x Genomics Raises $35M in Series D Round Extension

January 8, 2019

10x Genomics has raised $35 million in an extension of its Series D financing, the company said today. The round was led by Meritech Capital, with participation from Fidelity and Wells Fargo, and brings the company’s total financing [more...]

Single-Cell Sequencing Startup Mission Bio Raises $30 Million

December 27, 2018

Mission Bio, a startup that’s developed a single-cell sequencing platform, announced Thursday that it’s raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. The South San Francisco-based company’s machine and software, called the [more...]

Roche teams up with Alcyone LifeSciences in Precision Drug Delivery

December 25, 2018

Roche (OTCQX:RHHBY) will collaborate with privately held Alcyone Lifesciences in precision drug delivery aimed at optimizing intrathecal (injected into the spinal canal) therapies and developing antisense oligonucleotide treatments for [more...]

1DROP Raises $4.25 Million to Develop Next-Generation Portable Medical Diagnostics

November 30, 2018

1DROP, a life science company developing and commercializing an easy to use, laboratory quality, portable medical diagnostic testing platform, today announced the successful closing of a $4.25 million Series A equity financing [more...]

NSF Grant Supports Center to Develop Microfluidics-based Solutions

November 26, 2018

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $500,000, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics. The center, also known by its [more...]

ACEA Biosciences to be Acquired by Agilent Technologies

September 30, 2018

ACEA Biosciences is a company known for developing highly innovative products, which are used in academia, as well as the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. In recent years, the ACEA xCELLigence® RTCA technology has blazed a trail in [more...]

Cell Microsystems, UNC HIV Cure Center Win $283K NIH Grant to Develop HIV Reservoir Assay

September 10, 2018

Isolate and recover single cells for molecular analysis or the generation of clonal populations (Image credit: Cell Microsystems) Cell Microsystems and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill HIV Cure Center said this week that [more...]

Driving Innovation With Glass Wafers in MEMS and Consumer Electronics

August 25, 2018

Microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS) are systems that use both mechanical and electrical components, or small integrated devices. MEMS are critical components in nearly every industry. With the global consumer electronics market [more...]

Top 10 Medical Devices Companies 2018

August 25, 2018

Medical devices industry is a crucial and fast growing arm of the life sciences industry. Medical devices companies produce a wide array of products such as diagnostics, surgical instruments, wheelchairs and cardiac devices which are used [more...]

Intabio Awarded $2.3 Million SBIR Fast Track Grant to Support Commercial Development of a Novel Microchip-based Solution for Biopharmaceutical Analysis

August 25, 2018

NEWARK, Calif., Aug. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Intabio, Inc., announced today the receipt of a Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the [more...]

Namocell Signs Distribution Deal for Single Cell Dispenser in Japan

July 28, 2018

Namocell announced today that it has signed an agreement with Tomy Digital Biology to distribute Namocell’s Namo Single Cell Dispenser in Japan. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. Namocell’s microfluidic-based cell [more...]

IDEX Health & Science Acquired Finger Lakes Instrumentation

July 28, 2018

IDEX Health & Science, LLC (IH&S) announced the acquisition of Lima, NY based Finger Lakes Instrumentation, LLC (FLI). Finger Lakes Instrumentation is a technology leader in the design, development and production of low-noise [more...]

Argonaut Manufacturing Services acquires lyophilization expert LyoGen

July 13, 2018

Argonaut Manufacturing Services, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) serving molecular diagnostic and biopharmaceutical companies, today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire LyoGen LLC. Terms [more...]

Zoetis to Acquire Abaxis, a Leading Global Provider of Veterinary Point-of-Care Diagnostic Instruments

July 13, 2018

–Zoetis Inc. (NYSE:ZTS) and Abaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABAX) today announced a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Zoetis will acquire Abaxis, a leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of diagnostic instruments for [more...]

FDA Approves Latest Generation Somatic Cell Counting Tests for Raw Milk

July 5, 2018

Three FOSS instruments have been approved for official use by NCIMS/FDA in the USA: Fossomatic 7 for testing total somatic cell count in raw milk Fossomatic 7 DC for testing of total somatic cell count in raw milk BacSomatic for [more...]

IARPA Awards Draper Multi-Year $7.8 Million Contract to Improve Biodetection Security

July 5, 2018

Draper has been awarded a three-and-a-half-year $7.8 million contract by IARPA (The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, National Intelligence Directorate) as part of the FELIX Program to research and develop tools to enable [more...]

Sensera’s MEMS Devices Mimic Human Organs

June 10, 2018

Sensera is adapting its MEMS technology for new applications in bioengineering. The company’s MEMS technology is now being used at Harvard University for the creation of microfluidic devices which mimic the functionsof living [more...]

Precision NanoSystems raises US$6 Million to Accelerate Product Innovation and Global Expansion

June 10, 2018

Precision NanoSystems (PNI) today announced that it has closed a US$6M Series B investment. The funds will be used to expand PNI’s products and services globally and to provide a clinical manufacturing solution targeted at [more...]

Interview with Vortex Biosciences’ Microfluidic Technology

June 10, 2018

Personalized medicine is a term we’ve heard for years. The ability to tailor a patient’s treatment type and dosage to obtain the best response is a holy grail for cancer researchers and clinicians. To this end, new technologies are in [more...]