Abbott recently said that its Diagnostics business revenues grew 47 percent year over year in the second quarter, driven by sales in its rapid diagnostics business, which reflect results for Alere acquired in October 2017. On an organic bas... Read More >

Xiamen Spacegen, a provider of oncology molecular diagnostics products and services in China, said recentlythat it hadreceived CE marking for six testing kits. These kits include a human thyroid carcinoma RET gene fusions detection kit, whic... Read More >

Recently, Agilent Technologies announced that it has completed the acquisition of ULTRA Scientifics business assets, a supplier of chemical standards and certified reference materials. Agilent identifies chemical standards as a key enabling... Read More >

Illumina said after the close of the market recently that it intends to offer approximately $650 million of convertible senior notes due 2023. Illumina also intends to grant the initial purchasers a 30-day optionto purchase up to an addition... Read More >

Finnish consumer genetic testing firm Negen has turned to BC Platforms for analysis of raw genomic data for clinical reporting purposes, the companies announced recently. Under terms of the new partnership, BC Platforms will run data collect... Read More >

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) Bruker said on Thursday that it has acquired Berlin-based JPK Instruments for an undisclosed amount. JPK provides microscopy instrumentation for biomolecular and cellular imaging, as well as force measurements on single... Read More >

Illumina reported after the close of the market on Monday that its second quarter 2018 revenues rose by 25 percent year over year. The San Diego-based genomics technology company reported total Q2 revenues of $830 million, compared to $662 m... Read More >

PerkinElmer reported after the close of the market on Wednesday that its second quarter revenues grew 29 percent year over year as the company beat analyst estimates on the top and bottom lines. For the three months ended July 1, 2018, Perki... Read More >

IDEX Health Science, LLC (IHS) today 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 cooled CCD a... Read More >

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) Shanghai, China-based cancer precision medicine company OrigiMed said today it will collaborate with Illumina to develop oncology assays. The firms will develop the new assays on Illuminas next-generation sequencing inst... Read More >