SHS Capital agreed to sell PathoQuest to strategic buyer Charles River Laboratories

Acquisition expands biosafety testing at Charles River

15-Jan-2026 - Healthcare Specialist SHS Capital agreed to sell its portfolio company PathoQuest, a specialist in NGS-based quality control assays for biopharmaceuticals, to the strategic buyer Charles River Laboratories. Founded in Paris, PathoQuest has established itself as a reference player in NGS-based ...

QIAGEN Strengthens QIAstat-Dx With New Barcelona Site

Drive Growth in Infectious Diseases and Precision Medicine Testing

02-Dec-2024 - QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced plans to move its QIAstat-Dx operations within the Barcelona area to a new site in Esplugues de Llobregat as part of a multi-year investment to strengthen this business. Set to open in early 2026, the new site will cover the ...

Roche lays the foundation for the diagnostics production of the future in Germany

Investment of more than 600 million euros in a high-tech production center - Roche's largest single investment in Germany to date

29-Nov-2024 - Roche lays the foundation stone for one of Europe's most modern production centers for high-quality diagnostic input materials on the campus of its biotechnology center in Penzberg, Upper Bavaria. The company is investing more than 600 million euros - Roche's largest single investment in Germany. ...

Mainz Biomed and Thermo Fisher Scientific sign collaboration agreement

Development of next-generation colorectal cancer screening product for global markets

14-Nov-2024 - Mainz Biomed N.V. announced a collaborative agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), through its subsidiary Life Technologies Corporation (“Thermo Fisher”), a world leader in supplying life sciences solutions and services. The collaboration agreement will enable Mainz Biomed and ...

New test improves diagnosis of allergies

Higher diagnostic accuracy than standard tests

21-Oct-2024 - Researchers at the University of Bern and Bern University Hospital have developed a test to simplify the diagnosis of allergies. Its effectiveness has now been confirmed in clinical samples from children and adolescents suffering from a peanut allergy. The results could fundamentally improve the ...

Seasonal temperature impacts patient lab results

14-Dec-2021 - Ambient temperature influences the results of some of the most used laboratory tests, and these distortions likely affect medical decision making, such as whether to prescribe medications, researchers report December 10th in the journal Med. The authors say that laboratories could statistically ...

New financing round at oncgnostics GmbH close

18-Oct-2018 - The life sciences company oncgnostics GmbH was able to double its investment of 750,000 euros following the very rapid and successful completion of its second crowd investing campaign on Seedmatch. A group of private investors invests together with beteiligungsmanagement thüringen GmbH (bm|t) in ...

IIVS Collaborates with BASF and Givaudan to Validate a Non-animal Test for Regulatory Submissions

29-Aug-2018 - The Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS), with an established track record in the validation of alternatives to animal testing, is teaming up with BASF and Givaudan to validate an improved skin sensitization reactivity method to address the needs of toxicologists and regulators. Scientists at ...

Rapid diagnosis of diseases with novel blood test

06-Mar-2018 - Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck, research group leader at the Biotechnology Center of TU Dresden (BIOTEC), together with medical colleagues from the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden and partnering institutes from Dresden (Germany), Cambridge (UK), Glasgow (UK), and Stockholm (Sweden) use a ...

neotiv secures seed funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds

17-Jan-2018 - From basic research straight to a digital medical product: this vision has been turned into reality by neotiv. The team headed by Chief Executive Officer Dr. Chris Rehse and dementia researcher Prof. Emrah Düzel develops user-friendly apps that are able to measure the psychological effects of ...