Deals and acquisitions
• Merck moves for Bio-Techne in US$11.3B deal. Merck has agreed to acquire Bio-Techne for US$73 per share in cash, valuing the company at approximately US$11.3 billion. The planned acquisition would add Bio-Techne’s portfolio of life science tools, analytical technologies, consumables, multi-omics, spatial biology, precision diagnostics, and cell and gene therapy workflow capabilities to Merck’s Life Science business.
• Agilent completes Biocare Medical acquisition. Agilent has closed its acquisition of Biocare Medical, expanding its pathology portfolio with immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology solutions, including automated instrumentation, reagents, and simultaneous multiplexing technologies for cancer diagnostics and research. Biocare is now part of Agilent’s Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets Group.
Collaborations and partnerships
• Tecan and NVIDIA bring agentic AI into lab analytics. Tecan has integrated agentic AI capabilities into its Introspect lab analytics platform using the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit. The development is intended to help laboratories move from monitoring and reactive troubleshooting toward proactive workflow optimization, with early access focused on pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and clinical laboratory environments.
• IonOpticks and SCIEX align LC-MS proteomics workflows. IonOpticks and SCIEX have announced a planned reseller and co-marketing agreement that would bring IonOpticks’ Aurora Series XS columns and HeatSync temperature-control ecosystem into SCIEX’s global commercial channels for ZenoTOF 7600, 7600+, and 8600 systems. The companies say the agreement would give proteomics labs a more direct route to integrated LC-MS workflows with improved reproducibility, throughput, and quantitative precision.
• Evosep and Molecular You target standardized multi-omic testing. Evosep and Molecular You have announced a strategic collaboration to support high-throughput, standardized multi-omic testing for personalized biomarker profiling. The partnership will integrate the Evosep Eno system into Molecular You’s proteomics workflow, with the aim of supporting reproducible, CLIA-grade testing across an international partner laboratory network.
Product releases
• Phenomenex strengthens LC column durability. Phenomenex has launched Endrix Long Life LC columns, designed to extend column lifetime and improve method reliability in demanding analytical workflows. The columns are intended to reduce downtime and maintain performance across longer analytical campaigns in pharmaceutical, clinical, forensic, toxicology, environmental, and food testing laboratories.
• Waters targets GLP-1 and LNP separations. Waters has launched BioResolve Peptide and GTxResolve Lipid reversed-phase columns for faster GLP-1 characterization and lipid nanoparticle component analysis. The columns are QC batch-tested for GLP-1 analysis and LNP workflows, with Waters reporting improved speed, resolving power, and sensitivity for structurally similar impurities in peptides, insulin, and lipid-based drug substances.
• Bruker combines TIMS and MRMS for ultra-complex mixtures. Bruker has launched the timsMRMS platform, combining trapped ion mobility spectrometry with magnetic resonance mass spectrometry. Designed for petroleomics, sustainable fuels, and advanced energy storage research, the system offers mass resolution above 10 million, sub-ppm mass accuracy, and isotope fine structure identification to support characterization of highly complex chemical mixtures.
• Waters expands structural and spatial omics capabilities. Waters has introduced the Cyclic IMS P20 mass spectrometer, combining multipass cyclic ion mobility with enhanced fragmentation, probing, and imaging capabilities. The platform offers increased MS/MS sensitivity, an upper mass range above 100 kDa, and integrated MALDI and DESI imaging sources for structural biology, spatial omics, lipidomics, drug localization, and biomarker studies.
• Waters raises benchtop HRMS sensitivity and speed. Waters has also launched the Xevo MRT P10 mass spectrometer, a benchtop high-resolution QToF system for multiomics, bioanalysis, and biopharmaceutical laboratories. The system is designed to improve MS/MS sensitivity, acquisition speed, lipid identification, and spatial analysis throughput when paired with the DESI XS source.
• SCIEX shrinks the triple quad footprint. SCIEX has launched the novus V55 system, a fifth-generation triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with SCIEX OS 5.0 software and AI-enabled tools. The company says the system offers accelerated MRM acquisition, improved sample processing, a 35 percent smaller footprint, 40 percent lower energy consumption, and applications across food, pesticide, pharmaceutical impurity, bioanalysis, and PFAS testing.
• Sartorius connects compliant weighing to the digital lab. Sartorius has launched Cubis III, a new premium lab balance platform designed to send weighing data directly into existing lab systems, including LIMS, ELN, and CDS, without additional middleware. Built-in audit trails, electronic signatures, role-based access controls, LDAP integration, and guided weighing workflows support regulated laboratories facing growing demands around compliance, data governance, validation, and fleet management.
• Evosep standardizes sample-to-separation proteomics. Evosep has launched Evosep Proteomics, a sample-to-separation ecosystem for LC-MS-based proteomics in research and pharmaceutical drug development. The platform combines Evokit sample preparation kits, the Evosep Lupo Sample Preparation System, and Evosep Eno to support reproducible, scalable, AI-ready proteomic workflows.
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