licensing agreement

Under the non-exclusive deal, Oxford Nanopore can include the technology, which targets long DNA fragments, in its nanopore sequencing products.

Applied StemCell, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, will develop and sell CRISPR-based services and reagents under a license from ERS Genomics.

The point-of-care test is based on technology developed at the Columbia University Fertility Center for preimplantation genetic testing.

Codefendant 1Cellbio, an instrument maker that had obtained a co-exclusive license to the patents, said it plans to appeal the court's declaration.

Twist will give Takeda access to its phage display libraries to help Takeda discover and validate antibodies needed for the development of new biologics. 

BioSkryb will now have an exclusive global license for clinical applications of primary template directed amplification technology.

The technologies, called non-extensible oligonucleotides and linear DNA assembly, may help the sample prep firm improve existing products.

The company said it is using the technology for synthetic biology, diagnosis of inherited genetic diseases, liquid biopsy, and infectious disease detection.