NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Bruker has opened a new Preclinical Imaging Center of Excellence for the Americas at its headquarters in Billerica, Mass.

A team of researchers used genome editing to modify monkeys.

Microbiome research seeks diversity, Ed Yong writes.

Merck says it is ending its chimpanzee-based research.

In Science this week: Neandertal genes in modern humans, and more.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Cepheid said after the close of the market on Thursday that its fourth quarter 2013 revenues increased 23 percent year over year while its profit swung to a net loss.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – PerkinElmer reported after the close of the market Thursday that its fourth quarter revenues increased 4 percent year over year driven by gains for its Human Health segment.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Precision BioSciences and Cellectis announced Thursday that they have settled patent litigation related to genome engineering technology and have agreed to cross-license certain patents.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – PathoGenetix said today that it has tapped Sparton to design and manufacture pre-commercial instruments for its Resolution Microbial Genotyping System for detecting microbial pathogens in food.

As one of its major molecular diagnostics-related revenue sources begins to slow down, Qiagen today outlined its plan to replace it with several new MDx initiatives and other molecular biology-related growth drivers.

Kapa Biosystems, an eight-year-old biotech firm that supplies reagents for PCR, next-generation sequencing, and molecular diagnostics, said this week that it has beefed up its managerial team and more than doubled its global facility investment as it looks to sustain or accelerat

EnviroLogix and Douglas Scientific said today that they have signed a multi-year exclusive distribution agreement pairing EnviroLogix's patent-pending DNAble technology with Douglas Scientific's Array Tape platform.

BioMérieux and Clarient, a GE Healthcare company, said this week that BioMérieux's molecular diagnostic test THxID-BRAF has been added to Clarient's service offerings.

EntroGen this week announced the availability of expanded colorectal cancer screening products.

Kapa Biosystems said this week that it has added four new managers as part of the company's expansion, which included moving and in

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Bayer CropScience said today it has inked two agreements with Cellectis plant sciences that extend a partnership focused on modifying and editing plant genes and genomes to improve crops.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Cancer Institute said today that it has launched a pilot study this month that will assess the clinical utility of treating cancer patients based on known pha

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Stanford University has been awarded $40 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to work with several partners to create a center that will focus on applying genomics approaches and technologies to stem cell science.

NEW YORK(GenomeWeb News) – The University of Perugia's Agostinho Carvalho and colleagues explored the influence that polymorphisms in a gene called PTX3 — known for its role in mediating immune responses to fungi — might have on an individual's risk of developing invasive aspergillosis infections

Researchers herald new method for reprogramming cells.

Early-career scientists may suffer if they chose not to pursue publications in big-name journals.

One of this year's winners of the Japan Prize is Rockefeller University's David Allis.

In Nature this week: Neandertal genes in non-African modern humans, and more.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Thermo Fisher Scientific today reported that its fourth quarter 2013 revenues climbed 6 percent year over year with high- to mid-single digit growth across all three of its reporting segments.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Qiagen said after the close of the market on Wednesday that its fourth quarter revenues increased 5 percent year over year at constant exchange rates.