BIO-TECHNE COMPLETES LUNAPHORE ACQUISITION

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07/10/2023 - 07:00 AM

MINNEAPOLIS, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ:TECH) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Lunaphore Technologies SA, a leading developer of fully automated spatial biology solutions. Bio-Techne and Lunaphore are combining forces to accelerate their spatial biology leadership position in translational and clinical research markets.

Lunaphore's instrument portfolio includes COMET^™, an end-to-end spatial biology platform, with tissue staining, imaging and image preprocessing steps integrated into a fully automated, high-throughput instrument, that delivers true walk-away automation with unmatched scalability, reproducibility, and retention of tissue morphology. Designed for use with standard pathology slides, COMET's superior tissue profiling capabilities enable the analysis of 40 different spatial biomarkers per sample in each automated run, allowing for virtually unlimited plex.

The product portfolio is complemented by SPYRE^™ antibody panel kits and HORIZON^™ image analysis software. Lunaphore also offers LabSat^®, an automated tissue staining instrument that offers a 30-minute turn-around time, delivering a much faster and hands-off staining solution compared to manual methods where turnaround times can take several days.

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