Life Sciences

Eight women from around Central Massachusetts have earned the honor this year.

Hologic, a Marlborough medical technology company focused on women’s health, announced last week it is expanding its hysteroscopy offerings.

Precision Optics Corp., Inc., a Gardner-based optical instrument manufacturer, announced its acquisition of Lighthouse Imaging, an optical imaging company located in Maine, in a Tuesday press release.

Roughly 70 acres of land along Lackey Dam Road, and sprawling through Uxbridge, Sutton, and Douglas, have been sold for $5 million to Indianapolis real estate firm Scannell Properties, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

Westborough medical technology firm Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. of Westborough announced on Monday it has named Christopher Joyce as vice president and chief financial officer.

UMass Chan Medical School has elevated its program in systems biology to full department status, according to a Tuesday press release from the school. 

Located adjacent to the Polar Park baseball stadium in Worcester, the planned Left Field Building is a $16-million symbol of the ambitious plans in the city for the life sciences as a catalyst for its ever-evolving development efforts.

Galderma, the world’s largest independent dermatology company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, announced Thursday a co-development and option-to-acquire agreement with Framingham-based medical device firm Sofregen Inc.

Hologic, a Marlborough-based medical technology company focused on women’s health, released findings from its first Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, according to a Tuesday press release.

Akoya Biosciences, a Marlborough bioscience company, has appointed Dr. Myla Lai-Goldman, who has worked extensively in diagnostics and is the chair and co-founder of GeneCentric Therapeutics Inc. of North Carolina, to its board of directors, according to a Wednesday announcement.