New microplates are an extension of TTP Labtech’s consumables portfolio Cambridge, UK: TTP Labtech Ltd, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, today announced the commercial launch of its sol-R™ microplates. The new sol-R consumables range is designed to amplify the productivity gains delivered by […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has launched two new CE-IVD labelled fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) probes, further expanding its extensive lung cancer portfolio. The Cytocell Aquarius® ROS1 Plus Breakapart and RET Breakapart probes* specifically and accurately detect rearrangements in the genome associated with the most common form of lung cancer — […]

The strategic licensing agreement between Lonza and Massachusetts Eye and Ear® underscores Lonza’s position as a leading AAV manufacturing service provider and offers customers unprecedented technology and services to commercialize next-generation gene therapies. The Anc-AAV vector platform has the potential to overcome pre-existing immunity in order to treat more patients compared with other viral vectors […]

Enhancing its existing NATtrol™ Zika Molecular Quality Controls, Inactivated Zika Stock, Culture Fluid and Lysate Product Offerings, ZeptoMetrix is expanding its Zika Catalogue to include 3 additional Zika virus Lysates. Buffalo,NY ZeptoMetrix™ Corporation (ZMC) announced today the release of 3 additional Zika virus Lysates to its product inventory to assist in the rapid development of […]

• Reduces minute virus of mice contamination risk • Enhances viral safety while maintaining cell line productivity, protein quality Darmstadt, Germany — Merck, a leading science and technology company, today launched a first-of-its-kind gene editing technology to modify CHO cell lines to be resistant to minute virus of mice (MVM), a common contamination threat that […]

From IgG in cell culture for HPLC analysis HUDSON, N.H. — S-BIO1 has launched today EZGlycoTM mAb-N Kit with 2-AB, a breakthrough new product that enables scientists to analyze N-glycans in IgG and Fc-fusion proteins from culture supernatant samples in a rapid, simplified and streamlined single tube operation. The kit is a valuable tool supporting […]

Empirical Bioscience has approved the enhanced labeling of their Taq Master Mix line including their FlashTaq HotStart Master Mix and rEVAlution qPCR Master Mix products for storage and use at room temperature (15° to 25°C) for up to 60 days and for extended refrigeration storage at 4°C for up to 180 days. GRAND RAPIDS, MI […]

BrainXell Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) and iPS Academia Japan, Inc. (Kyoto, Japan) have announced a global licensing agreement covering some of iPS Academia Japan’s induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell patent portfolio. BrainXell may now develop and commercialize iPS-derived cells and offer related services to its customers under this non-exclusive agreement. Madison, Wisconsin BrainXell Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) […]

Commitment Supports International Working Group on Antibody Validation Recommendations Published in Nature Methods WALTHAM, Mass.–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today committed to testing the specificity of antibodies in its portfolio in accordance with the newly proposed conceptual pillars for antibody validation, which were published in Nature Methods . The pledge […]

Basel, Switzerland and Aprilia, Italy — IBI-Lorenzini has entered into a partnership with the Swiss contract development and manufacturing organisation, Celonic, to establish high performance cell lines for R&D. Cell line development is one of the most challenging phases, especially when subsequent GMP compliance is required. To boost and support successful commercial introduction of biological […]