CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Gen9, Inc., a pioneer in the development of scalable technologies for synthesizing genes, today announced the appointment of Kevin Munnelly as President and Chief Executive Officer. The company also announced the appointment of Martin Goldberg, Ph.D., as Chief Operating Officer. Gen9 has developed a unique technology to synthesize DNA constructs and has […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its newly appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, Cristina Amorim, has been named Sustainability Executive of the Year at the Ethical Corporation’s annual Responsible Business Forum awards ceremony. She received the honor in recognition for her strategic role in Life’s emergence as a Corporate Social Responsibility […]

Basel, Switzerland, – Lonza, a world leader in gene expression and biopharmaceutical development of protein therapeutics, announced today the launch of the new GS Xceed™ Gene Expression System. This is the latest generation of Lonza’s world renowned GS System™, which has already been used to create over 100 high producing cell lines and 13 therapeutic […]

Oxford, UK, — AbD Serotec, a leader in antibody products for veterinary research, has today announced that it has launched bovine and ovine Dendritic Cell Growth Kits and a complementary panel of antibodies for dendritic cell phenotyping. The Dendritic Cell Growth Kits have been developed to improve dendritic cell (DC) generation, by enabling researchers to […]

ROCKFORD, Ill.– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific Pierce Scholarship Program to help provide educational opportunities for future generations of scientists. “This scholarship program will help both undergraduate and graduate students who are studying a life science discipline,” said Jeff Lee, commercial director for Thermo […]

Cambridge, UK,- Horizon Discovery Ltd (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Bayer Pharma AG (Bayer) to develop preclinical cell line models that will support Bayer’s oncology research and development programs, using Horizon’s precision genome editing technology, GENESIS™. The […]

MANASSAS, Va., — Mediatech Inc., a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), announced today the introduction of hybriGRO SF™, which enhances the performance of monoclonal antibody-producing hybridoma cells. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) derived from hybridoma cells (cells formed from the fusion of antibody-producing B-cells with myeloma cells) are used extensively in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of […]

Genovis is seeing a steady increase in orders and a strong interest in its recently launched products. To optimize these opportunities Susanne Olauson was hired as sales manager. Susanne, 42, has a degree in business with an international background. Over the past fifteen years she has been active in life science, including both the pharmaceutical […]

Lawrence, MA – Charm Sciences, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO-T&V, Belgium) released, on June 28, their report validating Charm Sciences’ beta-lactam and tetracycline 2-minute test (MRLBLTET2) as appropriate for use as a screening test at dairies and farms for all types of raw commingled milk. Results […]

Goettingen, Germany, — NIZO food research has developed and successfully used in different projects newly constructed secretion vectors for the Gram-positive gene expression system NICE®. This expression system is making use of the dairy bacterium Lactococcus lactis and its regulation mechanism for the production of the antibiotic peptide nisin, the NIsin Controlled gene Expression system […]