Oxford UK — ProImmune Ltd., a leader in epitope discovery, immunogenicity and immune monitoring products and services has launched CFSE T cell proliferation assays for immunogenicity risk assessment. The new highly sensitive assays form part of ProImmune’s REVEAL™ Immunogenicity System, a suite of tools used in the design and selection of biological drugs at the […]

Recently the U.S. Government published recommendations for the production of synthetic genes. Those recommendations have been requested by associations like the International Association Synthetic Biology (IASB, www.ia-sb.eu). The fast development in the field of synthetic genes as a powerful tool in modern biotechnology necessitates a control to assure that opportunities can be taken and risks […]

PepScale™ Synthesizer Facilitates Cost-Effective Scale Up New England Peptide (NEP) today announced the introduction of a proprietary peptide synthesis instrument, PepScale™, to better enable peptide scale-up and process development projects for its customers. PepScale™ was designed by NEP’s in-house development team to provide the flexibility required for development work while taking advantage of the process […]

Penn Venture Partners and Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania Invest $1,500,000 in Combined Company SAN MATEO, California — Deltagen, Inc. (Pink Sheets: DGEN), a leading provider of drug discovery and screening tools to the biopharmaceutical industry, today announced that it has acquired Benten BioServices, Inc. (“Benten”). Benten is an emerging Pennsylvania-based contract services organization […]

For the Enhanced Collection and Storage of Preclinical and Clinical Study Samples – Low blood volume, simple and safe processing, room temperature storage Chalfont St. Giles, UK — GE Healthcare announces the launch of FTA® DMPK cards for the collection and storage of blood samples for use in pharmacokinetic and toxicokinetic (PK/TK) studies. This methodology […]

For Rapid, High-throughput Antibody Measurement in Bioprocess Samples MADISON, Wis.–BioSystem Development, LLC., a privately held life science analytics company, announces the release of the AssayMAP MAb Titer Assay for measuring antibody product concentrations (or titers) in bioprocess samples. Antibody titer assays are a critical bottleneck in biotherapeutic process development. Although the current “gold standard” method […]

New money will fund the company’s RNAplus research program and strengthen its human and material resources Strasbourg — Polyplus-transfection, a company specialized in the research, development and commercialization of innovative reagents for the transfer of biomolecules, has completed a new funding round in which it raised EUR 1.2 million . The funding took the form […]

Cisbio Bioassays continues to build GPCR investigation platform; research partner Jean-Philippe Pin awarded prestigious Grand Prix Léon Velluz from French Academy of Sciences Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France — Cisbio Bioassays (www.htrf.com), a member of IBA group and global developer of HTRF® (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, today announced the […]