Mississauga, ON — Therapure Biopharma Inc. and Upfront Chromatography A/S have announced today that they have entered into an agreement for Therapure to acquire the assets and associated business related to human plasma fractionation from Upfront. Upfront has developed over the last 15 years, a proprietary protein purification technology, based on Expanded Bed Adsorption (EBA) […]

CHALFONT ST GILES, UK and HSINCHU, TAIWAN –– GE Healthcare Life Sciences, (NYSE: GE), and JHL Biotech today announced that GE Healthcare has completed installation of its FlexFactory™ biomanufacturing platform at JHL Biotech’s Research Center and manufacturing plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The new manufacturing platform will follow current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) and be fully […]

Ready-to-go straight from the box, ÄKTA™* start is a compact, affordable protein purification system. ÄKTA start represents a quick and reliable solution that removes the hassles of manual approaches and provides automated control of the purification procedure. ÄKTA start is designed as a stand-alone system that combines a front-facing flow path with a user-friendly interface. […]

WALTHAM, Mass.– PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the appointment of Jon DiVincenzo as President, Environmental Health and Senior Vice President of PerkinElmer. In this role, Mr. DiVincenzo will have overall leadership responsibility for the Environmental Health business. With revenues […]

WALTHAM, MA –– Repligen Corporation today announced that it has elected to its Board of Directors John G. Cox, Executive Vice President of Pharmaceutical Operations & Technology for Biogen Idec Inc., a leading biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Cox has over 20 years of biopharmaceutical manufacturing experience and has supported the commercial launches of a number of […]

RUNCORN, UK – In efforts to ensure safe and healthy food, two leading European food testing laboratories are collaborating with Thermo Fisher Scientific at the company’s new Pesticide Analysis Center of Excellence to improve methods for detecting and measuring pesticide residues in food. The European Union Reference Laboratories (EURL) for Residues of Pesticides in Fruits […]

Tokyo, Japan—Tosoh launched in November 2013 worldwide sales of its newly developed separation media Toyopearl AF-r Protein A HC-650F. Production is taking place at its Nanyo Complex in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Toyopearl AF-r Protein A HC-650F will meet a crucial need within the biopharmaceutical industry. The biopharmaceutical industry is growing rapidly in Japan, in the […]

Shimadzu Corporation (head office: Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, President: Akira Nakamoto) established a wholly owned subsidiary Shimadzu Latin America S.A. (SLA) in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Uruguay hereinafter) in order to strengthen the company’s sales and distribution of analytical and measuring instruments and medical systems and also provide better support for customers and distributors in […]

Austin, TX — The 2013 INspiring INnovation Tour is a nationwide series of multi-track events sponsored by Perkin Elmer dedicated to sharing scientific knowledge. These events provide an opportunity for researchers to share their ideas and experiences with others in their industries. Last year over 1100 scientists and researchers participated in these events. Bioo Scientific, […]