Company Announcements

Abcam named Gavin Wood, former executive vice president and CFO of Affymetrix, to succeed Jeff Iliffe as CFO, effective July 18.

Applied Biological Materials licensed immortalized Kupffer cells from Indiana University Research and Technology for commercialization.

Cell Applications and StemoniX partnered to enable mass production of human iPSCs from one lot within one week.

Mediatech, a Corning subsidiary, and Biological Industries (BI) agreed to cobrand BI’s NutriStem hPSC XF medium, which will be sold by Corning.

BioLegend licensed Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation’s MHC-multimer technology that allows users to prepare their own customized reagents in their labs. It is commercialized under the brand name Flex-T.

ATCC announced a partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a Mouse Cell Line Authentication Consortium. The three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement is for the validation of STR markers for mouse cell line authentication.

Product Introductions

In June, AMSBIO launched a range of products for human T-cell immunoreceptor with IG and ITIM domain research, including a Jurkat cell line, homogeneous assay kits and recombinant proteins.

AMSBIO introduced the PD-1 (Programmed Cell Death Protein 1)/NFAT Reporter – Jurkat Cell Line and the TCR activator/PD-L1 – CHO Recombinant Cell Line.

In July, AMSBIO launched the new CRISPR gRNA Lentivector Cloning Kits, featuring a pre-linearized lentivector.

In June, GeneTex released a set of nine antibodies against eight proteins encoded by the Zika virus genome.

Miltenyi Biotec launched the MACSPlex Exosome Kit for humans which enables the characterization of 37 exosome surface markers in a single experiment.

Lophius Biosciences launched the ELISpot MultiTrack 12 x 8-well PVDF microtiter strip plate for T cell research.

MTI-GlobalStem introduced the PluriQ G9 Gene Editing System and Cloning Medium for CRISPR genome editing in pluripotent stem cells.

DiscoverX launched the PathHunter b-Arrestin Retroparticles products for cell line and cell-based assay generation.

In July, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Axiom Precision Medicine Research Array for genotyping. It includes more than 900,000 markers of biological significance and is available for $29 per sample.

Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the Thermo Scientific Nunc Edge 2.0 96-Well Plate to virtually eliminate evaporation during lengthy incubation.