SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced that it has exercised its right of first refusal to expand the lease for its “Factory of the Future” manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon. The expanded […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced a license agreement for use of a proprietary Bio-Techne antibody by Xencor, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered monoclonal antibodies and cytokines for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, for its therapeutic development pipeline. Bio-Techne is a global life sciences company providing innovative tools and […]

Modular, automated 3D cell culture and image analysis lab enables customers to streamline and scale organoid interrogation, advancing drug discovery research San Jose, Calif. – Molecular Devices, LLC., an industry leader in 3D biology and automated high-content imaging, has opened an Organoid Innovation Center at the company’s global headquarters. The center expands beyond imaging to demonstrate an […]

Company rises in rank from last year SINGAPORE —  Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Agilent Singapore has been recognized as one of Singapore’s Best Employers in 2021 for the second year-in-a-row by The Straits Times, a leading Singapore-based newspaper. Specifically, Agilent is ranked among the top 100 companies and fifth out of […]

Malvern Panalytical (Malvern, UK and Almelo, The Netherlands), manufacturer of analytical systems, and Concept Life Sciences (Cheshire, UK), a contract research organization, have today announced a full business integration. The integration will expand the existing analytical instrument and service relationship (Amplify Analytics) to include the Chemistry and Biology services of CLS. Both entities are operating […]

Ionoptika have installed a prototype mass spec instrument at the University of Oxford, marking an exciting development milestone in this project. The prototype, which is a collaboration between the Rosalind Franklin Institute, the University of Oxford, and Ionoptika, is a new design of stigmatic imaging mass spectrometer. The first stage of this project took place […]

2021 marks the 20th anniversary of Nucleofector™ Platform – the industry-leading non-viral cell transfection method The technology is highly regarded and widely used across the research community, with a range of applications from basic research through to cell and gene therapy The Nucleofector™ System offers a flexible, reliable approach to transfection, including for primary cells, […]

EAU CLAIRE, Wis., US – Illumina, a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies is joining the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) as a sponsoring partner. The IWGSC is an international, collaborative consortium of wheat growers, plant scientists, and public and private breeders dedicated to the development of genomic resources for wheat scientists and breeders. These […]

CDD Awarded $1.5M Phase 2 SBIR Grant on an Intelligent Chemical Structure Browser for Drug Discovery and Optimization Burlingame, California — Collaborative Drug Discovery, provider of CDD Vault web-based drug discovery informatics platform, announced they won a competitive, peer-reviewed Phase 2 SBIR grant from NIH NCATS, titled: “Intelligent Chemical Structure Browser for Drug Discovery and Optimization”. This […]

New 280,000 square foot Kornberg Center accelerates scientific exploration and engages sustainability best practices Madison, WI USA. Promega Corporation today announced the opening of Kornberg Center, the biotech company’s newly constructed research and development facility on its Fitchburg, WI campus. The three-story, 280,000-square-foot building, named for Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Arthur Kornberg, will support core product […]