GenScript ProBio and Initium Therapeutics announced that Initium Therapeutics has launched a single B-cell based antibody development platform through collaboration with GenScript ProBio. Initium Therapeutics is a US biotechnology company, a spin-off from South Korean biotech company Tiumbio, seeking antibody-based therapeutics for patients who are suffering from unaddressed incurable and rare diseases. The strategic collaboration […]

– Supporting drug development research through the use of HCA and three-dimensional culture models – Tokyo, Japan – Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has entered into a partnership agreement with InSphero AG, a pioneer in the development of 3D in vitro*1 technologies for drug discovery and safety. The two companies aim to establish […]

Simplify drug efficacy and neurotoxicity evaluation TOKYO, Japan – Ricoh Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) and Elixirgen Scientific, Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) have jointly developed assay-ready cell plates, which may dramatically simplify the drug efficacy testing for neurological diseases and the neurotoxicity testing for chemical compounds. This product contains human neurons generated from human induced pluripotent stem […]

Positioning Australia at the forefront of healthcare innovation The Victorian Government collaborated with the University of Melbourne and Illumina to secure a $60 million investment for a world-leading genomics hub in Victoria called the Illumina–University of Melbourne Genomics Hub. This collaboration puts Victoria, the University of Melbourne’s researchers, students, and precinct partners at the forefront […]

Optibrium, Intellegens and Medicines Discovery Catapult combine their expertise in drug discovery and AI research CAMBRIDGE, and MACCLESFIELD, UK – The consortium behind the DeepADMET project set up to advance artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery, today announced the successful conclusion of this project which was funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. Optibrium […]

Associated Collaboration with the New York Genome Center to Expand Patient Access to Advanced Genomic Technologies New York — Seeking to advance the scope of precision medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Illumina, Inc. are entering into a collaboration to sequence the complete human genomes of thousands of consenting patients, in order to identify genetic alterations driving disease […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) and Regulus Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RGLS) announced a collaboration to support Regulus with biomarker analysis for the clinical development of RGLS4326, an Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) treatment. Regulus has utilized two Bio-Techne branded product lines, ProteinSimple and Exosome Diagnostics, to aid in their clinical trial patient testing.  RGLS4326 […]

The partnership launches RoosterBio’s first international platform with off-the-shelf working cell banks and hMSC bioprocess media products in Asia FREDERICK, Md. — RoosterBio, Inc, a leading supplier of innovative cellular therapy bioprocess tools and scalable manufacturing solutions for regenerative medicine, today announced it entered into an exclusive agency agreement with Sartorius Korea Biotech, a subsidiary of the […]

DUBLIN, Ireland & Frankfurt a.M., Germany: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Vivlion GmbH, a startup company providing next generation CRISPR/Cas gRNA libraries and screening services for the global R&D market, today announced a non-exclusive license agreement granting Vivlion® […]

Sanyou signs two commercial-use licenses for Horizon’s gene-edited CHO-K1 GS knockout cell line, for use in biotherapeutic pipeline development and contract research services Cambridge, UK, and Shanghai, China: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”, “the Company” or “the Group”), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, […]