Faes Farma – a Spanish pharmaceutical company headquartered near Bilbao – is using a Syrris Asia Flow Chemistry System to develop novel synthesis pathways for new and existing APIs. Dr Pablo Morán, a Chemical Innovation Scientist in the company’s R&D department, explained: “We are interested in using flow chemistry to allow us to perform reactions that would be too dangerous in a batch set-up, because they […]

INOVIO Plans to Have 100 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate INO-4800 Manufactured in 2021 PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. — INOVIO (NASDAQ:INO), a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, today announced that Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, […]

Even in the midst of COVID-19 preparations on campus, Walsh University successfully completed the installation of nearly $1.2 million worth of new analytical equipment through the Shimadzu SPARQ program into Walsh’s chemistry labs in time for fall 2020.  Renovations of the lab included work to accommodate new gas lines, exhaust hoods, electrical wiring, the proper […]

Oslo-Norway and Utrecht-The Netherlands — Bayer AS has installed a state-of-the-art MILabs VECTor PET/SPECT/CT system to support its Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) platform of oncology projects. After its success with radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo), the first and only clinically approved targeted alpha therapy, Bayer is advancing an emerging class of novel targeted alpha therapies that combine […]

Three years after its debut, NovaSeq makes deeper discoveries more accessible than ever A little more than three years after launching its most powerful sequencer, Illumina installed its 1,000th NovaSeqTM 6000 Sequencing System. The sequencer was placed at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June 2020. An early adopter of genome sequencing technology, […]

Portland-based lab is the first in Oregon to move to microbiological methods for identifying pathogens BEVERLY, Mass. — Medicinal Genomics Corp. (MGC), a pioneer in harnessing cannabis genomics to improve the agricultural productivity, safety and transparency of cannabis, today announced that Rose City Labs, a multistate state operating organization, has selected Medicinal Genomics’ PathoSEEK® qPCR […]

Continuous chromatography technology now planned for manufacturing suites to give CMO competitive edge with new therapies at attractive cost point Multiple production scale units purchased Devens, MA USA YMC will ship the first GMP scale twin-column HPLC systems enabled with the patented MCSGP (multi-column counter-current solvent gradient purification) process to a leading CMO. These first […]

Installation of a new Talos S/TEM from Thermo Scientific at Covalent’s Sunnyvale, CA, headquarters will accelerate analysis and enhance the ease and quality of S/TEM services. SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Covalent Metrology has completed installation of a new Thermo Scientific Talos F200X G2 S/TEM at its Sunnyvale, CA headquarters. This system, available now, generates clearer images with greater and improved elemental […]

Contract research organization (CRO) Radix BioSolutions is using the entire span of INTEGRA pipetting products to streamline its workflows and increase reproducibility. Dr Kerry Oliver, President and CSO of Radix, explained: “Our services cover everything from quantifying biomarkers and reagent labeling services to the development and production of multiplexed assays, and we use INTEGRA products across our workflow.” Using a whole range of INTEGRA products offers […]