BioTools and Liverpool ChiroChem announce a collaboration aimed at accelerating the discovery of novel, stereo-defined, enantioenriched compounds.

Florida, USA –  BioTools, provider of instrumentation and analytical services for structure elucidation of biologics and chiral molecules for drug discovery, and Liverpool ChiroChem (LCC), a chemical technology innovator that produces thousands of novel, multifunctional 3D fragments/scaffolds/building blocks to support new chiral entities (NCE) discovery & development, announce a collaboration to determine the absolute configuration [...]

Waters Corporation Appoints Wei Jiang to Board of Directors

MILFORD, Mass. -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced the appointment of Wei Jiang to its Board of Directors, effective July 14, 2021. Mr. Jiang currently serves as Executive Vice President and President, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Region China & APAC and President, Bayer Group Greater China. Dr. Flemming Ornskov, Chairman of the Board, said, “We are excited [...]

Cellexus receive Innovate UK grant

We are delighted to have been awarded a grant of up to £320,000 from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, for the research and development of a 100L bioreactor for stem cell applications. Our existing range Our existing range of patented airlift, single-use bioreactors includes the CellMaker Systems: Regular, Low Flow and Plus – created [...]

GenapSys™ Announces Additions to the Company’s Executive Team

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- GenapSys, Inc. (GenapSys), a company developing a highly accurate and scalable electronic sequencing platform, today announced the additions of Britton Russell, Mary Stewart, and Surekha Karudapuram to its executive team. "We are pleased to welcome Britton, Mary, and Surekha to our growing team," said Jason Myers, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of GenapSys. "Their deep set [...]

NanoTemper Enters Protein Production Market With Andromeda, Helping Biopharma and CROs to Increase Efficiency of Expression Screening for Membrane Proteins

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- NanoTemper Technologies, well-known for creating biophysical tools that tackle challenging characterizations, enters the protein production market with the release of Andromeda, an instrument that determines optimal expression levels and thermal stability of recombinant membrane proteins in crude lysates — something unachievable using currently available methods or technologies on their own. [...]

DeepVerge plc: Microtox® PD claims world first live data alerts of SARS-Cov-2 in wastewater treatment plants

Modern Water enters Service Agreement with EPS Group for European Microtox® PD installations YORK, England -- DeepVerge (LSE: DVRG.L), today announces the successful completion of Phase 3 field trials in which Microtox® PD achieved real-time detection and transmission of data, specific to SARS-CoV-2, in wastewater treatment plants at multiple sites. As a result, its Environmental Health Division [...]

bioMérieux launches EPISEQ® SARS-COV-2, a cloud-based software application for the epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants

bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, has launched EPISEQ® SARS-COV-2, a genomic software solution to support microbiology labs in identification and reporting from raw sequencing data related to SARS-CoV-2 variants. Viral mutation is a naturally occurring phenomenon leading to the emergence of variants that can have different characteristics. Today, a number of [...]

Dedicated cGMP Facility for Porous Plastic Components

Porvair Sciences reports investment in a dedicated clean area for manufacturing Vyon® porous plastic components for healthcare, pharmaceutical and life science products.With the global market searching for high performance solutions for critical filtration, laboratory liquid handling and separation applications - Porvair has experienced a doubling in demand for components and products such as pipette filter tips based upon its Vyon® [...]

CELLINKs EpiDerm ™ skin model has been approved by the OECD as a stand-alone in-vitro test method for phototoxicity

MatTek Life Sciences, a subsidiary of CELLINK, today announced the acceptance of the EpiDerm™ Phototoxicity Test as part of Test Guideline No. 498 In vitro Phototoxicity: Reconstructed Human Epidermis Phototoxicity Test Method by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This effort is very much in line with the Group’s goals to reduce and eventually replace animal [...]

Pacific Biosciences and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine Announce its First Research Collaboration for Whole Genome Sequencing

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACB)(“Pacific Biosciences” or “PacBio”), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing platforms, and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM), a mission-driven, non-profit seeking to save lives and improve outcomes for patients, clinicians and families, shared today that they are collaborating on a study which aims to identify [...]

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