Aceto Expands Life Science Manufacturing with Acquisition of Finar Limited

Transaction expands Aceto’s GMP manufacturing footprint and global presence PORT WASHINGTON, NY — Aceto, a leading global provider of specialty materials for life sciences and advanced technology end markets, announced today the acquisition of a majority stake in Finar Limited. Finar is a leading manufacturer, supplier, and distributor of pharmaceutical excipients, lab chemicals, aquaculture inputs, and food grade additives.  The [...]

Meridian Improves Field-Testing in AgBio with its New Air-Dryable™ qPCR Mix for Crude Plant Samples

CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc., a leading global provider of diagnostic testing solutions and life science raw materials, announced today the launch of its new Air-Dryable™ Direct DNA qPCR Plant Mix. This unique Mix is specifically designed to develop and manufacture multiplexed highly sensitive and economical molecular field-tests in agriculture biotechnology (AgBio). Increasing global food [...]

Cytiva supports Prestige Biopharma to develop antibody therapies and manufacture COVID-19 vaccines

Cytiva will provide products and services to the soon-to-be largest vaccine manufacturing and biopharmaceutical development center in Korea Cytiva and Prestige Biopharma have formed a collaboration to accelerate manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies. With Cytiva’s cell culture and purification process products and services, Prestige will advance biopharmaceutical development, and rapidly and flexibly scale-up the [...]

Teledyne Completes Acquisition of FLIR

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today the successful completion of the acquisition of FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR​). At each of the respective company's special meeting of stockholders held on May 13, 2021, the stockholders approved and adopted merger proposals related to the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated January 4, 2021. [...]

Cytiva launches sustainability plan – ‘Designing in sustainability’

Cytiva sets out a sustainability plan to positively affect people and the planet, which underpins business resilience in a fast-changing world Performance highlights include: 1.2% absolute reduction of CO2e emissions and 6.5% reduction of absolute water consumption since 2019, even as demand and deliveries have grown 2025 targets include 100% of sites powered exclusively by [...]

IsoPlexis Strengthens Commercial Leadership with the Appointment of Jason Ou as Asia-Pacific General Manager

BRANFORD, Conn. -- IsoPlexis, the leader in single-cell proteomics, today announced that Jason Ou has joined the company as General Manager for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. In this role, Mr. Ou will continue to advance IsoPlexis' growth and expand the company's customer base in the APAC region. "We are pleased to have Jason join our leadership team [...]

Twist Bioscience Supports the Engineering Biology Research Consortium as it Publishes Statement of Ethics

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 its support of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) and its Statement of Ethics in Engineering Biology Research. A companion paper, titled “Guiding ethical principles in engineering [...]

Covalent Metrology Introduces Fast, Flexible Thermal Analysis Capabilities Using New High-Performance Instruments

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Covalent Metrology announces an expansion of its thermal characterization services through the installation of two top-of-line systems from TA Instruments for Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA). The new DSC 2500 and TGA 5500 systems are unrivaled in performance for thermal stability and thermal property testing, enabling Covalent to expedite analysis [...]

Successful NAP-XPS System Installation in Innsbruck

A new NAP-XPS system has successfully been installed at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, in the research groups of Prof. Dr. Bernahrd Klötzer, Prof. Dr. Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser and Prof. Dr. Thomas Loerting. It is a multi-method system designed for a wide variety of different operando experiments, like investigations of catalytic properties of solid surfaces and the [...]

Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Reference Materials

AMSBIO has announced a new range of AAV reference materials of full capsids and empty capsids of 6 different serotypes. Critical to enable meaningful comparisons between research studies and clinical trials, these well-characterized reference standards are extensively quality analyzed with molecular based assays and transmission electron microscope. Gene therapy researchers have long expressed the importance [...]

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