MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Asuragen, Inc.  The transaction included initial consideration of $215 million in cash plus contingent consideration of up to $105 million upon the achievement of certain future milestones.  The Asuragen acquisition adds a leading portfolio of best-in-class molecular diagnostic and research products, [...]

WATERTOWN, Mass.-- Captivate Bio, a scientific cell culture solutions provider headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, announced today it has signed a distribution agreement with denovoMATRIX GmbH, a biotechnology company located in Dresden, Germany which designs modular, biomimetic coatings for adherent cell manufacturing. Captivate Bio will become the North American distributor of myMATRIX products including the innovative [...]

CELLINK entered a collaboration with UPM Biomedicals in March which is now running according to plan. The partnership brings together UPM:s expertise for producing non-animal derived, nanocellulose biomaterials with CELLINK’s years of experience in method development for 3D bioprinting, offering new ground-breaking solutions to this growing life sciences market. Advances in 3D printing in the [...]

ABEC Custom Single Run (CSR) systems supplied on fast-track schedule to support flexible manufacturing of plasmid DNA Bethlehem, PA, USA – ABEC, a leading global provider of integrated solutions and services for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced that it has supplied two 50L CSR single-use fermenters to Catalent Cell & Gene Therapy. The custom designed systems were delivered on an accelerated [...]

GUILDFORD, United Kingdom -- LabVoice, which provides a workflow engine for scientific voice assistants, and IDBS, a leading R&D technology and solutions provider, are excited to announce an integration to accelerate research, innovation, and design. By introducing voice to IDBS scientific software platforms, scientists will have real-time access to their ELN, regardless of their location in [...]

Hamburg -- Four additional variants have been added to Eppendorf’s line-up of Move It® adjustable tip spacing pipettes. With adjustable cone distances, Move It® pipettes allow scientists to accelerate and simplify their workflow when pipetting between different vessel formats such as from tubes to plates. The new electronic Eppendorf Xplorer® plus Move It® models feature [...]

Global distribution agreement with ABCAM plc to sell Avacta’s SARS-CoV-2 research ELISA Affimer reagents Cambridge, UK: Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of innovative cancer therapies and diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a global distribution agreement with ABCAM plc (AIM: ABC; NASDAQ: ABCM) [...]

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 [...]

NEW YORK -- NanoMosaic, the pioneer and leader in nanoneedle (MosaicNeedle™) detection for proteomics and genomics, has installed its end-user fully customizable, nanoneedle proteomic beta system, "Tessie™," at its second test site, the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute (NYSCF). Tessie™, is able to achieve seven orders of dynamic range interrogation at a competitive, [...]

- Simultaneous measurement of oxygen, carbon monoxide, and methane concentrations for optimum combustion control in heating furnaces - Tokyo, Japan -- Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has developed the TDLS8200 probe type tunable diode laser spectrometer and will release it for sale on May 6 as part of its OpreX™ Analyzer family. [...]