FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK – EpigenTek, a Farmingdale, NY-based biotech firm specializing in epigenetic research products, has successfully developed and generated a new antibody: Furin Site Blocking Polyclonal Antibody (fbAB), that specifically targets the SARS-CoV-2-specific furin motif. This antibody has high sensitivity and specificity for the furin cleavage site of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and was shown in [...]

Mobile platform intended to produce >1,000s of ready-to-use doses at the site of need in under 3 days Project leverages GE’s expertise regarding synthetic method for producing industrial amounts of DNA GE’s DNA-based approach could be compatible with new, recently approved RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines NISKAYUNA, NY – March 2, 2021 – Aiming to enable vaccine production [...]

Pioneering the automated analysis of coffee bean taste at every stage of the supply chain Pilot successfully completed with agricultural commodities merchant Volcafe/ED&F Man Developing a series of apps with the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation, one of the world's largest rural cooperatives, to manage bean quality BOGOTA, Colombia and TEL AVIV, Israel -- Demetria, the first AI-powered taste and [...]

Highlights: Resolution Bioscience is a fast-growing, innovative leader in next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based oncology solutions. Combination brings together Resolution Bioscience’s noninvasive liquid biopsy platform that improves cancer diagnostics with Agilent’s leadership in tissue-based companion diagnostics and global commercial and regulatory scale. Furthers Agilent’s participation in fast-growing NGS technologies for precision oncology, expanding Agilent’s addressable market by [...]

Funding will advance 3D lung cell culture models to accelerate drug discovery Cambridge, UK: CN Bio, a leading developer of single and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), otherwise known as organ-on-a-chip, today announced it has received a grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to develop human-relevant MPS to advance investigations into SARS-CoV-2 infection. The funding [...]

Astronomy and Pathology (AstroPath™) come together for the first time to discover and clinically validate new spatial phenotypic signatures using multiplex immunofluorescence. Marlborough, MA —  Akoya Biosciences, Inc., The Spatial Biology Company®, today announced a collaboration with the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (BKI) and the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy at the Johns [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & BOULDER, Colo. -- Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, and Watchmaker Genomics today announced a broad partnership to enable innovative research across a wide range of high throughput sequencing applications including oncology and tumor [...]

Award offers recognition and support for promising women scientists SANTA CLARA, Calif. --  Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the recipient of the 2021 Darlene Solomon Award is Noemi Jiménez-Rojo, a postdoctoral fellow studying membrane biology, lipid diversity, and function at the University of Geneva. The award was presented at a virtual ceremony during the [...]

HORIBA Scientific, global leader in Raman spectroscopy for over 50 years, is proud to announce the launch of their new and innovative LabSpec 6 Application, χSTaiN™. Lille, France --  HORIBA Scientific, global leader in Raman spectroscopy for over 50 years, is proud to announce the launch of their new and innovative LabSpec 6 Application, χSTaiN™. χ STaiN™ App was [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and PARIS -- DNA Script, a leading pioneer in enabling DNA synthesis on demand, today announced that the company has been selected by GE Research to join a collaboration to develop a rapid response, mobile medical manufacturing platform to enable on-demand production of nucleic acid-based vaccines and therapies. The $41-million, five-year project was awarded as [...]