Thermo Fisher Scientific Investments Support Rapidly Increasing Bioprocessing Production

More than $600 million in investments will enable reliable supply of critical materials used to produce new vaccines and biologics WALTHAM, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced more than $600 million in capital investments to expand its bioprocessing production capabilities through 2022. These investments are expected [...]

UPM Biomedicals and CELLINK form collaboration for groundbreaking 3D bioprinting developments

UPM Biomedicals is excited to announce its collaboration with bioconvergence company CELLINK. 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 groundbreaking solutions to this growing life sciences market. Advances in 3D printing in the past decade have been outstanding, and the technology [...]

Alliance Global Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Agena Bioscience

DUBAI, UAE -- Agena Bioscience®, the global manufacturer of the MassARRAY® System for targeted genetic analysis has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Alliance Global (AGBL Group) to bring the MassARRAY technology to many emerging markets across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. "With their extensive biomedical distribution network, AGBL is an ideal partner to bring our [...]

Agena Bioscience Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement with AGBL Group of Companies

SAN DIEGO -- Agena Bioscience®, the global manufacturer of the MassARRAY® System for targeted genetic analysis, today announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Alliance Global, the AGBL Group of companies, to bring the MassARRAY technology to many emerging markets across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. "With their extensive biomedical distribution network, AGBL is an ideal partner to bring [...]

World-leading wildlife DNA sampling equipment readily available in Australia & New Zealand

Environmental managers, researchers and citizen scientists gain access to innovative environmental DNA sampling equipment with announcement of EnviroDNA and Smith-Root partnership. EnviroDNA provides leading solutions for innovative DNA-based wildlife surveys and biodiversity monitoring. The team of scientists detect wildlife by finding traces of their DNA left behind in environmental samples such as water from rivers and wetlands. [...]

ERS Genomics and Setsuro Tech sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement

Nobel prize winning CRISPR technology to be applied in development of genetically engineered cell and animal models DUBLIN, Ireland & Tokushima, Japan: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Setsuro Tech, a biotechnology start-up using genome-editing techniques to develop and supply [...]

MatTek Acquired By CELLINK

MatTek Corporation has entered into an agreement to be acquired by CELLINK, a world-leading bioconvergence company Ashland, MA – MatTek Corporation, a Boston-area life sciences company specializing in lab-engineered human tissue production, announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by CELLINK, a leader in bioprinting, multiomics, cell line development and diagnostics. For nearly [...]

Scitara Corporation Brings Life Sciences Industry a New Level of Lab Integration with Digital Lab Exchange (DLX™) 1.0

Groundbreaking digital connectivity and infrastructure solution for scientific labs brings unparalleled data connectivity, automation and insights to accelerate science Marlborough, MA, USA — Scitara Corporation, a pioneer in digital transformation and IoLT and an emerging leader in delivering data connectivity to scientific laboratories, today announced version 1.0 of its Scitara Digital Lab Exchange (DLX™) SaaS cloud platform [...]

Ontera Expands Leadership Team with Accomplished Diagnostic Industry Executives

– Paul Marr appointed as chief commercial officer – John J. Sperzel joins Board of Directors Ontera, Inc., the leader in silicon-based nanopore sensing and diagnostics, today announced the appointments of Paul Marr, experienced diagnostics sales executive, as Chief Commercial Officer and John J. Sperzel, President and Chief Executive Officer at T2 Biosystems, to the [...]

Codex DNA Releases World’s First Synthetic Genomes for Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants

New synthetic genomes of the UK and South Africa variants will accelerate discovery and development for vaccines and therapeutics San Diego -- Codex DNA, Inc., today announced the release of the world’s first full-length synthetic genomes for two emerging variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The new genomes include the B.1.1.7 variant that initially emerged in [...]

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