BIO-TECHNE TO ACQUIRE ASURAGEN

MINNEAPOLIS and AUSTIN, Texas -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), a global life sciences company providing innovative tools and bioactive reagents for the research and clinical diagnostic communities, today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Asuragen, Inc. for initial consideration of $215 million in cash plus contingent consideration of up to $105 million upon [...]

ERS Genomics licenses CRISPR gene editing technology to Otsuka Pharmaceutical

License to Nobel prize winning CRISPR technology supports internal research and development DUBLIN, Ireland, 03 March 2021: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property today announced the signing of a license agreement with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Otsuka). The license grants Otsuka access to CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology [...]

New Water Quality Monitoring Solution Maximizes Operational Efficiencies and Boosts Productivity

The Thermo Scientific Orion 8000 Series Analyzer Platform meets the high-quality water analysis needs of both municipal and industrial facilities Caption: The Thermo Scientific Orion 8000 Series Analyzer Platform maximizes operational efficiencies and boosts productivity. Waltham, MA – Municipal and industrial facilities where high quality water analysis is of critical importance can now benefit from [...]

Breast Cancer Cell Line Array

AMSBIO announce a new HER2 control cell line array that was developed and is proven as an effective slide quality control for HER2 expression in breast cancer tissue samples.This new FFPE cell pellet microarray delivers a full dynamic range of HER2, ER and PR expression, validated by the Ventana system, to give immunohistochemical data in strong concordance with the routinely processed tissue sample.sections.Using cell line [...]

Dotmatics announces licensing agreement for informatics software with Compugen

Compugen selects Dotmatics’ cloud-based LIMS and ELN solution to drive efficient drug discovery Agreement marks the first implementation of Dotmatics SaaS technology in Israel, further extending global access Bishop’s Stortford, UK: Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, today [...]

Celltrio and Biosero Automated Solutions Accelerate Cell Culture and Harvesting Process 2-3 Fold

SAN DIEGO and SANTA CLARA, CALIF. –  Biosero, Inc. and Celltrio, Inc. will integrate Biosero’s Green Button Go™ Automation Scheduling Software with Celltrio’s innovative RoboCell™ Automation Platform to accelerate cell line culturing and harvesting processes, including cryogenic storage, into a highly flexible and modular end-to-end system. “Combining the Green Button Go™ scheduling software platform with our robotic cell line development platform [...]

Thermo Scientific Spectra Ultra Offers a Leap Forward for Advanced Materials Characterization

All-in-one (S)TEM enables the understanding of complex samples for materials scientists and semiconductor manufacturers HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today unveiled the Thermo Scientific Spectra Ultra, a next-generation scanning transmission electron microscope ((S)TEM) that offers structural and chemical insight on a wide range of materials at atomic-scale resolution. The [...]

Drug Developers Can Measure ADCC in Biologically Relevant Systems with New Promega Bioluminescent Primary Cell Bioassay

Promega PBMC ADCC Bioassay combines physiologically representative primary cells with reliable quantitative readout technology Madison, WI USA. Drug developers have a new bioluminescent tool to characterize how potential pharmaceuticals behave in biologically relevant systems. A new primary cell bioassay from Promega Corporation uses peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) to measure the antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) [...]

Metrohm USA Announces 9th Annual Young Chemist Award Winner

Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the winner of its 2021 Young Chemist Award, Ryan Jansonius. Ryan is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia where his research centers around developing technologies that use inexpensive and abundant renewable electricity to drive otherwise environmentally costly chemical transformations. The production of fuels, plastics, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, [...]

Seven Bridges Announces Strategic Advisory Board Appointments

Dr. David Ledbetter, Dr. Neil Martin and Chris Mattmann bring deep experience in healthcare and artificial intelligence to help Seven Bridges use biomedical data to improve health outcomes BOSTON – Seven Bridges, the industry-leading bioinformatics ecosystem provider, today announced the formation of its strategic advisory board tasked with advising Seven Bridges leadership team in its mission [...]

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