MilliporeSigma Expands Production Capacities

MilliporeSigma today announced the broadening of its manufacturing footprint with a combined $47 million investment at its production facilities in Danvers, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire. New England expansions to significantly increase capacity to meet unprecedented demand Combined expansion of Danvers, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New  Hampshire, facilities to create nearly 700 new positions 2020 investments [...]

QIAGEN to launch QuantiFERON SARS-CoV-2 for research into causes, spread and control of COVID-19 through T-cell response

• T-cell response has the potential to give a clearer picture of immunity and course of illness • T-cell response to SARS-CoV-2 may decline less rapidly than antibodies • Potentially vital tool for research into immune response and vaccination efficacy Hilden, Germany and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced today [...]

Life Science Labs Produce Accurate and Reliable Data with Biosero and Elemental Machines Integrated Technologies

SAN DIEGO & CAMBRIDGE, MASS.  – Biosero, Inc. and Elemental Machines will integrate Biosero’s Green Button Go™ Automation Scheduling Software with Elemental Machines’ AI-powered platform so scientists and researchers can produce consistent, reliable results from every life science laboratory experiment. Biosero’s device- and data-agnostic laboratory automation software will integrate with the Elemental Machines intelligent IoT platform to connect it [...]

Deepcell Closes $20 Million Series A Round to Develop AI-Powered Capture of Cells for Precision Medicine

Company’s intelligent microfluidics platform can identify virtually any cell type, at frequencies as low as one in a billion MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. − Deepcell, a life science company pioneering AI-powered cell classification and isolation for cell biology and translational research, today announced that it has closed its Series A round of financing with $20 million, [...]

Omega Bio-tek Announces Facility Expansion To Accommodate Growth

NORCROSS, GA – Omega Bio-tek, Inc., an industry-leading manufacturer of nucleic acid purification kits, is announcing a new facility acquisition in response to the increased demand for the company’s DNA/RNA purification kits and automation support services. The new building investment will bring the total square footage of Omega Bio-tek’s facilities to over 65,000 square feet. [...]

Agilent Presents Thought Leader Award to IIT Delhi Scientist Professor Anurag Rathore

Prof. Rathore is the first researcher in India to receive this award; he has been recognized for his contributions to biopharmaceutical research SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has honored Prof. Anurag Rathore, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, with an Agilent Thought Leader Award, for his contributions to the [...]

LUMICKS enters collaboration with LAVA Therapeutics to characterize its tumor-specific γδ T-cell engagers using the z-Movi® Cell Avidity Analyzer

Amsterdam, the Netherlands —  In their quest of creating safe and effective immunotherapy cancer treatments, LUMICKS and LAVA Therapeutics joined forces. The partnership aims to evaluate the efficacy of various tumor-specific γδ T-cell engagers based on the resulting binding strengths (cell avidity) between T cells and tumors, measured with LUMICKS newly installed z-Movi® Cell Avidity Analyzer. LAVA Therapeutics [...]

IDBS Launches Polar™ in a New Product Category That Aims to Streamline and Speed up Biopharmaceutical Development

GUILDFORD, England: IDBS, a software informatics solution provider for biotech and pharma, today announced the launch of Polar™, establishing a new product category, BioPharma Lifecycle Management (BPLM), aimed at streamlining drug development and manufacturing in biopharma research. The development of biologics is a dynamic process and those who are most successful must be able to [...]

Through strategic collaboration with GenScript ProBio, Initium Therapeutics plans to utilize GenScript ProBio’s Berkeley Lights Beacon platform to expand their antibody drug pipeline.

GenScript ProBio and Initium Therapeutics announced that Initium Therapeutics has launched a single B-cell based antibody development platform through collaboration with GenScript ProBio. Initium Therapeutics is a US biotechnology company, a spin-off from South Korean biotech company Tiumbio, seeking antibody-based therapeutics for patients who are suffering from unaddressed incurable and rare diseases. The strategic collaboration [...]

Evonik takes NIR technology for raw material and feed analyses mobile

AMINONIR® Portable for on-site raw material and feed analyses from the industry leader No sample preparation necessary Reliable results for customers within minutes Improved ingredient management and feed quality Essen, Germany. Evonik has launched AMINONIR® Portable, a mobile NIR service with a world’s-first feature: amino acid calibrations. AMINONIR® Portable enables the reliable determination of energy, [...]

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