INOVIO Adds Thermo Fisher Scientific To Global Manufacturing Consortium

INOVIO Plans to Have 100 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate INO-4800 Manufactured in 2021 PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. -- INOVIO (NASDAQ:INO), a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, today announced that Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, [...]

BILLIONTOONE GRANTED FDA EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION FOR GROUNDBREAKING RNA EXTRACTION-FREE QSANGER-COVID-19 ASSAY

BillionToOne’s unique testing protocol removes costly, time-consuming step of RNA extraction and significantly expands testing capacity   MENLO PARK, Calif.–Today, BillionToOne, Inc., the precision diagnostics company, received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for their groundbreaking SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test which eliminates the costly and time-consuming step of RNA extraction. As opposed to most other molecular [...]

CELLINK have been granted funding totalling €3,910,000 from the EU as a part of the Horizon 2020 program. CELLINK’s portion of the grant is €270,000

The REPAIR project aims to develop a new approach and clinically applicable method in cardiac contraction assistance. Current medical or surgical treatments cannot restore muscular contractility in heart failure and atrial fibrillation, two of the most common and serious cardiac diseases. A revolutionary approach would be to use smart materials to support or restore cardiac mechanical [...]

S2 Genomics Announces Asia-Pacific Distribution Partnerships For the Singulator™ 100 System with SCRUM, PharmiGene, LnCBio, Thunderbio Science, and TrendBio to Accelerate Single-Cell Research.

LIVERMORE, CA: S2 Genomics, Inc., today announced that it has entered into distribution agreements with SCRUM, PharmiGene, LnCBio, Thunderbio Science, and TrendBio for the promotion, sales, and support of S2’s Singulator™ 100 System and associated products for single-cell genomics and cell biology applications in the Asia-Pacific region. The distribution agreements cover Japan (SCRUM), South Korea [...]

Illumina and SPHCC Accelerate NGS Research in Shanghai

Leading institute will implement our technology and training with goal of epidemic prevention When the coronavirus outbreak hit at the end of 2019, the P3 Biosafety Laboratory research team at Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (SPHCC) deployed the Illumina MiniSeq™ for the deep transcriptome sequencing of patients’ samples. SPHCC also was among the first to [...]

New partnership for next generation superresolution microscopy

abberior and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have launched a collaboration on the application of MINFLUX in biology. The goal of this agreement is to combine forces regarding further development of the method, and to apply superresolution MINFLUX microscopy to living systems. To this end, abberior installed a MINFLUX system at the EMBL Imaging Centre in Heidelberg, Germany in August 2020. This nanoscope will be [...]

Pipette.com Will Be Adding New Pipette Calibration Services to Its Portfolio

SAN DIEGO - With a history of excellence and over 20 years of experience in calibrating pipettes, Pipette.com is the largest independent pipette calibration facility on the West Coast. Pipette.com is also a distributor of several manufacturers of pipettes, pipette tips and lab equipment. Pipette.com uses a metrology-based measurement for all different pipette brands for calibration, including Eppendorf Pipette Calibration. Metrology is [...]

TTP plc to support life science and healthcare start-ups through partnership with Start Codon

TTP will provide entrepreneurs with mentoring and tech consultancy, to accelerate product development and commercialisation Agreement underlines TTP’s commitment to sharing knowledge and experience with innovative start-ups TTP to deliver virtual seminar on 17 September as part of Start Codon and Cancer Research UK’s Entrepreneurial Training Scheme Cambridge, UK: TTP plc (TTP), a leading independent technology and product [...]

MilliporeSigma Supports Eijkman Institute to Expedite Covid-19 Vaccine Development Research

Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology developing Covid-19 vaccine based on local strain virus strain Institute to receive research instruments and materials to advance production Jakarta, Indonesia — MilliporeSigma, a leading science and technology company, today announced the donation of research instruments and materials worth IDR 1.2 billion (€ 74,000) to support the efforts of Eijkman Institute [...]

54gene Uses Illumina Sequencing to Create World-Class Facility

As the oldest human genome, the African genome contains more diversity than any other continent. However, it’s estimated that fewer than 3% of the genomes analyzed come from Africans, making it a potentially rich source of new genetic information for health and medicines research. 54gene, a Nigeria-based company, intends to redress this under-representation of the African population [...]

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