Faes Farma – a Spanish pharmaceutical company headquartered near Bilbao – is using a Syrris Asia Flow Chemistry System to develop novel synthesis pathways for new and existing APIs. Dr Pablo Morán, a Chemical Innovation Scientist in the company’s R&D department, explained: “We are interested in using flow chemistry to allow us to perform reactions that would be too dangerous in a batch set-up, because they [...]

BILLERICA, Mass.-- Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced that it has appointed Bonnie H. Anderson to serve on its board of directors, effective as of September 3, 2020. Ms. Anderson is Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Veracyte, a global genomic diagnostics company that improves patient care by informing diagnosis and treatment decisions in [...]

New laboratory tool promises analytical power in a small footprint CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- miniPCR bio, a manufacturer of scientific tools for educators and researchers, today announced the launch of the GELATO™, an integrated DNA analysis system. GELATO™ combines gel electrophoresis with transillumination technology, allowing for simultaneous nucleic acid separation and visualization in a single, compact system. GELATO™ [...]

Applied Biosystems RapidHIT ID System plays key role in arrestee testing and investigative lead generation SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has approved Thermo Fisher Scientific's Applied Biosystems RapidHIT ID System for use by accredited forensic DNA laboratories to process DNA reference samples and search resulting profiles against the U.S. [...]

CDx approval expands clinical utility of Oncomine Dx Target Test to identify candidates for GAVRETO CARLSBAD, Calif. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific's Oncomine Dx Target Test as a companion diagnostic (CDx) to identify RET fusion-positive, metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who are candidates for GAVRETO™ (pralsetinib), [...]

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’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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]