Whole-genome sequencing offers the ability to reduce pediatric diagnostic odysseys which cost at least $14 billion annually in the U.S. SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) is bringing turn-key data analysis solutions to accelerate and facilitate the adoption of whole-genome sequencing with the launch of the TruSight™ Software Suite. TruSight Software delivers ready-made infrastructure to realize [...]

Recombinant engineered antibodies for COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutic development   Redcar, UK. Absolute Antibody Ltd., an industry-leading provider of recombinant antibody products and services, today announced a partnership with University of Zurich to offer synthetic nanobodies against the receptor binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Under the partnership, the original nanobodies and newly [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced a partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) for access to proprietary phage display libraries for the discovery, validation and optimization of antibodies in Takeda’s pipeline [...]

Leading microplate technology specialists - Porvair Sciences has expanded its range of high integrity heat sealing films.Choosing the correct combination of seal and closure device for different types of microplate is important to achieving good laboratory practice and to avoid unnecessary work further downstream. Microplates are a convenient method for storing, transporting and handling compounds and samples, but [...]

GeneX India Biosciences takes over sole distribution activities in India IT Technologies will operate in Singapore and Malaysia Ajdovšcina, Slovenia: BIA Separations, a leading bio-chromatography development and manufacturing company, today announced it has signed agreements with Bioscience companies, GeneX India Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. (GeneX India) and IT Technologies Pte. Ltd. (IT Tech). Both Companies will act [...]

The "new" era of high-throughput multi-omics, when proteomics meets genomics UPPSALA, Sweden: With this new and important collaboration, customers in China will have access to run Olink fee for service projects in a similar way that customers have in other parts of the world. It will also mean that WuXi NextCODE will further improve their [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK and Durham, NC, USA: Optibrium™, a leading provider of software and services for drug discovery, and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM), the states leading high school for science, technology and math education, are celebrating five years of an education support collaboration. As part of this specialist science and technology summer school [...]

Cambridge MA – Electronic lab notebook provider BioData is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Standard, the world’s most rigorous and well-regarded standard for information security management. This badge of excellence means BioData has achieved one of the highest possible standards of security to protect the data of its clients in laboratories across the [...]

Agreement aims to expedite local biomarker testing of NSCLC patients eligible for entrectinib in Japan CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed a companion diagnostic (CDx) agreement with Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a member of the Roche Group, and has applied to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) to expand the use of the Oncomine Dx [...]

Tromsø, Norway: Currently there is a large demand for rapid and reliable point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests for viral and bacterial pathogens to expedite clinical decision making and control disease spread. When establishing these new POC assays, the use of robust components allowing amplification directly from biological sample material is essential. Our new optimized IsoPol BST+ 10X [...]