Azbil appoints Kiyohiro Yamamoto as new President and Group CEO

Aiming for new growth stage incorporating the changing business environment and technological innovation Azbil Corporation has announced the appointment of Kiyohiro Yamamoto, currently managing executive officer, as executive vice president effective as of April 1, 2020. At the same time, current President and Chief Executive Officer of the azbil Group Hirozumi Sone will assume the [...]

UPM and Nichirei Biosciences announce partnership to supply Japanese 3D cell culture market with GrowDex® advanced natural hydrogels

(UPM, Helsinki) – UPM Biomedicals and Nichirei Biosciences Inc. signed an agreement on 1 March 2020 to offer the full range of UPM cell culture products to life sciences researchers in Japan. This agreement will provide the country’s cell biology community with direct access to UPM’s GrowDex® hydrogels for the first time, supporting advanced cell [...]

Sengenics Successfully Produces Functional COVID-19 Antigens and Makes Them Available for Research and Vaccine Development

Sengenics, a leading precision medicine company, today announced that the company has made full-length, correctly folded and functional COVID-19 antigens available for purchase for both research and vaccine development purposes. Sengenics has successfully expressed these antigens using the company’s patented and validated KREX™ technology. ”The surge of COVID-19 infections has pushed us to accelerate the production [...]

Park Systems Opens Park Nanoscience Center Equipped with Cleanroom and Line of Academic and Industrial Tools

With the beginning of 2020, Park Systems, a leading innovator of atomic force microscopy (AFM) technology, increases the business investment in Europe by inaugurating a new scientific facility for academic and industrial research in Mannheim, Germany. The Grand Opening Ceremony of the new Nanoscience Center Europe took place Tuesday, February 18, 2020, gathering customers, collaborators [...]

Toxys Raises €2 Million Financing for Global Expansion of its Unique Animal-Free Chemical Safety Tests

LEIDEN, The Netherlands -- Toxys is an innovative Dutch biotech company that develops unique animal-free laboratory tests for the safety assessment of novel medicines, chemicals, cosmetics and food. Today, Toxys announces a €2 million funding round from KIKK Capital, InnovationQuarter, Zeeland Investment fund, Toxys management and Rabobank. This investment is being made to advance Toxys’ ambition to become the global [...]

Pressure BioSciences Nearing Complete Sellout on Pre-launch Offering of Game-Changing UST System for Processing CBD Oil Into Water-soluble Nanoemulsions

SOUTH EASTON, Massachusetts -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB:PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company"), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure-based instruments, consumables, and platform technology solutions to the worldwide life sciences and other industries, today announced that the Company has received a purchase order from a new customer, Can B Corp (OTC:CANBD), [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Signs Agreement with Janssen to Co-Develop Companion Diagnostic for Cancer

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific announced today it has signed an agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, to co-develop a companion diagnostic (CDx) in oncology. The CDx will support clinical trial enrollment globally. Under the agreement, Thermo Fisher Scientific will collaborate with Janssen Research & Development, [...]

Twist Bioscience Announces Availability of Synthetic SARS-CoV-2 RNA Controls

- Positive Controls can be Used as Reference to Verify and Validate RT-PCR and NGS Assays -- SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-- Twist Bioscience Corporation (Nasdaq: TWST) today announced the availability of two synthetic SARS-CoV-2 RNA Controls. Positive controls provide quality control measures for the development, verification, and validation for diagnostic tests including both next-generation sequencing [...]

New LSI Collaboration with Oligo Factory

LEOMINSTER, MA, Mar. 12, 2020—Oligo Factory and Landrau Scientific Innovations have agreed to collaborate on developing a Poly dT affinity purification media. This media will be useful to researchers and process purification laboratories involved in the purification of mRNA-based cancer immunotherapies and infectious disease vaccines. The companies hope that the affinity media will offer an alternative [...]

Cerno Bioscience is now an official distributor of both the NIST and Wiley MS libraries

Cerno Bioscience is now an official distributor of both the NIST and Wiley MS libraries making us the one-stop-shop for all your MS library needs.  NIST20 is the affordable standard library that includes search software and over 300,000 compounds.  Wiley libraries are the largest available and include the Wiley Registry of almost 1,000,000 compounds plus [...]

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