Tarveda Therapeutics Provides Update on Proposed Merger with Organovo

— Unanticipated late opposition by major Organovo stockholder results in termination of proposed merger agreement — — Tarveda continues advancement of current Pentarin® miniature drug conjugate clinical programs towards key clinical milestones — Watertown, MA – Tarveda Therapeutics, Inc. (“Tarveda”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of potent and selective precision oncology medicines, which it [...]

SP Scienceware Launches New ProCulture® Product Line

WAYNE, N.J. -- ProCulture®, the new workflow-minded product line for cell culture from Bel-Art and Wilmad-LabGlass brands, covers multiple steps of the cell culture process from isolation to harvesting. Products include an array of Shaker Flasks, Spinner Flasks with a unique impeller that increases aeration and eliminates dead spots, and an Orbital Shaker Platform that converts an [...]

Merck Awarded Second U.S. Patent for CRISPR Gene-Editing Technology

Merck today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company's patent for CRISPR-chrom technology.   CRISPR-chrom technology improves access to genome for more efficient editing Only U.S. patent holder in the CRISPR chromatin space Company driving innovation in CRISPR gene-editing technologies Darmstadt, Germany -- Merck, a leading science and technology [...]

OGT delivers translocation and partial tandem duplication detection with updates to SureSeq NGS portfolio

New content and Interpret NGS analysis software detection capabilities include BCR-ABL and KMT2A-PTD detection Oxford, UK –  Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), A Sysmex Group Company, announces the addition of accurate detection capabilities for translocations and difficult-to-sequence partial tandem duplications (PTDs) in its popular myPanel™ customisable SureSeq™ NGS panels. This latest update is, for example, beneficial to researchers investigating [...]

SGI-DNA is now Codex

Pioneering DNA synthesis company - inventor of the Gibson Assembly method and the BioXp system - furthers its mission to empower researchers in moving from reading DNA to writing and printing DNA SAN DIEGO, California SGI-DNA, Inc. creators of the world's first fully automated system for high-throughput writing of DNA, the BioXp 3200 system, today [...]

Polyplus-transfection launches FectoVIR®-AAV transfection reagent for viral vector bottleneck in gene and cell therapy development

Polyplus-transfection® SA, the leading biotechnology company that supports the gene and cell therapy market by supplying innovative transfection solutions, today announces it will make available to the market a novel transfection reagent FectoVIR®-AAV in May 2020. The reagent has been specifically developed to improve AAV (adeno-associated virus) production in suspension cell culture system for large-scale [...]

Konstantine Haralampopoulos named Business Development Director, Daicel GMP Analytical Services and Pharma Standards at Chiral Technologies, Inc.

Konstantine Haralampopoulos named Business Development Director, Daicel GMP Analytical Services and Pharma Standards at Chiral Technologies, Inc.   WEST CHESTER, Pa — Chiral Technologies, Inc. today announced the hiring of Konstantine Haralampopoulos, as the company’s new Business Development Director for DAICEL GMP Analytical Services and Pharma Standards. For the last several years, Konstantine has been [...]

Halo Labs Raises $12M in Series B1 Financing Round and Enters into the FDA Market

BURLINGAME, Calif.-- Halo Labs, a life science instrumentation company developing tools for biologics researchers, today announced it has closed a $12M Series B1 financing round led by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT).  The funding will be used for expanding Halo Labs' world-wide Sales presence and the continued development of the company's next-generation product portfolio.  In addition, Halo Labs is [...]

iReceptor Plus to Offer Tools and Infrastructure for Sharing antibody and T-cell Receptor Sequencing Data from COVID-19 Patients

The international consortium, together with the AIRR Community, is now in the process of mapping the different initiatives producing data in the context of Coronavirus, to facilitate sharing data with laboratories and health institutions. RAMAT GAN, Israel – The international iReceptor Plus consortium is offering the technology tools and infrastructure developed within the EU-funded project, to [...]

Announcement of new and dedicated website for EMS-1000S EMS Viscometer

The Electromagnetically Spinning Viscometer (EMS viscometer) is a rotational viscometer. This new type of viscometer ​ is suitable to measure fluids with viscosities in the range of 0.1 to 1,000,000 mPa·s. ​ can automatically evaluate the temperature dependency of the viscosity in the range of 0 … 200°C within a very short time. ​ is capable of performing determinations [...]

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