GE Healthcare Life Sciences plans new manufacturing facility in Switzerland

GE Healthcare Life Sciences is building a new 7,360 square meter facility in Grens, Switzerland, in the new Signy Park, for the manufacture of single use kits for the Sepax and Sefia cell processing systems. The facility will meet global regulatory requirements and is expected to be fully operational in 2022. GE Healthcare Life Sciences is [...]

Qlucore moves into new business areas and expands Board

Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, is expanding into the area of precision medicine and precision diagnostics. In order to finance the expansion Qlucore has recently finalized a rights issue of 400k Euros and is pleased to announce two new members of the Board. Qlucore has created a software platform for [...]

Laurent Fullana appointed President of HORIBA France

HORIBA, a global leader in measurement and analysis solutions for research and industry, announces the appointment of Laurent Fullana as President of HORIBA France SAS, taking over from James Thépot. HORIBA France is part of the HORIBA Group based in Kyoto, Japan, which brings together several international companies. The Group provides a wide range of [...]

Berkeley Lights Launches Next Generation B Cell Workflow to Accelerate Therapeutic Antibody Discovery

Berkeley Lights launches its Plasma B Discovery 2.0 workflow, which enables broader B cell diversity screening to select better antibody lead candidates in just days EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Berkeley Lights, a leader in cell selection, launched its new product: Plasma B Discovery 2.0, an enhanced workflow for the company's Beacon® Optofluidic Platform. This [...]

New Thermo Scientific NanoDrop QC Software Simplifies Sample Quality Control for Industrial Users

Advanced features enable chemists to measure highly-concentrated samples without dilution HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific today released the Thermo Scientific NanoDrop QC Software for the Thermo Scientific NanoDrop OneC Spectrophotometer. Combined with the new software, the ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) microvolume spectrophotometer is designed to help materials science chemists quickly and accurately measure the concentration of different [...]

Investors ImmunoPrecise integrates SGI-DNA’s benchtop automated DNA printer to accelerate antibody discovery and manufacturing services

VICTORIA, SAN DIEGO, and UTRECHT – IMMUNOPRECISE ANTIBODIES LTD. (the “Company” or “IPA”) (TSX VENTURE: IPA) (OTC QB: IPATF) a provider of best-in-class therapeutic antibody discovery capabilities for the global industry, and SGI-DNA, INC., a company dedicated to developing transformative synthetic biology technologies and revolutionary DNA data storage solutions, today announced that IPA is integrating [...]

Three Industry Leaders Form New Venture to Create Scalable Manufacturing Platforms for Cell and Gene Therapies

Bio-Techne, Fresenius Kabi, and Wilson Wolf have formed a new joint venture company to provide dedicated support to researchers and biopharmaceutical companies in the field of cell and gene therapy. The joint venture will focus on providing scalable manufacturing technologies and processes needed to develop and commercialize new cell and gene therapies. Each of the [...]

Acquisition of INTEGRATED DYNAMIC ELECTRON SOLUTIONS, INC.

JEOL Ltd. (headquartered in Akishima, Tokyo; JEOL hereafter) acquired all shares of INTEGRATED DYNAMIC ELECTRON SOLUTIONS, INC. (headquartered in California, USA; IDES hereafter), an entrepreneurial venture specialized in technologies related to transmission electron microscopy (TEM hereafter), and made IDES its wholly-owned subsidiary. Background and Objective JEOL is driving continuous and sustainable growth by implementing initiatives [...]

Horizon Discovery grants a multi-product use license of its GS knockout CHO K1 cell line to NGM Bio

Cell line to be used to support research and development of biotherapeutics across therapeutic areas Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”, “the Company” or “the Group”), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, today announced that it will license its gene-edited Glutamine Synthetase [...]

Micromeritics Delivers Optimized Solution for Carbon Black Testing in accordance with latest ASTM Classification

Introducing the Dynamic Void Volume Analyzer (DVVA) II for automated, environmentally benign testing, for rubber compounding  Norcross, GA, USA -- Micromeritics Instrument Corp., a leader in material characterization technology, has developed an optimized, automated solution for customers looking to characterize carbon blacks in accordance with the newly revised ASTM D1765-18 Classification System for Carbon Blacks [...]

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