CPI today announces the success of its CRD IUK project to develop a scalable, cost-effective purification process for adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), in partnership with Cobra Biologics and GE Healthcare Life Sciences. The new process will remove a significant bottleneck in the development of gene therapies, and enable these innovative products to be brought to market more quickly. AAVs have become the most [...]

Matthews, N.C. – CEM Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the instrumentation lines of Intavis Bioanalytical Instruments AG, with headquarters in Cologne Germany. The acquisition allows CEM to strengthen its product offering in the Life Sciences for proteomics, in-situ hybridization and particularly in the field of peptide synthesis. [...]

Combining expertise to jointly accelerate agricultural research NRGene’s AI technology expected to improve results in BASF soybean breeding projects Limburgerhof, Germany and Ness Ziona, Israel, October 29, 2019 – BASF and NRGene today announced a research collaboration that includes the adoption of NRGene’s cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology into BASF soybean research projects. The GenoMAGIC™ [...]

Technology Provides Pregnant Women Widespread NIPT Access WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc., (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that PerkinElmer Genomics will begin processing samples with the Vanadis® fully automated non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) system at its state-of-the-art CLIA and CAP-certified clinical laboratory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its PerkinElmer Lab Services affiliate [...]

13,000-square-foot training facility is the first East Coast location for Illumina, a California-based global leader in genomics BALTIMORE -- Illumina, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems, celebrated today the grand opening of its new training facility in the University of Maryland (UM) BioPark. The 13,000-square-foot Illumina Solutions Center provides training lab [...]

MANASSAS, Va. -- ATCC announced the first launch from a portfolio of exosomes (i.e., extracellular vesicles) derived from human cells to serve as reference materials or standards for a variety of research applications. The first two exosomes available to researchers are derived from the A549 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell line and hTERT-immortalized mesenchymal stem cells. [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- L7 Informatics, Inc., a leader in informatics solutions and services for genomic research organizations, is pleased to announce the USDA is now live on their Enterprise Science Platform (ESP). This move will empower better collaboration among all the research stakeholders and streamline research operations for the agency. L7's ESP represents a major step change [...]

IPSWICH, MA – New England Biolabs (NEB®) announces an expansion of its RNA depletion product portfolio to support more-sensitive an d cost-effective RNA sequencing via next generation sequencing platforms. The NEBNext RNase H-based RNA depletion protocol offers efficient and specific depletion of the abundant RNA species that interfere with the analysis of both coding and [...]

Introducing Lab Builder by LabArchives CARLSBAD, CALIF. LabArchives, the leading provider of cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs), released Lab Builder, a curated library of lab course content. Built upon the LabArchives notebook platform, Lab Builder is now available for all instructors using LabArchives Classroom Edition. LabArchives empowers instructors to build courses with more efficiency. For [...]

New reagent, in vivo-jetRNA® to tailor to pharmaceutical and research industry demand for mRNA technologies Strasbourg, France – Polyplus-transfection® SA, a biotechnology company that develops and sells innovative solutions for the delivery of nucleic acids in research, bioproduction and therapeutics, today announces the launch of in vivo-jetRNA®, an innovative injectable mRNA transfection reagent. in vivo-jetRNA can be used for vaccination [...]