The companies will collaborate on the discovery of novel monospecific antibodies to develop bispecific therapeutics targeting cytokine-receptor pathways with applications in dermatology, inflammation, and autoimmunity by leveraging Zymeworks’ Azymetric™ and EFECT™ therapeutic platforms LEO Pharma will retain the rights to develop two bispecifics for dermatology applications; Zymeworks will retain the rights to develop antibodies from [...]

Brings Total Company Investment in Nebraska to $340 Million in Two Years COLUMBUS, Neb. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, was joined today by Gov. Pete Ricketts and other state and local leaders to announce a $200 million investment in its facilities in Nebraska that will create 300 new jobs statewide. Today's announcement brings [...]

Philadelphia, PA—Purolite is happy to welcome Anna Luna to the Human Resources team. She will report to Karen Beck, Human Resources Manager. Formerly working at Solid Wood Cabinets in Bristol, PA, Anna is skilled and experienced in recruitment, employee training, benefits, payroll and employee engagement. Additionally, Anna has eight years recruiting experience with ACCU Staffing [...]

Albany, New York – XOS has announced the worldwide release of Petra Series Autosampler, an automatic sampler with sample tracking and continuous sample loading. The autosampler is an add-on feature to the Petra MAX and Petra 4294 analyzers launched by XOS in 2017. Visit xos.com/PetraAS to learn more about Petra Series Autosampler. Michael Palmer, Vice President of [...]

Vienna, Austria – RNA (ribonucleic acid) is one of the most important building blocks of life, and this molecule is researched in diverse biological disciplines. In 2016, the RNA Society launched the “RNA Salon” program to cultivate interactions between RNA researchers who might be regionally close but belong to various departments or institutes. This program provides [...]

Congenica, the global diagnostic decision support platform provider, today announced a key partnership with the UK’s Epilepsy Society to study the genomics of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The new collaboration aims to improve the clinical understanding, prediction and treatment of the devastating and unpredictable condition, which affects approximately 1 in 1,000 adult and 1 in [...]

Molecular Devices LLC, a leader in protein and cell biology technologies, today announced a new, exciting brand for its recently created biologics solutions business unit. The business unit combines the industry leading ForteBio label-free technology platform with Molecular Devices’ Biologics Biotherapeutics portfolio of products, and henceforth will be known as ForteBio. It is accompanied by [...]

We’re excited to make two major announcements today. We have closed a $110M Series C investmentround led by Founders Fund and we have added Dr. Matthew Porteus, a pioneer in cell therapies, to our advisory board. Since the start of our journey at Synthego, we’ve been committed to making state-of-the-art genome engineering tools accessible to researchers [...]

Innovative genomic and proteomic analysis platform for Immuno-Oncology and Immune Profiling Applications NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Proteona Pte. Ltd. has entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with the National University of Singapore (NUS) for Enhanced Single Cell Analysis with Protein Expression (ESCAPETM) RNA sequencing technology, an innovative multifaceted single-cell sequencing platform for simultaneous protein [...]

CHICAGO--CERTUS, innovators in food safety technologies, announces that its CERTUS System for accurate and rapid pathogen detection has achieved AOAC Performance Tested℠ certification (101802). As a result of rigorous validation studies required to achieve certification, AOAC validation provides small- to mid-sized food processing plants further assurance on the reliability and efficiency of CERTUS’s in-house environmental Listeria monitoring process, [...]