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, [...]

TOUCHLIGHT GENETICS ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH JOHNSON & JOHNSON INNOVATION HAMPTON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Touchlight Genetics Ltd., a biotechnology company developing a novel, synthetic DNA vector platform known as “doggybone” DNA, announced a collaboration with Janssen Biotech, Inc. to evaluate the application of doggybone DNA in the development of multiple genetic therapies, in the fields of [...]

San Diego, CA and Guangzhou, China, Wednesdy, October 24, 2018 – Agena Bioscience (Agena) and DaRui Biotechnolog (DaRui) announced today that the MassARRAY® System has formally passed the registration application of Guangdon Food and Drug Administration, becoming the first CFDA approved MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry system to directly detect nucleic acids for in vitro diagnostics in China. Commercially branded [...]

Affordable, Interactive Textbooks for Lab Students HOUSTON and CARLSBAD, Calif. LabArchives today announced a partnership with OpenStax designed to integrate OpenStax’s textbooks with LabArchives’ digital lab notebooks. OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University that publishes free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks used by over 2.2 million students this year. LabArchives, the most [...]

Michael Brobjer has been appointed new CEO of AroCell and will join the company December 8, 2018. Mr.Brobjer will provide AroCell with valuable expertise through his extensive experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Michael Brobjer has long experience from leading positions in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, such as Pharmacia & Upjohn and Biovitrum. He [...]