Investment in new lab will support integrated optimisation of upstream and downstream process development Provides single source of expertise for scaled production of complex biologics for gene therapy and vaccines   Ajdovšcina, Slovenia: BIA Separations, a leading biochromatography development and manufacturing company, today announced the expansion of its services with the opening of a new upstream processing (USP) [...]

Cambridge, UK: Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, today introduced Cyto-Mine® Studio Software Suite, an updated software for its innovative Cyto-Mine Single Cell Analysis System. The software works alongside industry-standard robotic platforms and corporate databases to improve antibody discovery and cell line development workflows. Sphere Fluidics’ Cyto-Mine is an [...]

BEIJING -- Genecast Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (Genecast) announced it has just reached strategic partnership agreement with the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, Illumina. Genecast will seek to advance cancer diagnosis using Illumina's next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. Both companies are at the forefront of their fields – Illumina in gene sequencing and Genecast in [...]

-Streamlining the Gene Testing Processes to Standardize the Testing- Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu), Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (HQ: Tokyo, Japan; President & Representative Director: Shingo Kaneko) and RIKEN GENESIS Co., Ltd. (HQ: Tokyo, Japan; President & CEO; Naoto Kondo) have jointly developed the LW-100 Gene Measurement Analyzer (research use [...]

Virus research in BINDER chambers   A new laboratory that conforms to the very highest standards of biosafety recently opened at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. It is designed to provide a safe environment for diagnosing and conducting research into highly contagious and life-threatening viruses such as Ebola and Lassa. As part of their [...]

TORONTO -- Eurocontrol Technics Group Inc. (TSX Venture: EUO; OTCQB: EUCTF) (“Eurocontrol” or the “Company”), announces that it has entered into a share purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) with DYG Holdings Ltd. (the “Purchaser”), pursuant to which the Company has agreed to sell all of the shares of its Israeli subsidiaries to the Purchaser representing a [...]

SEATTLE. Bruker today announced the introduction of the new preclinical PET/CT Si78 scanner for whole-body molecular imaging at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (www.wmis.org/2018-wmic). It combines Bruker’s novel PET and outstanding micro-CT technologies in a single scanner operated by the multi-modality imaging software platform ParaVision™ 360. The PET/CT Si78 is addressing the latest needs of preclinical imaging scientists [...]

New York, New York – BelHealth Investment Partners, LLC (“BelHealth”), a New York-based healthcare private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired Gemini Bio-Products, Inc. (“Gemini” or the “Company”), a leading biological reagents manufacturer and supplier serving the scientific community across academic research and the biotechnology and biopharma industries. Founded in 1985 and headquartered [...]

UK set to be global leader in providing large-scale industrial access to Cryo-EM for drug discovery thanks to new collaboration. Thermo Fisher Scientific and Diamond Light Source are creating a step change for life sciences sector, a one-stop shop for structural biology and one of largest cryo-EM sites in the world. Close up sample loading [...]

Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon” or “the Company”), a global leader in gene editing and gene modulation technologies, today announces AstraZeneca has adopted its Edit-R™ crRNA libraries as part of AstraZeneca’s drive to establish a functional genomics discovery platform. AstraZeneca also joins the Genomics Discovery Initiative (GDI), a collaborative functional genomics screening [...]