MilliporeSigma Signs Commercial Supply Agreement with bluebird bio for Viral Vector Manufacturing
December 20, 2017
-- Aims to accelerate manufacturing of new treatments for broad range of serious diseases -- Underscores MilliporeSigma as a leading contract manufacturing organization and commercial provider of viral vectors for gene therapy BURLINGTON, Mass. -- MilliporeSigma today announced that it has signed a commercial supply agreement to manufacture viral vectors for bluebird bio, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for [...]
Juno Therapeutics and Thermo Fisher Scientific Announce CAR T Manufacturing Partnership
December 20, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Juno Therapeutics (NASDAQ: JUNO) and Thermo Fisher Scientific have entered into a partnership for Juno to use Thermo Fisher's Cell Therapy Systems (CTS) activation reagents in the manufacturing of its chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies. Under the seven-year nonexclusive licensing and supply agreement, Juno has obtained rights to use CTS Dynabeads CD3/CD28 [...]
Edinburgh Instruments Celebrates the Production of 1000th EPLED Laser
December 20, 2017
Edinburgh Instruments (EI) is pleased to announce its 1000th production of the EPLED picosecond pulsed diode lasers. Introduced in 2005, the EPLED lasers were designed as an excitation source to use with EI’s spectrometers, and continue to make improvements from year to year. Over the last 12 years EI has added new wavelengths, and as the [...]
Genedata Profiler Moves To High-Performance Clouds
December 20, 2017
Innovative enterprise platform for clinical cross-omics now also accessible via high-performance cloud computing services Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Basel, Switzerland Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for biopharmaceutical research and development (R&D), today announced that Genedata ProfilerTM, its leading enterprise software platform for omics-based profiling of patients in translational and clinical [...]
Thomas Scientific Has Acquired Phenix Research Products
December 20, 2017
To All of our Valued Customers, It is with great pride and enthusiasm that I announce that Thomas Scientific has acquired Phenix Research Products, Inc. and related assets. With this integration, Thomas Scientific will soon be better positioned to offer you, our customers, a quality extension of our already vast portfolio and service capabilities, to better meet your [...]
Announcement regarding acquisition of Crown Bioscience International (and making it a subsidiary)
December 20, 2017
TOKYO – JSR Corporation agreed with Crown Bioscience International (hereinafter “Crown”, Registration: Cayman Islands, CEO:Jean-Pierre Wery, a listed company in TPEx: 6554), which is a contract research organization (“CRO”) providing services to pharmas to support drug development in pre-clinical phases, to acquire 100% ownership of the Company and make it a subsidiary of JSR (the [...]
CERTUS™ to Bring In-House Salmonella Testing to Food Processing Plants
December 20, 2017
Research and development of the CERTUS Environmental Salmonella assay begins, providing an in-house solution to detect one of the world’s leading causes of food-borne pathogen illness. CHICAGO – Today, CERTUS™, innovators in food safety technologies, announced the expansion of its rapid food pathogen detection menu with the initiation of research and development of an Environmental Salmonella [...]
December 19, 2017
Palo Alto, California -- PREMIER Biosoft today announced the release of SimGlycan 5.90. The new version is about five times faster than the last version and allows for more accurate glycan identification with the updated algorithms. Additionally, SimGlycan now offers an intuitive data analysis automation interface. The key features included are: More Efficient LC-MS Peak Picking Algorithm: Accurate [...]
PerkinElmer Completes Acquisition of EUROIMMUN
December 19, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc., (NYSE: PKI) a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that the Company has completed its previously announced acquisition of EUROIMMUN Medical Laboratory Diagnostics AG. PerkinElmer originally announced its intent to acquire EUROIMMUN on June 19, 2017. About PerkinElmer PerkinElmer, Inc. is a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier [...]

