DARMSTADT, GERMANY Investment supports growing demand for biopharmaceutical research Builds capabilities with two new manufacturing and distribution centers in South Korea and India Accelerates Mobius® single-use manufacturing in China for biosimilars development Darmstadt, Germany – Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today announced an additional investment of $47 million to build a robust [...]

ATUM licenses Company’s Leap-In Transposase® Technology to Just NEWARK, Calif.--Dedicated to creating technologies and tools to improve peoples' lives, ATUM today announced a patent licensing agreement giving Just Biotherapeutics access to the company’s Leap-In cell line development tools. “We love everything about Just’s mission, and we are delighted that our Leap-In technology will be used to help democratize access [...]

WESTBROOK, ME – Artel, the leader in liquid handling quality assurance, is proud to announce that they have expanded their services for automated liquid handlers with the roll out of the new Accredited Calibration Service (ACS). Enhancing Artel’s existing services to meet customers’ evolving needs, ACS is an ISO 17025:2005 accredited service which provides accredited liquid [...]

Designed for the Immunotherapy market, the HANABI-L 2.0 Automated Lymphocyte Isolator enables increased throughput for higher productivity in providing high-quality sample preparation. Omaha – Nebraska: ADS Biotec, a global leader in development of automated instruments and consumables for use in cytogenetic, pathology and research laboratories has launched its newest system, the HANABI-L 2.0 Automated Lymphocyte Isolator. [...]

Milpitas Gate Scientific, Inc (www.gatescientific.com), a Silicon Valley based life science and diagnostic company, is bringing to market the world’s first hotplate stirrer system for wireless temperature sensing and management.  The smartSENSE Technology™ that is built into each stir bar will make it easier then ever for scientists and laboratory technicians to run tightly controlled [...]

CE-IVD labeled PAXgene® Blood ccfDNA tube will be available in Western Europe FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. and EYSINS, Switzerland -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial availability of the CE-IVD marked PAXgene® Blood ccfDNA tube within the European Economic Area and Switzerland (Western Europe). The plastic blood collection tube, which includes [...]

SALT LAKE CITY and PROVO, Utah — After decades of breakthrough work in a variety of analytical techniques utilizing capillary chromatography, Dr. Milton Lee has joined forces with Glen Mella (a long-time serial entrepreneur and successful venture-backed business executive) to form Axcend — a company dedicated to revolutionizing the liquid chromatography marketplace. Mella will serve as Chief Executive [...]

Real Endpoints plays 3rd party role introducing parties, helping craft structure, and will provide all analytics and financial reconciliation   SAN DIEGO, WELLESLEY, Mass. and WESTPORT, Conn. -- Illumina, Inc. and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care announced on February 1 a major new value-based contract (VBC) – one of the first of its kind between a [...]

Patents in South Korea and Israel cover integration of an external DNA sequence into the chromosome of eukaryotic cells Merck continues to support research with genome editing under careful ethical and legal standards Merck to license its CRISPR-related patents to interested parties Darmstadt, Germany – Merck, a leading science and technology company and leader in genome editing, [...]

Fleet to provide support for Gyrolab platform users in developing, transferring and optimizing assays   Uppsala, Sweden, and Hampshire, UK: Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, and Fleet Bioprocessing Ltd. (Fleet), an expert provider of contract immunoassay development services and immunoassay reagent manufacture, announced today [...]