Accelerates development and manufacture of Acticor’s antibody fragment that treats ischemic stroke Billerica, Massachusetts — MilliporeSigma, today announced that it will provide its Provantage® End-to-Endservices to Acticor Biotech SAS for accelerated development and manufacturing of Acticor’s antibody fragment used for the primary treatment of ischemic stroke. MilliporeSigma’s Provantage® End-to-End solution is a comprehensive suite of products and services enabling biopharmaceutical [...]

Desktop Genetics and LGC have been awarded funding from SynbiCITE, the UK’s national center for the commercialization of synthetic biology, to develop screening and validation tools for functional genomics, cell line engineering and synthetic biology. Desktop Genetics and LGC will develop a novel pipeline for rapid assessment of CRISPR-mediated editing efficiencies. They will assess and develop two [...]

Choose New and Improved Resprep SPE Cartridges for Complete Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbon Fractionation Resprep EPH fractionation SPE cartridges offer method-specific performance for extractable petroleum hydrocarbon (EPH) analysis of soil and water samples. These new and improved solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridges completely separate aliphatic and aromatic compounds into distinct fractions, and they are guaranteed to produce [...]

BILLERICA, Mass. -- The International Phenome Centre Network (IPCN), founded by Imperial College London and more than a dozen international partners in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, the US, and the UK (www.phenomenetwork.org), was launched officially this week at the 2016 World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) conference in Doha, Qatar.  This global network is a critical link between leading research centers across [...]

 Product offers smaller sample volumes and four times higher throughput than traditional assays Billerica, Massachusetts — MilliporeSigma today launched the MILLIPLEX® MAP Human High Sensitivity cytokine panel for faster and more cost-effective human cytokine assays. The new panel allows researchers to achieve four times higher throughput than traditional assays while using smaller sample sizes. [...]

CloudLIMS.com, a class-leading provider of Laboratory Management solutions, has released a new version of its SaaS LIMS, CloudLIMS Lite. Wilmington, Delaware CloudLIMS.com, a class-leading provider of Laboratory Management solutions, has released a new version of its SaaS LIMS, CloudLIMS Lite. CloudLIMS Lite helps biobanks, clinical, research and testing laboratories keep track of their biospecimens, right [...]

IP Group plc (LSE: IPO) ("IP Group" or "the Group"), the developer of intellectual property-based businesses, is pleased to note that portfolio company Genomics plc ("Genomics") and Oxford University's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics ("WTCHG") confirmed they have sequenced and analysed multiple human genomes using hand-held technology from portfolio company Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd ("Nanopore"). Using [...]

Corporate logo and brand identity are reflective of Avantor’s new position as a growing, global supplier of high-purity life sciences and advanced technologies materials Center Valley, PA (USA) – Avantor® Performance Materials, LLC., introduced a new corporate logo and visual identity today. The change comes two months after Avantor merged with NuSil™ Technology to form a [...]

Pleasanton, CA Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY)today announced an expansion of their distribution alliance with the life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, to now include the qPCR and endpoint PCR portfolios1 from Kapa Biosystems.  Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the US and Canada.  Kapa Biosystems was previously acquired by Roche [...]

With 35 million biospecimens, cohort biobank will be one of the world’s largest Franklin, Mass. and Reno, Nev. – Hamilton Storage and Hamilton Robotics announced today that they will build automated sample storage and liquid handling systems to be used in the biobank infrastructure for Mayo Clinic, which was awarded funding by the National Institutes of [...]