Evry, France, and Bergisch Gladbach, Germany – Genethon, a leader in the field of gene therapy treatments for rare diseases, and Miltenyi Biotec, a global front-runner in cell processing and related technologies in cell therapy, have announced the execution of an exclusive license to the patents and trademarks for the development and commercialization of Vectofusin-1® [...]

New Product Launches Planned for Biotech Week Boston, Oct. 4-7 PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. - At next week’s first annual Biotech Week Boston (October 4-7, 2016), Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, will officially launch new production-scale technologies and preview upcoming technologies that enable fully continuous biopharmaceutical processing using single-use formats. These [...]

The Alliance Calls for Innovative Solutions in Chromatography Technology Ely, UK: Ellutia, world-renowned for gas chromatography instruments and solutions, will work with Prism Analytical Technologies to distribute & install MAX™, a new analyser that measures complex samples by combining the separation power of chromatography with the quantification power of absorption spectroscopy, throughout Europe. The technology [...]

Epigenetics-based research tools company Active Motif, Inc. today announced it has entered into a technology development partnership with Swift Biosciences, a leader in sample and library preparation for next generation sequencing (NGS). The two companies have partnered to deliver technical advancements in ChIP-Seq workflow, a foundation application for epigenetics. Samples used in the ChIP-Seq workflow [...]

Companies Collaborate in Their Aim to Accelerate Accurate Diagnosis of Cancer for Patients in China SANTA CLARA, Calif., and GUANGZHOU, China – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Burning Rock today announced they have signed an agreement under which Burning Rock will develop cancer diagnostics in China based on the Agilent SureSelect target enrichment system. [...]

Cellular Dynamics International Launches Opsis Therapeutics to Develop Cell Therapies for Treatment of Retinal Diseases MADISON, WIS – Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CDI), a FUJIFILM company and the leading developer and manufacturer of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) products, today announced a new venture, named Opsis Therapeutics. Formed on July 31, Opsis Therapeutics is focused [...]

New York: MatriTek, Inc., a product-oriented biotechnology company specializing in tissue-specific cell culture biomaterials, announced today the launch of commercial production of novel extracellular matrix (ECM) biomaterials for biomedical research. MatriTek’s proprietary TissueSpec™ platform technology enables scientists to culture cells in a physiologically relevant extracellular microenvironment and is coupled with the company’s core expertise in [...]

Inaugural Council Members Include Practitioners from The Broad Institute, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Texas at Austin PALO ALTO, Calif. - Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, today [...]

Columbus, OH – GenomeNext, LLC, a leader in genomic data management and integrated analysis, announced today the launch of Olympus; a powerful, innovative platform designed to simplify and automate ‘Omics-based analysis and interpretation into a single, consolidated solution. The Olympus Platform eliminates the need to invest in, architect and manage multiple, fragmented solutions required to [...]

Boston, MA — SOLA Biosciences LLC (SOLA) announced a Distribution Agreement with Cosmo Bio Co., LTD. (COSMO), one of Japan’s leading suppliers of reagents for biochemical research and clinical diagnostics along with apparatuses. COSMO provides the most up-to-date products and technical information available from world-class manufacturers, laboratories, research institutes, life-science education and testing organizations throughout [...]