Dutch Life Science Tools LUMICKS secures €20 million from European Investment Bank to accelerate drug discovery for cancer

Amsterdam-based LUMICKS signs €20 million venture debt with EIB to accelerate the development and launch of its new product, designed to advance immunotherapy development for cancer research. LUMICKS’ next generation high-throughput cell avidity platform aims to transform the drug discovery process by replacing traditional screening methods, expediting development for life-saving treatments, and improving reliability in [...]

MiLaboratories Secures Series A, Raising Total Funding to $10 Million to Revolutionize the World of Genomic Research

The San Francisco-based company with an R&D facility in Bilbao has also unveiled its Platforma.bio Software Development Kit, transforming how biologists analyze genomic data to drive drug discovery and advance adjacent fields in medicine. This latest financing bolsters the company’s efforts to transform computational biology on a global scale and empower researchers with innovative tools [...]

Chevron and Si-Ware Systems Announce Multiple R&D Projects for Improved Environmental and Operational Efficiency

MENLO PARK, CALIF. -- Si-Ware Systems and Chevron are pleased to announce a new collaboration encompassing several R&D projects. These initiatives will leverage NeoSpectra, Si-Ware’s advanced Near Infrared (NIR) spectral sensing technology, to address various operational challenges in the oil & gas industry. Among the R&D projects, on-site soil analysis for remediation and real-time crude [...]

Genedata Expressionist 18.5 Introduces Automated Characterization Workflows for Novel Therapeutics

Latest release offers an innovative characterization workflow for oligonucleotide therapeutics and expedites high-throughput peptide mapping data review. Basel, Switzerland — Genedata, the leading provider of enterprise software solutions for biopharmaceutical R&D, today announced the latest release of Genedata Expressionist®18.5, a platform for streamlining and automating characterization and quality monitoring of biotherapeutics using mass spectrometry (MS). [...]

MaxCyte Appoints Ali Soleymannezhad as CCO

MaxCyte Appoints Ali Soleymannezhad as Chief Commercial Officer Rockville, MD - MaxCyte, Inc., (Nasdaq: MXCT; LSE: MXCT), a leading, cell-engineering focused company providing enabling platform technologies to advance the discovery, development and commercialization of next-generation cell-based therapeutics and innovative bioprocessing applications, today announced the appointment of Ali Soleymannezhad as Chief Commercial Officer, effective as of September 11, 2024. In [...]

Waters New Bioseparations Tools Accelerate and Improve Development of RNA-based Vaccines and Therapies Using LC-MS Analysis

Waters new LC-MS grade reagents, enzymes, and software simplify large molecule RNA analysis to accelerate and improve development of mRNA vaccines, personalized cancer therapies, and innovative drugs for genetic disorders. Novel digestion enzymes deliver complete RNA sequence coveragei for more confident characterization, while new LC-MS-grade reagents increase sensitivity and improve detection accuracy of RNA components.ii New waters_connect™ MAP Sequence [...]

CALIBRE SCIENTIFIC ACQUIRES MRC

CALIBRE SCIENTIFIC ACQUIRES MRC, A US-BASED MANUFACTURER OF REAGENTS FOR THE ISOLATION AND ANALYSIS OF RNA AND DNA Calibre Scientific has acquired Molecular Research Center, Inc., Founded in 1989 and based in Ohio, USA, MRC is recognized for its expertise in RNA isolation technologies. MRC develops and manufactures reagents and kits used in molecular biology, biotechnology, [...]

CALIBRE SCIENTIFIC ACQUIRES INVITECH

CALIBRE SCIENTIFIC ACQUIRES INVITECH, A UK-BASED SUPPLIER OF IN-VITRO DIAGNOSTICS AND RESEARCH KITS Calibre Scientific has acquired Invitech Ltd., a UK-based supplier of in-vitro diagnostics and research kits to clinical laboratories, CRO’s, public institutions and universities in the British Isles. Their products include HIV/HCV test kits (including PoC tests), pregnancy tests, ELISA kits, Lyme Disease test [...]

Novonesis and Benchling Forge Long-Term Partnership to Power R&D Innovation

Following recent combination, Novonesis adopts Benchling to drive collaboration across 1,500 scientists SAN FRANCISCO and COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Today Benchling announced that Novonesis, the global biosolutions leader, has chosen Benchling as its digital R&D platform to power discovery, development, and testing for its R&D operations. Novonesis reaches over four billion people daily in 30 industries, with biosolutions that increase fuel efficiency, improve crop [...]

eLabNext Expands Platform with Danby Barcoding Integration, Enhancing Lab Inventory and Sample Management

eLabNext enhances its Digital Lab Platform by integrating Danby Barcoding’s solutions, offering laboratories improved inventory and sample management with industry-leading barcoding technology. eLabNext, an Eppendorf Group Company offering a flexible Digital Lab Platform, which combines a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), announced today that its platform is now able to [...]

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