INSTEM Announces Extension of Research Collaboration Agreement with U.S. FDA to 2031
March 19, 2026
Instem, a global leader in SaaS solutions for life sciences R&D, today announced a 5-year extension of its Research Collaboration Agreement (RCA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (Q)SAR models must be continually updated and validated to remain relevant as new compound classes and chemistries advance through pharmaceutical drug development. At the same [...]
King’s College London Expands Manufacturing Capability with scale-X carbo Bioreactor
March 18, 2026
The Gene Therapy Vector Facility at King’s College London announced the addition of the Univercells Technologies’ scale-X™ carbo bioreactor to its GMP manufacturing portfolio The Gene Therapy Vector Facility at King’s College London announced the addition of the Univercells Technologies’ scale-X™ carbo bioreactor to its GMP manufacturing portfolio, further strengthening our capabilities for adeno associated [...]
Discover the Distek Online Instrument Configurator
March 18, 2026
North Brunswick, NJ – Distek, Inc., a leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical laboratory instrumentation, announced the launch of its new Online Instrument Configurator, a web-based tool designed to simplify instrument configuration and accelerate quote requests for pharmaceutical laboratories worldwide. The tool enables users to build detailed instrument configurations and submit them directly to Distek as a quote [...]
March 18, 2026
LONDON, UK -- Touchlight, in collaboration with New England Biolabs (NEB®), announces the launch of the EnClose™ Cell-free dbDNA™ Synthesis Kit, a new benchtop solution enabling rapid enzymatic production of Touchlight’s proprietary doggybone DNA™ (dbDNA™). This linear, covalently closed, double-stranded DNA format offers researchers a fast, cell-free alternative to traditional plasmid DNA, supporting the growing demand for nucleic acid [...]
Cenevo’s Labguru Drives Digital Lab Transformation for Pace® Life Sciences
March 18, 2026
London & Minneapolis – Cenevo’s Labguru platform is delivering a comprehensive solution to centralize documentation processes at Pace® Life Sciences, a U.S.-based contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and full-service good manufacturing practice (GMP) analytical laboratory service provider. Labguru is an all-in-one cloud-based laboratory data management research-to-production platform, combining an electronic lab notebook (ELN), inventory management, registration, laboratory information management [...]
Illumina and Labcorp expand collaboration to broaden access to precision oncology testing
March 18, 2026
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced an expanded collaboration to advance precision oncology through innovative applications of next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions across the healthcare ecosystem. Projects are expected to include promoting equitable access to cancer biomarker testing by bringing it [...]
Basecamp Research Selects PacBio HiFi Sequencing to Power Trillion Gene Atlas Initiative
March 18, 2026
PacBio’s Revio system and SPRQ-Nx chemistry to enable an order-of-magnitude expansion of HiFi metagenomic sequencing for scaling AI-designed therapeutics MENLO PARK, Calif. -- PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing technologies, today announced that Basecamp Research, a frontier AI lab for therapeutic design, has selected PacBio HiFi sequencing on the Revio® system [...]
March 18, 2026
Baylor selects the Nautilus Voyager™ Platform, now available through Early Access Program, for development of a first-in-class computational multi-omics toolkit • NIH-funded project leverages collaborators’ expertise in single-molecule proteomics and protein isoform quantification to advance high-resolution cancer isoform analysis SEATTLE -- Nautilus Biotechnology, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAUT), a company pioneering single-molecule proteome analysis, today announced Baylor [...]
March 18, 2026
Software enhancements strengthen compliance support with better traceability, audit readiness, and operational efficiency SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Picarro Inc., a global leader in high-precision gas concentration analytical solutions, today announced the launch of the PI2124 Analyzer, an advanced solution for vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) monitoring in pharmaceutical and other regulated manufacturing environments. The new analyzer continuously measures [...]
March 18, 2026
Roche’s Ionify® steroid assays join its Vitamin D Total test as the latest mass spectrometry tests to receive CLIA ‘moderate complexity’ classification. The expanded steroid menu brings the sensitivity and specificity of mass spectrometry – the diagnostic gold standard – into routine clinical laboratories. The CLIA classification broadens access to advanced testing through a fully [...]

