PHC and Univercells Technologies Partner to Bring New Bioreactor Technology to Japan for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Development

TOKYO – PHCbi, the Biomedical Division of PHC Corporation and a global provider of laboratory and medical support equipment and services in the life sciences field, today introduced a new line of fixed-bed bioreactors manufactured by Univercells Technologies S.A. to the Japanese market. The scale-XTM bioreactors portfolio will enable scientists and researchers developing therapies in Japan [...]

Avantor® Enters into distribution agreement to supply Agilent Technologies’ Chemistries and Supplies Division Products in the U.S. and Canada

Enabling analytical chemistry workflow laboratories full access to Agilent Technologies’ Chemistries & Supplies Division (CSD) portfolio - focusing on chromatography columns, sample preparation products, chemical standards, and spectroscopy supplies through Avantor’s leading digital and direct channels. RADNOR, Pa. (USA) — Avantor, Inc., a leading global provider of mission critical products and services to customers in [...]

MGI Statement

We are pleased to see that the jury invalidated the claim of United States Patent No. 7,541,444 asserted by Illumina in the trial in the Northern District of California. This patent contained the broadest of all the asserted claims and had the longest remaining life of the five asserted patents. With this result, MGI may potentially [...]

Tetra Partner Network Expands to Meet Customer Demand for Movement to the R&D Data Cloud

BOSTON, Mass.  -- TetraScience, the R&D Data Cloud company, announced today the hiring of two life sciences experts to lead the growing Tetra Partner Network (TPN), reflecting a surge of customer interest and trust in the company and its open cloud network. Alan Millar, Ph.D., joins TPN as Vice President of Business Development, and Simon [...]

Oxford Nanopore announces technology updates at Nanopore Community Meeting

Nanopore Community Meeting, Oxford, UK  Highlights include release of new “Kit 12” and R10.4 flow cells for >Q20 (>99%) raw read and around Q30 (99.9%) Duplex sequencing accuracy, and the new PromethION P2 device, a palm-sized, high-throughput sequencer that delivers the most accessible low-cost, high-output Oxford Nanopore sequencer Oxford Nanopore has provided a technology update at its Nanopore Community Meeting, describing a range of product releases and upgrades. These [...]

Flamm Aerotec sells its property in Laage to biomedical company / Miltenyi Biotec aims to create new jobs at this site

On December 1, 2021, the production site in Laage formerly belonging to Flamm Aerotec GmbH will see a new owner moving in: Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG. With this acquisition, this globally operating biomedical company is expanding its capacities in the State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and is planning to create new jobs in the [...]

Genedata Biologics Platform Adopted by Mink Therapeutics to Streamline iNKT Cell Therapy Research and Development

Basel, Switzerland Genedata, the leading provider of enterprise software solutions for biopharmaceutical R&D, today announced that MiNK Therapeutics has partnered with Genedata to deploy its workflow platform, Genedata Biologics®, for support of their iNKT cell therapy pipeline programs. “Given their track-record of success, Genedata’s platform was the clear choice to support and integrate our full [...]

Flamm Aerotec sells its property in Laage to biomedical company / Miltenyi Biotec aims to create new jobs at this site

On December 1, 2021, the production site in Laage formerly belonging to Flamm Aerotec GmbH will see a new owner moving in: Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG. With this acquisition, this globally operating biomedical company is expanding its capacities in the State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and is planning to create new jobs in the [...]

IDBS Polar Insight Brings Advanced Data Analytics and Visualization to BioPharma Lifecycle Management

Guildford, UK — IDBS announced Polar Insight, bringing new advanced data analytics and visualization tools to the Polar BioPharma Lifecycle Management (BPLM) platform. Extracting valuable insights from process and quality data across the biopharmaceutical lifecycle is a time-consuming and error-prone process, requiring laborious manual work and multiple steps. IDBS Polar replaces paper records, spreadsheets and [...]

New High Fidelity CRISPR Cas9 Protein Reduces Off-target Effects for More Precise Genome Editing

Growing CRISPR genome editing portfolio supports researchers on path to future therapeutic applications CARLSBAD, Calif. -- For research applications requiring highly precise genome editing, including engineering CAR T cells and creating cellular models for disease discovery, the Invitrogen TrueCut HiFi Cas9 Protein* significantly minimizes off-target events while retaining maximum on-target editing efficiency. Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the [...]

Access IBO on Knowledge Center