LANSING, Mich. — Neogen’s revolutionary Listeria Right Now™ environmental pathogen detection system has officially achieved AOAC approval, license number #081802. The approval adds another level of assurance to the food safety community, as the product has now been validated by one of the industry’s leading third-party accreditation groups. “It’s extremely gratifying to receive this approval,” said John Adent, […]

New acquisition rounds out Diagenode’s epigenomics profiling services platform DENVILLE, N.J. AND LIEGE, BELGIUM Diagenode today announced the acquisition of NXT-Dx, an established epigenetics service provider based in Gent, Belgium. NXT-Dx provides a broad variety of start-to-finish epigenetics services including a number of targeted DNA methylation assays using pyrosequencing or Next-Generation Sequencing and Illumina’s Infinium […]

Acquisition of US-based NuGEN expands Tecan’s dedicated solutions offering into new market segment of next-generation sequencing (NGS) reagents and increases overall recurring revenues NuGEN provides innovative NGS kits and genomic sample prep reagents for the fastest growing field within the genomics area NuGEN to become part of Tecan’s Life Sciences Business, leveraging Tecan’s global presence and […]

Dundee, UK: Ubiquigent Limited, a company focused on enabling and supporting ubiquitin system targeted drug discovery, announced today that it was awarded a new grant from Innovate UK as part of its Investor Accelerator Pilot to support a project entitled; ‘The development of novel compounds to seed a neurodegeneration drug discovery programme’.  The programme provides simultaneous […]

Merck today announced that the Australian Patent Office has allowed the company’s patent application for the use of paired CRISPR nickases. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent covers paired Cas9 nickase technology to reduce off-target effects, advance gene therapy and research Expands company’s foundational CRISPR cutting and integration IP necessary to correct genetic defects in gene therapy patients […]

Ft. Collins, CO (Fort Collins, CO) – KromaTiD, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Human Genome Research Institute. The SBIR program enables scientific excellence and technological innovation by incentivizing small businesses to engage in commercial research and development. This award will fund the […]

Porvair Science has extended its BactiGrowth range of specially packaged plates designed to enable high yield growth of bacteria, yeast, mammalian or insect cell lines. Precisely manufactured to conform to the automation-friendly ANSI/SBS format, BactiGrowth plates are available in plate formats from 24- through to 384-well and well volumes from 300 µl to 10 ml […]

Incorporates Cygnus Technologies’ gold standard reagents Ready-to-use immunoassay kit designed to increase productivity Uppsala, Sweden. Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, today introduced Gyrolab® CHO-HCP E3G Kit for impurity analysis in the CMC (chemistry manufacturing and controls) – bioprocess workflow of biotherapeutics. The new […]

Empirical Bioscience announced today that they have introduced the EB Pure Agarose Gel Extraction Kit. The set is designed to quickly isolate small DNA fragments (70 bp to 20 kb) from Agarose Gel in just 15 minutes. The system’s high-binding configuration specifically, but reversibly, binds DNA or RNA under optimized conditions allowing proteins and other […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Bio-Techne has introduced a new range of Tocris Bioscience-branded stem cell research compounds produced to cGMP standards, which are suitable for use as ancillary materials in the development of stem cell therapies. Bio-Techne has a highly-qualified team who have full control over the cGMP process, meaning we can ensure: a quality assured manufacturing system, […]