£57.5k investment for quick, simple food safety tests using nanoparticles and antibodies Glasgow – The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) today announces funding of £57,500 to investigate a new technique to model antibodies bound to gold nanoparticles, allowing production of tests that are of a higher accuracy and reduced manufacture cost, which could be used to […]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — RTI International, a leading research institute, today announced a strategic collaboration with PierianDx, to help solve the problem of translating complex genomic data into actionable clinical insights to advance precision medicine. The collaboration includes investment and other strategic support to help advance PierianDx’s growth plan.  “Next-generation sequencing is a rapidly evolving scientific field […]

AUCKLAND, NZ – Bioinformatics software company Biomatters today announced it will host an exhibit at the Protein Engineering Summit (PEGS) in Boston to showcase new functionality in its Geneious Biologics software for antibody screening and discovery. Since its launch at the PEGS Boston conference last year, Geneious Biologics has not only extended the software’s Sanger-based […]

DARMSTADT, GERMANY Innovations include first-of-its-kind single-use tangential flow filtration capsule for bioprocessing of antibody-drug conjugates and monoclonal antibodies Tangential flow filtration capsule, final fill capsule filter and large-scale mixers designed with operators in mind New products reduce risk, improve speed and ease of use Darmstadt, Germany, April 17, 2018 – Merck, a leading science and technology company, today […]

The European Patent Office has granted a patent to m2p-labs of Baesweiler, Germany, for an innovative microbioreactor device to facilitate high-throughput bioprocess optimization in the life science market. 48 microbioreactors are placed on a standard microtiter plate which is about the size of a smart phone. This is key in order to optimize a multitude […]

World’s first commercially available platform for high-throughput single-cell DNA analysis expands capabilities to include HiSeq and new targeted panels CHICAGO.—Mission Bio, Inc., a leader in single-cell DNA analysis and precision genomics, today announced at the American Association for Cancer Research 2018 annual meeting multiple premier cancer centers have added the Tapestri platform to their laboratories. […]

Seattle, WA – RareCyte, Inc., a global rare cell detection and liquid biopsy company announces its newest product, CyteFinder HT in conjunction with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago April 15 through 18. CyteFinder HT, RareCyte’s newest member of the CyteFinder family enables high-speed whole slide imaging with up to […]

CHICAGO — One in 285 children born in the U.S. this year alone will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday1, yet, until recently, too little was known about the genetic alterations that drive their cancers to appropriately manage the disease. To address this global issue, Thermo Fisher Scientific today announces it has established the International […]

Comprehensive circulating tumor DNA reference materialS FOR NGS assay development, validation, and daily run controls MILFORD, Mass. — SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, announces two new upcoming additions to the Seraseq™ Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) portfolio of reference materials, ctDNA Complete™ and ctDNA Panels. These new reference […]

Sartorius will supply equipment for Penn State’s new Fermentation Facility in the university’s Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology. Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Penn State University have entered into a collaborative partnership to advance multidisciplinary teaching and research in biotechnology, the company and university announced in an April 16, 2018 press release. This long-term relationship […]