IP Group plc (LSE: IPO) (“IP Group” or “the Group”), the developer of intellectual property-based businesses, notes that its portfolio company Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd (“Oxford Nanopore” or “the Company”) has announced that it has raised an additional £84.4 million of new capital from existing and new investors including International Holdings Company (IHC) and RPMI […]

 Expansion of Axol Bioscience’s service offering for pre-clinical drug discovery New services combine the Company’s iPSC-derived human cells and electrophysiological expertise with Axion Biosystems’ Maestro Pro MEA platform Cambridge, UK: Axol Bioscience (Axol), a biotechnology company specializing in the use of stem cell technology to manufacture disease-relevant cell-based assay systems to the drug discovery industry, today announced […]

Partnership Combines Twist’s Leadership in DNA Synthesis and Synthetic Biology with Neogene’s Expertise in Personalized Engineered T Cell Therapies SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & AMSTERDAM & NEW YORK–Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, and Neogene Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology […]

Akoya demonstrates ability to meet regulatory requirements for the development and production of medical-grade devices and related products MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — Akoya Biosciences, Inc., The Spatial Biology Company®, today announced that the company received ISO 13485:2016 certification for the design, development, production, distribution and installation of medical devices and related services. Achieving this ISO certification signifies […]

Automated Ionic® Cells to Pure DNA Low Input Kit consistently recovers up to twice the amount of high-quality nucleic acid from as few as 10 cultured or sorted cells Pleasanton, Calif. – Purigen Biosystems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation technologies for extracting and purifying nucleic acids from biological samples, today announced the launch of […]

To meet the Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed goals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DoD ) today announced an agreement with Cytiva, headquartered in Massachusetts, to expand the company’s manufacturing capacity for products that are essential in producing COVID-19 vaccines. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of […]

CANTON, Mass. — Universal Sequencing Technology Corporation (‘UST’), a developer of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, today is proud to announce a commercial relationship with Shanghai Bioscience Ltd. for the distribution of TELL-Seq WGS Library preparation kits in China. The TELL-Seq kit allows customers to transform their short-read DNA sequencer into a long-read DNA sequencer. The method […]

SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications today announced a new commercial agreement with JAN Scientific (JANSi), a specialist provider of imaging solutions for macromolecular crystallography. The distribution agreement for North America will enable SPT Labtech to promote JANSi’s plate hotels and scanning imagers for […]

The multiplex you have been waiting for! Amplification primers for eleven loci are multiplexed in three tubes. The three-tube design results in lower noise levels, better-balanced alleles, and higher quality compared to a one-tube approach. This means more reliable typing results. From DNA to results in only 1,5 days! Start your amplification on day 1 […]

Oxford Nanopore, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US CDC, Microsoft and Illumina collaborate with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to launch Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) $100 million four-year initiative will rapidly expand access to next-generation genomic sequencing tools and strengthen public health surveillance networks across Africa Oxford […]