BioChek, the specialist company to offer innovative and user-friendly veterinary diagnostic tools, today announced the successful acquisition of BIOTECON Diagnostics, specialised in development and manufacturing of PCR-based solutions for food safety diagnostics. The merger creates a new, leading global player in veterinary and food safety solutions, targeting mainly the markets of meat, egg, dairy, infant […]

Zymo Research Corp, a California-based life science reagent company and Opentrons Labworks, Inc, makers of affordable and easy-to-use lab robotics, have partnered to create a robust engine for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing. As the COVID-19 crisis persists, the need for high-throughput, fast turn-around, and affordable testing platforms will become a matter of vital security to facilitate […]

Expediting Treatment of COVID-19 Patients and Enhancing Testing Resources for Caregivers in Oklahoma Workflow from Extraction through Real-Time PCR Using Fluidigm Microfluidics Technology and Reagents SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Fluidigm Corporation (Nasdaq:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced that OU Medicine, the University of […]

 Commercial Expansion of Tapestri Platform  Continues in North America SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. —  Mission Bio, Inc., the pioneer in high-throughput single-cell multi-omics and DNA analysis today announced a partnership with Agilent Technologies, a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. The two companies have entered a co-marketing agreement to drive adoption […]

Caption: BSL-3/-4 labs are welcome to apply for CytoSMART Lux2 live-cell imaging system. To download this image, click here. Eindhoven, The Netherlands – CytoSMART Technologies is to donate 100 mini live-cell imaging systems to researchers in high containment labs worldwide. Labs working to combat COVID-19 will benefit from this initiative, as CytoSMART aims to reduce the huge workload currently […]

Batavia Biosciences and Immutep utilize Horizon’s GS knockout CHO K1 cell line expression system to generate high yielding cell line for LAG-3 immunotherapy Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”, “the Company” or “the Group”), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, today announced that […]

SAN DIEGO and EMERYVILLE, Calif. —Ablexis, LLC, AlivaMab Discovery Services, LLC (“ADS”) and Berkeley Lights, Inc. today announced the rapid generation and recovery of sequences encoding a rich panel of human antibodies against the S1 spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Based on multiplex screening assays performed on the Beacon® platform, these SARS-CoV-2 S1 antibodies may be […]

The consortium led by The University of Oxford is fast-tracking clinical trials beginning in April 2020   PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced its participation in a consortium led by the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford (Oxford, England), to rapidly develop, scale-up and produce a […]

PHILADELPHIA – The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded Integral Molecular $1 million to enable the application of Integral Molecular’s technology platforms to aid in the discovery of vaccines and therapeutics to combat COVID-19. Integral Molecular’s Shotgun Mutagenesis Epitope Mapping platform precisely identifies where antibodies bind to their target proteins, and will be […]

MOBILion Systems, Inc. is partnering with Drs. Lance Wells and Michael Tiemeyer, pioneering researchers at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC), University of Georgia, to conduct COVID-19 glycan analysis using the company’s patented SLIM (Structures for Lossless Ion Mobility) separations technology. The new project aims to detail the glycosylation microheterogeneity in the spike glycoprotein that […]