Eurofins Genomics U.S. launches new SARS-CoV-2 plasmid DNA controls and increases its capacity to produce probes and primers, all of which being key components of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing  LOUISVILLE, KY — Eurofins Genomics U.S. announces that, together with its subsidiary BlueHeron Biotechnology, it has launched a series of SARS-CoV-2 plasmid DNA controls that can be […]

CINCINNATI — Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO), announced today the launch of several novel recombinant antigens critical for the development of antibody tests for COVID-19. Since the emergence of COVID-19 outbreaks in January, Meridian has supported molecular diagnostic companies with critical master mixes and enzymes for their COVID-19 Molecular Diagnostics tests.  To meet the massive need for […]

Turin-Italy and Utrecht-the Netherlands — The ultra-modern Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences of the University of Turin has acquired MILabs cutting edge multi-modality VECTor6CT molecular imaging system. The high-resolution and ultra-sensitive PET, SPECT and CT modalities will be used by UNITO to optimize the targeting vectors of novel probes for disease diagnostics and […]

IDT’s new panel includes the Iowa Black-ZEN quencher probe technology recently approved for use in existing CDC EUA testing protocol Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a leading comprehensive genomics solutions provider, announced a significant expansion of its coronavirus product line with the addition of primer-probe kits equivalent to the primer and probe ratios described in the WHO-Charité/Berlin (“WHO”) […]

Freshly isolated human chondrocytes exhibit a natural, biologically relevant phenotype during in vitro expansion SAN ANTONIO, TX – Investigators exploring chondrocytes in vitro have the ability to study a more biologically-relevant phenotype with CELLvo™ Human Articular Chondrocytes from StemBioSys. Isolated from healthy donors, CELLvo™ Chondrocytes are available to scientists before being cultured at passage 0, or […]

Special licensing terms enable rapid access to CHOSOURCE platform to streamline SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic development and production processes Supports global efforts to develop therapeutics, diagnostic assay components and vaccines to combat the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon”, “the Company” or “the Group”), a global leader in the application of gene […]

Merck and The Jenner Institute today announced that the Jenner Institute has laid the foundation for large-scale production of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Recently developed manufacturing platform allows large-scale manufacturing Joint team reduced process development time to two months from a year – a critical step to manufacturing COVID-19 vaccine at […]

MGI has announced a major upgrade for DNBSEQ-G50 with improvements to flexibility, turnaround time and performance. The original FC (Flow Cell) with 300M total reads is upgraded to FCL (Flow Cell Large) with 500M total reads, and a new FCS (Flow Cell Small) has been released with total reads of 100M. In addition, a longer […]

Bournemouth, UK and Newark, CA, USA – Solentim, a global leader in cell line development (CLD) instrumentation, and bioengineering company ATUM, today announced that Solentim will bundle access to the Leap-In Transposase® platform together with the Solentim VIPS™ single cell cloning instrument. Leap-In Transposases enable stable high titer clones to be isolated whilst screening orders of magnitude fewer […]

Carlsbad, CA – On February 26, 2020, Active Motif announced the successful isolation of antibodies from patients in China recovering from 2019 Coronavirus related pneumonia (COVID-19). The full suite of antibodies is now available for research as well as commercial applications. “The discovery and expression of a full human antibody against the COVID-19 virus is […]