Novel bioinformatics-powered multi-guide design guarantees gene knockouts in any human-derived cell type, eliminating trial-and-error in CRISPR guide design REDWOOD CITY, California — Synthego, a leading genome engineering solutions company, today announced the launch of the Gene Knockout Kit v2. This is the only product that leverages a novel bioinformatics- powered multi-guide strategy to guarantee a gene knockout. […]

Chairman and CEO Kevin Hrusovsky to present at BIO and provide details about the HD-X launch and vision for continuing to pioneer disruption in healthcare with digital biomarkers Billerica, Mass. – Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ:QTRX), a company digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, announced that it issued approximately 2.2 million […]

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN) (“Applied DNA” or the “Company”), provides an update today on its accomplishments toward commercial-scale production to support global material traceability for companies declaring sustainability goals to be achieved by 2020. High on the consumer watchlist is the plastics recycling issue. Applied DNA’s CertainT® platform provides the evidence that […]

USPTO issues sixth CRISPR-Cas9-related patent to University of California for genome editing and modulation of gene expression BERKELEY, Calif. — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new patent (U.S. Patent No. 10,308,961) to University of California (UC) covering additional methods of using the CRISPR-Cas9 system. The unique methods form a toolset for both editing genes and […]

Cambridge: Qkine, specialist manufacturer of proteins for stem cell, organoid and regenerative medicine applications has closed a further round of investment. The £550k funding round was led by Cambridge Enterprise and five angel investors – all of whom followed initial seed investments made in April 2018. Joining the original investors is biotech entrepreneur and founder member of […]

The new LUNARISTM Reader is a modern and compact state-of-the-art laboratory device designed to address the different needs in academic and industrial environments The availability of two models provides for flexibility by accommodating a range of standard low- to high-throughput formats with readout times of less than 10 minutes for 96 wells Easy-to-use “load and read” […]

ANN ARBOR, MI—Cayman Chemical, an industry-leading supplier of bioactive lipids, analytical standards, and contract lipidomic services, announced today that it has acquired Matreya, LLC, a lipid biochemical company located in State College, Pennsylvania, with strengths in synthesis, extraction, and purification of natural products. Matreya stocks a wide selection of high-purity sphingolipids, phospholipids, fatty acids and […]

ATLANTA – ASMS 2019 – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Evosep, a leading provider of sample preparation technologies for protein-based clinical research, have entered into a collaboration to develop high-throughput clinical research proteomics workflows for profiling large plasma sample cohorts for proteomics, translational research and pharmaceutical applications. Leveraging the advanced omics technologies offered […]

Thermo Fisher and Biognosys to develop industry-leading mass spectrometry-based workflows for the efficient analysis of proteins in complex biological matrices   ATLANTA – ASMS 2019 – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Biognosys, a leading developer of next-generation proteomics solutions, will extend their long-standing collaboration to provide advanced data independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry-based […]

Innovative solutions integrate new data acquisition, analytical and smart algorithm capabilities   ATLANTA – ASMS 2019 – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, is accelerating the pace of innovation in the lab with the introduction of a new generation of intelligence-driven mass spectrometry instruments, workflows and software. The company will showcase […]