Merck today announced that the Canadian Patent Office has allowed Merck’s patent application directed to the use of paired CRISPR nickases in eukaryotic cells. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent covers paired Cas9 nickase technology to advance gene therapy and research, reduce off-target effects Marks company‘s 13th CRISPR patent overall Actively licensing CRISPR-related patents to interested parties Darmstadt, […]

Increasing the Understanding of Disease Proteins Recognized by Antibodies Should Accelerate Development of Optimized Drugs, Vaccines, and Diagnostics Across Diseases and Conditions from Cancers to Crohn’s and Transplant Rejections to Neurodegenerative Diseases SOUTH EASTON, MA / Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” and the “Company”), a leader in the development and sale of pressure-based instruments and platform technologies […]

WATA, March 1, 2019 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.(Tokyo:7272) has entered into a collaborative research project with Hubrecht Organoid Technology (HUB, the Netherlands), a leading organoid research center. Organoids are patient- derived cell cultures that mimic human organ function. The collaboration aims to accelerate technology development and jointly analyze business opportunities in this research field. Organoids […]

To radically simplify processes and increase productivity for researchers, RoosterBio Inc. has launched two bioprocess media products, RoosterCollect™-EV and EV Boost™, that supplement a scalable xeno-free manufacturing… Dependable EV or exosome collection that is tunable to workflows will accelerate product development. FREDERICK, Md. — To radically simplify processes and increase productivity for researchers, RoosterBio Inc. has […]

The Saphyr platform is being used to drive the emergence of digital cytogenetics – a streamlined, comprehensive and cost-effective approach to modernize the clinical detection of structural variations which are at the root of human disease SAN DIEGO — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a life sciences instrumentation company that develops and markets Saphyr, a platform […]

Series B financing will drive expansion of commercial operations and development of new microOrgan® platforms MAPLE GROVE, MN – StemoniX® Inc., a biotech company revolutionizing how new medicines are discovered, announced today that it has secured $14.4 million USD in Series B funding from a group of institutional and private investors. Brightstone Venture Capital led the financing and […]

VIENNA — Today Lexogen announced the launch of the CORALL Total RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit.  This new all-in-one library prep kit can be used for all whole transcriptome analysis applications such as differential expression, isoform quantification, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), and mutation detection. “RNA-Seq library preparation protocols are still plagued by biased read distribution. Especially start sites […]

Fully automated Magnis system delivers reproducible results for molecular laboratories SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced a new next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation system designed to easily run complex DNA sequencing assays with the press of a button. The fully automated Magnis NGS Prep System includes reagents and protocols that make it easy […]

— New Features Enable Sample to Sequencer in a Single Day – — Customer Presentations Demonstrate Benefit of Twist NGS Solutions in Neurology, Direct-to-Consumer Testing, Hereditary Disease and Liquid Biopsy – SAN FRANCISCO–Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced […]