Samsara Therapeutics establishes Scientific Advisory Board
Michael Schlossmacher, Susan Perlman, Ed Tate and Christian Behl to help advance development of neurodegeneration and rare genetic disease therapeutics.
Avacta announces AffiDX® SARS-CoV-2 antigen lateral flow test receives CE mark for consumer self-testing
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer therapies and powerful diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms, announces that the AffiDX® SARS-CoV-2 antigen lateral flow test has received a CE mark for use as a consumer self-test in the UK and EU.
Insightful Science acquires Protein Metrics to expand its R&D solution to include proteomics
San Diego, CA, 21 December 2021: Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announced today that it has completed the transaction to acquire Protein Metrics Inc., a leading provider of biopharmaceutical protein characterization and proteomics analysis software. The acquisition expands the Company’s R&D value chain to widen the biopharmaceutical…
Bio-Rad introduces Bio-Plex Pro Human SARS-CoV-2 Variant Neutralization Antibody Assays
HERCULES, Calif.–Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of the Bio-Plex™ Pro Human SARS-CoV-2 Variant Neutralization Antibody Assays, for research use only (RUO). The assays allow scientists to measure neutralizing antibodies quickly and efficiently against wild-type and significant…
Avacta announces AffiDx SARS-CoV-2 antigen lateral flow test detects the Omicron variant
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer therapies and powerful diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms is pleased to announce that the AffiDX® antigen lateral flow test has been shown to detect the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in clinical samples.
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific opens European manufacturing facility
SANTA ANA, California, December 8, 2021: FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., today announced that its new manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands is now open and fully operational. The facility provides state-of-the-art Life Science manufacturing and joins locations in the U.S. and Japan to enable increased production capacity of cell culture media products; acting as a hub for…
Sixfold Bioscience completes $10.5M USD (£7.8M GBP) seed financing
London, UK, 02 Dec 2021: Sixfold Bioscience (Sixfold), a company harnessing computation and advanced chemistry to design RNA therapeutic delivery systems, today announced it has raised a total of $10.5 million USD (£7.8 million GBP) in its seed funding round. The funding will support the continued development of the Company’s Mergo® RNA therapeutics delivery platform.
Avacta announces FDA approval of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AVA6000
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer therapies and powerful diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms, is pleased to announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AVA6000. This will allow the Group to expand its Phase I clinical…
Rebeca Sanchez Sarmiento joins Insightful Science and Dotmatics as Chief Financial Officer
Appointment brings extensive financial industry experience to drive global growth and build corporate value of newly combined organization that is aiming to make the world a healthier, cleaner and better place to live.
Bio-Rad introduces StarBright UltraViolet 400 Dye for flow cytometry
StarBright UltraViolet 400 Dye offers maximal brightness and narrow excitation and emission profiles for precise resolution.
CrestOptics acquired by Apposite Capital LLP to enable rapid commercial growth and innovation in bioimaging
Investment from Apposite Capital LLP will accelerate CrestOptics’ commercial expansion into new markets globally, and enable further development of innovative cell imaging products.
Insightful Science acquires LabArchives to expand its electronic lab notebook and LIMS solutions for scientific discovery
San Diego, CA, 10th November 2021: Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announced today that it has completed the transaction to acquire LabArchives.
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific expands its Armstrong R&D Cell Culture Center of Excellence to accelerate new product development
SANTA ANA, California, November 10, 2021: FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in providing cell culture solutions for Life Science and Medical markets, today announced the expansion of its Armstrong R&D Center of Excellence at its headquarters in California. This expansion marks an ongoing commitment to the advancement of discovery research, bioproduction, cell and gene therapy,…
BioNet and Sartorius’ company BIA Separations collaborate on production process development of mRNA vaccines
Ajdovšcina, Slovenia & Bangkok, Thailand, 02 November 2021: BioNet, a leading biotech company manufacturing genetically engineered vaccines, and BIA Separations, now part of Sartorius, a leading biochromatography development and manufacturing company, today announced the successful development of an optimized mRNA manufacturing process.
Bio-Rad launches its CFX Opus Dx real-time PCR detection systems for in vitro diagnostics
HERCULES, Calif.––Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of the CFX™ Opus 96 Dx System and the CFX™ Opus 384 Dx System, real-time PCR detection systems that have been listed with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IVD testing and that meet the CE-IVD requirement for IVD use in…
H.E.L Group releases latest update to labCONSOL automation software with enhanced calibration and process safety functionality
London, UK, 18 October 2021: H.E.L Group (H.E.L), a global developer and manufacturer of innovative laboratory tools for process optimization, safety, and scale-up, today announced the release of the latest version of its laboratory automation software, labCONSOL™ 1.2. The new functionality included in the update further enhances the intuitive user experience to increase lab productivity and…
Dotmatics partners with RockStep Solutions to provide an integrated solution for digitalized in vivo drug discovery
Bishop’s Stortford, UK, and Portland, ME, USA, 12 October 2021: Dotmatics Ltd, an Insightful Science company that provides leading-edge scientific informatics software to drive the automation of lab data workflows and accelerate critical R&D discovery, today announced a partnership with RockStep Solutions (RockStep), a developer of software tools for managing data and operations for in vivo…
seqWell appoints new commercial team, led by Chief Commercial Officer Steve Smith
Beverly MA, US, 05 October 2021: seqWell, a global provider of next-generation sequencing (NGS) library technologies based on its proprietary plexWell™ multiplexing platform, today announced five appointments to its commercial team.
CrestOptics introduces DeepSIM super resolution confocal microscope module
Rome, IT, 04 October 2021: CrestOptics SpA, a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, today announced the launch of DeepSIM, a super resolution module designed to enhance the imaging capabilities of confocal microscope systems. The DeepSIM module can be used with Crest’s X-light V3 spinning disk, or alternative…
Bio-Rad launches IgA and IgM SARS-CoV-2 Bio-Plex pro immunoassay panels to study COVID-19 antibody response
HERCULES, Calif.–September 30, 2021: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of the Bio-Plex™ Pro Human IgA and IgM SARS-CoV-2 panels to detect IgA and IgM antibodies against four SARS-CoV-2 antigens. The panels are for research use only (RUO).
Gyros Protein Technologies introduces Gyrolab AAV9 Titer Kit to support AAV-based cell and gene therapy production
Uppsala, Sweden, 30 September 2021: Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and a leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, today announced the introduction of Gyrolab® AAV9 Titer Kit for rapid determination of physical titer in adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) vector-based cell and gene therapy manufacturing.
Avacta announces achievement of pre-clinical development milestone in LG Chem Life Sciences partnership
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative cancer therapies and powerful diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer® and pre|CISION™ platforms, is pleased to announce that a pre-clinical development milestone has been achieved in the multi-target therapeutics development partnership with LG Chem Life Sciences, the life sciences division of the…
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific begins customer qualification of European manufacturing facility
SANTA ANA, California: FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc. today announced that it completed construction and started the commissioning phase of its new manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The commissioning milestone marks the beginning of validating the facility and equipment in anticipation of full operations starting in late 2021. The new facility will join manufacturing locations…
ELRIG UK launches equality, diversity, and inclusion guiding principles at Drug Discovery 2021
York, UK: The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK today announced it will launch its equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) guiding principles at Drug Discovery 2021. The principles were developed with the support of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Science and Health (EDIS), a coalition of organisations working to improve EDI within the science and health…
Dotmatics appoints Mike McKee as new president to lead the industry transformation to data-driven scientific research
Highly accomplished technology CEO appointed to accelerate the company’s immense scale and capitalise on unprecedented momentum.