Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) announces that it has entered into a strategic cooperation with ChosenMed Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd (ChosenMed), a medical sequencing firm focused on personalized medicine and transformation healthcare in China. As part of the collaboration, IDT will provide its market-leading NGS enrichment products* for cancer sequencing to ChosenMed, and also help to enhance its scientific research...

Production of new anti-cancer drugs at ADC Bio’s North Wales manufacturing plant has been boosted following completion of a new cleanroom facility, designed and built by WHP. This forms a key part of ADC Bio’s construction of a new bioconjugation facility at its site in Deeside, North Wales, UK for the commercial production of antibody drug conjugates in response to global customer demand....

New high-performance, cost-effective PACE SNP assays will lower the cost and improve the reliability of SNP or indel screening. In the latest collaboration in a series to advocate for genomics research, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is teaming up with 3CR Bioscience (3CR) to widen access to quality custom solutions for genotyping screening. The partnership fuses IDT’s industry-leading oligo synthesis with...

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-owned BioTek Instruments for $1.165 billion. With anticipated tax benefits for Agilent, the net purchase price is expected to be approximately $1.05 billion. BioTek is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative life science instrumentation. Its comprehensive product line includes cell imaging systems, microplate readers, washers....

New facility brings rapid, reliable delivery of cell culture media to European customers. FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a global leader in the innovation, development, and manufacture of cell culture media, announced plans to open a third manufacturing facility located in Tilburg, Netherlands. The company currently has sites in the United States and Japan. Fujifilm’s investment in this project demonstrates its commitment to accelerate development in bioproduction and, cell and gene therapy markets...

The Max Planck Institute in Magdeburg is carrying out research to develop a future-proof energy storage system. LAUDA is providing the temperature control technology. Germany has set ambitious goals for the energy revolution: The proportion of renewable energy relative to overall energy consumption should be 80 per cent by 2050. With the expansion of wind energy, photovoltaics and other regenerative energy...

Thermo Fisher and Biognosys to develop industry-leading mass spectrometry-based workflows for the efficient analysis of proteins in complex biological matrices. 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...

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...

Cytel Inc., the leading global provider of innovative analytical software and services to the life sciences industry, and Axio Research, a premier provider of biostatistics to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, has announced that they have joined forces to create the largest global biometrics organization focused on delivering advanced analytical solutions for the life sciences industry....

Micromeritics Division Adds Formulaction’s Turbiscan TOWER to its Arsenal of Characterization Instrumentation. In its ongoing efforts to add the most advanced analytical equipment, Particle Testing Authority (PTA), a division of Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, has announced it has acquired Formulaction’s Turbiscan TOWER to help solve dispersion stability issues....

Antibodies.com, a digital marketplace that enables life scientists to purchase critical research reagents at cost-effective prices from the primary manufacturers, has announced that is has raised £400,000 in pre-seed financing. Antibodies.com enables researchers to source reliable antibodies, proteins, and immunoassays up to 5x faster and 75% cheaper than current methods....

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Newomics, a leading supplier of microfluidic emitters for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) applications, will combine their expertise and innovative technologies to develop and optimize sensitive, robust and reproducible microflow LC-MS workflows for the validation of disease biomarkers....

Hosted by Discovery Park and Pfizer UK, Medicines Manufacturing Excellence in the UK is focused on securing the future of the industry via activities such as digital transformation and skills development. With plans to become a centre of excellence in advanced manufacturing, these are issues of strategic importance for the Park. This plan is underlined by the announcement from Pfizer UK on a £5m investment in...

Metrohm Autolab and Arbin Instruments have combined their decades of experience to launch a new Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) solution that can easily be integrated into any battery testing program. Incorporating EIS into battery research and cell testing provides better insight into battery performance and degradation mechanisms, which improves the accuracy and reliability of the analysis....

Laboratory gas generation specialist, Peak Scientific, has relocated to a new bespoke office facility in Singapore. The move came following the global company’s recent plans for introducing increased capacity to support growth in its Asian markets. Peak Scientific first launched its office in Singapore with the aim to provide enhanced support to its Asian market through its sales, technical support and after-sales channels....

Concept Life Sciences, a knowledge-based provider of integrated discovery, development and analytical services, has unveiled a new, state-of-the-art clinical and niche commercial facility to support pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies throughout the development and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API)....

BD (Becton Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced the CE-IVDD certification of the BD COR™ System in Europe. The high throughput solution for infectious disease diagnostics sets a new standard in automation for molecular testing in core laboratories and other large centralized laboratories...

SP Scientific’s Genevac Series 3 HT-12 Centrifugal Evaporator has been cited in a recently published paper by theNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research,Inc.and theFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Researchas an important sample preparation tool in their extraction and pre-fractionation work to create a new natural product fractions library.

State-of-the-art premises increases operational footprint and will host Sysmex global R&D facility. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), A Sysmex Group Company, has celebrated the opening of its new facility in Cambridge, UK. The opening ceremony, which took place on 3rd June at the company’s new premises on the prestigious Cambridge Science Park, was attended by the Department for International Trade....