Pharmaceutical development and clinical manufacturing expert, Velesco Pharma, is set to triple its clinical manufacturing capacity with the purchase and fit-out of a new, state-of-the-art facility in Wixom, Michigan. This facility will be supported by Velesco Pharma’s existing QC release and stability testing laboratory also located in Wixom...

Batavia Biosciences has signed a license agreement to utilize Horizon Discovery’s GS knockout CHO K1 cell line expression system for the development of high yield antibody-expressing cell lines. Initially, Batavia will deploy the system for production of a potent Zika virus neutralizing antibody, working in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center and IDBiologics...

Cell and gene therapy manufacturing consultancy eXmoor pharma has announced a strategic collaboration with Karoo CGT to accelerate the huge potential of UK gene therapies coming out of academia. The funding gap between academic research and an investable proposition after Phase I/II trials is well reported. Karoo is building the expertise and infrastructure necessary to provide a fully integrated service...

Alongside this accreditation, ReAgent has also launched a new biological reagent manufacturing service supplying bespoke reagents, including biological buffers, bioprocessing reagents, and in vitro diagnostic reagents. With the ability to manufacture different types of biological reagents, including but not limited to reagents for use in medical devices...

This new report provides market data and insights for 11 categories of portable analytical instrumentation. Its contents will provide detailed qualitative and quantitative data to those with a vested interest in the market for portable or handheld analytical instruments. The portable instrumentation market was $1.4 billion in 2018 and is expected to grow by 4.4% over the next five years....

Merck, a leading science and technology company, presented Professor David Alsteens (33), Catholic University of Louvain (UCLovain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium with the 2019 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award ceremony took place during the analytical conference Euroanalysis at Istanbul University in Turkey. “With his groundbreaking investigations revealing the molecular mechanisms established by viruses to hijack the cellular barrier and enter the cell....

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Cedars-Sinai, a leading nonprofit academic healthcare organization, have entered into a collaboration to develop a pathway to precision medicine through the development of robust, reliable and sensitive liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based workflows for clinical research applications....

The Conference Agenda for the 3rd edition of the GCC Forensics Conference, organised by Clarion Events, has been released. Following the unprecedented success of the first two editions of the event, there was an overwhelming response to the Call for Abstracts and the agenda is packed full of first-rate speakers from around the world....

Game-changing instrumentation and presentations spanning new regulations to artificial intelligence feature in the UK’s most forward-thinking laboratory event. Visitors to Lab Innovations 2019 will be able to discover ways to improve workflow efficiency, benefit from advances enabled by the digital age, and make sustainable procurement decisions that both support the environment and also save money....

BioCity, the pioneering life science incubator and business collective, has announced investment in precision medicine biotech, Kinomica Ltd., via the Innovate UK Precision Medicine Investment Accelerator. Spun out from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Kinomica Ltd is an early stage precision medicine biotech developing novel technologies for companion diagnostics...

Agilent Technologies, Inc. has announced it has completed the acquisition of BioTek Instruments, a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative life science instrumentation. The BioTek acquisition expands Agilent's growing presence and expertise in cell analysis and strengthens the company's position in the large and growing immuno-oncology and immunotherapy areas....

Turn your October into one to remember with an extraordinary day out to the world's greatest science festival, and a visit to the UK's largest exhibition for the entire laboratory community! Ever wanted to learn how to speak gorilla or wondered if it was possible to beat your genes and stop the aging process? Keen to find out if gaming is really bad for us....

Particle Testing Authority (PTA), a division of Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, has stepped up its Pore Analysis Capabilities. The Company has announced those efforts include capillary flow porometery (CFP) and liquid-liquid displacement porometry (LLDP). Using CFP, pore properties are calculated by measuring the the fluid flow....

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that Dr. Gang Yu, a professor at the School of Environment at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award. The award recognizes his contributions towards understanding the problems caused by emerging organic contaminants in water, and the development of solutions to combat these problems....

GCC Forensics Conference & Exhibition is the must attend event for the entire forensics sector in the Middle East. Following the unprecedented success of the first two editions of the event in Abu Dhabi, the event will move to Bahrain this year and take place 13-14 November 2019 at Gulf Hotel Bahrain....

Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, has announced that it has opened a new office space at Granta Park in Cambridgeshire, UK. The new facilities support the Company’s accelerated expansion and accommodate its plans for further growth....

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that the European, Israeli, South Korean and U.K. intellectual property offices have issued formal notices allowing seven additional Merck patent application claims covering CRISPR gene-editing technology, bringing the number of patents to 20 worldwide....

The globally active Eppendorf Group charted a strong first half-year in 2019 with a significant surge in Group sales to €378.5 million (prior year: €335.6 million). This positive development corresponds to an organic increase in sales of 12.8% (8.8% in local currencies). All of the company’s market regions contributed to this very good development, but sales growth of around 20%...

S$38 million research facility aims to be a premier, global, one-stop hub for research and translation to clinical testing through biochemical innovation and techniques. The National University of Singapore (NUS), Agilent Technologies, a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, and National University Hospital (NUH), have established Singapore's first integrated translational R&D hub...