Biotage has completed the acquisition of Astrea Bioseparations, a high-growth chromatography solutions provider from Gamma Biosciences, a life sciences tools platform created by KKR. Astrea’s over 150 employees worldwide will join Biotage, and the company’s production sites in Cambridge, UK, Isle of Man, Boston, USA, and Joliette, Canada become an important part of Biotage’s global presence. Biotage’s expanded portfolio will now include chromatography resins, absorbents, and columns...

Biotage has entered into an agreement to acquire Astrea Bioseparations, a high-growth chromatography solutions provider from Gamma Biosciences, a global life sciences platform formed by KKR to address the advanced therapy market with best-in-class bioprocessing solutions. The enterprise value for Astrea is approximately MUSD 190, subject to any closing adjustments and potential milestone-based payments...

Biotage is pleased to announce the launch of Biotage® Selekt Enkel, a new addition to the Biotage family of flash purification systems. The Biotage® Enkel is a dedicated, purification workhorse, with a modular design that facilitates application customization. It also utilizes the low solvent consumption workflow of the Biotage® Selekt family, for greener operation and greater sustainability...

Biotage is pleased to announce the launch of Biotage® Extrahera™ HV-5000, an automated workstation dedicated to column-based sample preparation that is able to aspirate and dispense high volume samples. Automation reduces reliance on human interaction, enabling laboratories to increase sample throughput and integrity. Like its predecessors the Biotage® Extrahera™ HV-5000 maintains the family’s small footprint, intuitive software, and precision engineering for the uniform processing of samples...

Biotage helps shape the sustainable science of tomorrow and our future society for the benefit of humankind – HumanKind Unlimited. With this principle Biotage has set out a commitment to unleashing the potential of humanity by working tirelessly to improve the health and wellbeing of both our customers through greener and more efficient solutions, and our own employees through smarter working practices....

Biotage is pleased to announce the launch of a sophisticated well plate evaporator, the TurboVap® 96 Dual – a second-generation system with two separate, and independently controlled evaporation compartments, building upon the reputable foundation of the Biotage TurboVap® product line. The new TurboVap® 96 Dual has been designed to support enhanced well-plate evaporation within the sample preparation workflow...

Opening a new facility, Biotage triples its production capacity for equipment crucial in the supply chain for the production of mRNA vaccines. Biotage is one of the few companies offering a complete solution and ready to go off-the-shelf products for the purification of large-scale lipids, used in mRNA vaccine development and production. Expanding its production capacity of large-scale flash columns by 300 per cent, Biotage is now helping pharmaceutical companies and contract manufacturers’ scale up lipid production for COVID-19 vaccines...

Biotage is pleased to announce the launch of Biotage^® PhyPrep, a new automated platform for plasmid DNA purification that releases laboratory staff from the tedium of repetitive, manual labor – and takes full advantage of the PhyTip^® columns’ dual flow chromatography technology, to yield supercoiled, endotoxin-free, transfection-grade plasmid DNA....

Biotage AB (Biotage), is pleased to announce the launch of a Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) software upgrade for Biotage® Extrahera™, their flagship automated sample preparation instrument for Supported Liquid Extraction (SLE), Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), Phospholipid Depletion (PLD) and Protein Precipitation (PPT). Biotage customers can now harness the system’s advanced automation tools with the Good Laboratory Practices required by today’s modern laboratories....

Biotage AB, is pleased to announce the launch of the Biotage® VacMaster™ Disk, a vacuum extraction unit for performing manual, disk-based extractions of semi-volatile organic compounds and hexane-extractable materials (HEMs) from aqueous matrices. Biotage® VacMaster™ Disk extraction unit is a single port vacuum manifold that applies vacuum to the outlet of a solid phase extraction disk to assist in the extraction of aqueous or...

Biotage AB is pleased to announce its strategic collaboration with Shandong Yingsheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Yingsheng is mainly focused on independently researching, producing and selling in vitro diagnostic reagents and medical equipment, building a genetic detection platform and mass spectrometry detection platform around metabolomics and genetics....

Biotage, a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical, medicinal and peptide chemistry, is pleased to announce the launch of Biotage® Selekt, a new flash purification system and the new Biotage® Sfär family of flash purification columns. Together these two new products provide both organic and peptide chemists the opportunity to improve their separations. The Biotage® Selekt flash purification system is a very compact instrument with a small bench top footprint....

Biotage, a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical, medicinal and peptide chemistry, is pleased to announce the launch of ISOLUTE® HYDRO DME+ fixed well plates and columns, for the efficient removal of matrix components from urine, using a simple pass through workflow. The novel (patent pending) dual mode extraction (DME) methodology has been developed by Biotage to provide more effective removal of matrix components such...

Biotage is pleased to announce the launch of EVOLUTE® HYDRO, solid phase extraction plates with an integral Hydrolysis capability that enable chemists to perform sample hydrolysis within the extraction plate; saving time and reducing sample transfer issues.

EVOLUTE® HYDRO Solid Phase Extraction plates gives customers the ability to perform sample (typically urine) hydrolysis within the wells of the extraction plate, followed directly by sample clean up using solid phase extraction, without the need for sample transfer....

Biotage is pleased to announce the launch of ISOLUTE® FILTER+ high performance filtration plates, for the processing of samples prior to UPLC-MS/MS, alongside a diverse range of other filtration applications.

ISOLUTE® FILTER+ plates offer high performance filtration of diverse biological samples, ideal for use with urine prepared by ‘dilute and shoot’, prior to UPLC-MS/MS analysis. Each plate contains a 0.2 µm membrane filter for particulate removal, topped by a depth filter to prevent blocking of the membrane....

Biotage is pleased to announce the launch of Isolera™ Dalton 2000, a new mass detector for flash purification that expands functionality through a wider detection range of ion masses, up to m/z 2000, and new analysis features.

Isolera™ Dalton 2000 is seamlessly integrated with Isolera™ Spektra flash purification system via the Isolera™ Dalton Nanolink unit, an intelligent sampling device which handles all fluids and synchronization between the two instruments....

Biotage announce the launch of Biotage® SNAP Bio C18 and Biotage® SNAP Bio C4 cartridges. New range of high performance flash cartridges with wide pore media (300 Å) for reversed phase purification of peptides and other larger molecules.

The purification step (RP-HPLC) is one of the main bottlenecks in the peptide synthesis workflow, limited by small loading amounts, long separation times, poor recoveries and high costs. Biotage® SNAP Bio cartridges offer similar performance, in a flash format, at a fraction of the cost....

Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical, medicinal and peptide chemistry, is pleased to announce the extension of the ISOLUTE® PLD+ protein and phospholipid removal product line to include the versatile tabless 1 mL column format, for the clean-up of blood based matrix samples for analysis by LC-MS/MS.

ISOLUTE® PLD+ 96-well plates and columns combine protein and phospholipid removal into a single product providing very effective and extremely simple sample clean-up for LC-MS/MS analysis. The new format is ideal for lower throughput applications, or for laboratories that have variable sample numbers to process. Up to 96 columns can be processed using specially designed base plates, eliminating the problem of wasted unused...

Biotage, a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical, medicinal and peptide chemistry, announces the launch of the new Isolera™ Dalton - a fully automated miniaturized mass directed flash purification system.

The new system raises the bar for flash purification by integrating, for the first time, a miniaturized mass detector and an advanced flash chromatography system into one commercially available platform. The mass detector and Isolera™ Spektra flash purification system are seamlessly integrated via the Isolera™ Dalton Nanolink unit, an intelligent sampling device which handles all fluids and synching calculations between the two units.....

Biotage has announced the launch of ISOLUTE^® Myco SPE columns, a new product for the ‘catch and release’ clean up of mycotoxins from food matrices, prior to analysis by LC-MS/MS

The ISOLUTE^® Myco sorbent is a proprietary polymeric phase (patent pending) optimized for the extraction of a broad spectrum of mycotoxins from a wide range of foodstuffs; enabling chemists to utilize a single SPE product to extract all relevant mycotoxins from an individual foodstuff.  Using a single, easy to use sample preparation product, along with optimized matrix specific application notes, scientists can prepare diverse samples for analysis by LC-MS/MS...

Biotage®, a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, introduced their new 2013 catalog of analytical sample preparation products for chemistry professionals

The significantly streamlined and user friendly 2013 edition includes a comprehensive range of products for bioanalysis, forensic, clinical, environmental, agrochemical and food applications. Included in the 2013 catalog is the EVOLUTE® EXPRESS range of polymeric SPE plates, offering a simplified and robust Load-Wash-Elute methodology that significantly reduces sample preparation time and solvent use whilst maintaining high, reliable analyte recoveries.

Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical, medicinal and peptide chemistry, has announced the launch of an updated version of its Isolera™ Spektra software with improvements to the time and solvent saving step gradient optimization feature

The updated software uses TLC data from 2 to 10 different TLC runs to estimate where the individual sample components will elute, the percentage of strong solvent required and which cartridge is best capable of purifying the amount of sample to be purified...

Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical, medicinal and peptide chemistry, introduced their new Universal Phase Separators, a flexible alternative to the traditional glass funnel separation of immiscible liquids

Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, introduced EVOLUTE® EXPRESS, a novel family of 96-well plates that simplify polymer-based SPE by employing a streamlined 3-step protocol; Load-Wash-Elute

Biotage is expanding its direct sales coverage and will begin selling SPE products directly into non-pharma application areas within the UK starting January 18, 2010. Sales to non-pharmaceutical based markets and customers have previously been managed by a distributor.