Professor Mel Greaves has been knighted in the New Year honours list 2019 for his pioneering and hugely influential research into childhood leukaemia. Professor Greaves, or Sir Mel, as he can now be known, has carried out groundbreaking work to understand the hidden natural history and causes of childhood leukaemia during a 35-year career at The Institute of Cancer Research, London – leading to advances in...

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a US subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation and a leading company in cell culture media, announced that on January 1, 2019 in the United States, the company changed its name from Irvine Scientific Sales Company, Inc. The new company name combines the “FUJIFILM” brand, which is recognized worldwide as a global company, together with the “Irvine Scientific” brand, which has been established as a leading company for cell culture media....

Horizon Discovery Group plc, a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces that it has entered into an exclusive target discovery partnership with C4X Discovery Holdings plc (AIM: C4XD), a pioneering drug discovery company. The partnership aims to validate the novel synthetic lethal oncology targets that Horizon has identified using its cutting-edge CRISPR-Cas9 technology....

This report studies the global flash chromatography market over the period 2017 to 2022. The report provides detailed insights into the market dynamics to enable informed business decision making and growth strategy formulation based on the opportunities present in the market. The global flash chromatography market was valued at US$ 210.7 million in 2016 and is projected to grow at a healthy...

BMG LABTECH supported the team by providing a CLARIOstar microplate reader. At the 2018 iGEM Gaint Jamboree, the team of the University of Marburg won the Grand Prize in the overgraduate section with their project “VibriGens – Accelerating SynBio”. At the end of October the team received its award in Boston, USA. In response to the great demand, the students presented again their project on Tuesday 27th of November in front of a selected...

World market leader strengthens competence in the field of lab temperature contro. LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG has announced the acquisition of GFL Gesellschaft für Labortechnik mbH today. This is the third takeover in total for the world market leader from Lauda-Königshofen. While the previous acquisitions primarily served to open up new business areas in the industrial environment, LAUDA intends to expand...

Reagecon, the world’s largest manufacturer of standards and reagents and supplier of chemicals, consumables and equipment to testing laboratories across the globe has implemented a Sana web-store to simplify the complex buying process for its customers. The web-store integrates with Reagecon’s SAP Business One ERP system to deliver technical and regulatory data on each product page, including the display of vital safety...

Autoscribe Informatics has appointed Labcom Technology as distributor in Bangladesh for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) products. Labcom Technology is a leading consultant and supplier to the laboratory scientific instrument industries and ICT industries in Bangladesh, with a strong customer base in both industrial and educational sectors...

Over 6,000 freelance scientists from 131 countries have registered with Kolabtree, the global online platform for freelance scientists. Freelancers offer advanced services including data analytics, scientific writing and experiment design, to provide small businesses and research organizations with the specialized skills and experience required for their projects. Based in London and established in 2015...

Batavia Biosciences announces that the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Batavia Biosciences will work together under a grant to advance the development of a Lassa fever vaccine. With this grant, Batavia Biosciences will leverage its novel, highly intensified manufacturing technology to develop a low-cost, easy-to-implement manufacturing process. This process can facilitate rapid clinical development and establishment of a stockpile of an innovative new Lassa fever vaccine...

WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologics discovery, development and manufacturing and Oxford BioTherapeutics Ltd., a clinical stage oncology company with a pipeline of immuno-oncology and antibody-drug conjugate based therapies, has announced the expansion of their strategic and innovative immuno-oncology (IO) alliance...

Developer of the PredictSURE IBD™ prognostic test awarded £100K from Innovate UK’s ‘Precision medicine technologies: shaping the future’ fund to support feasibility study. PredictImmune, developer of prognostic tools to guide treatment of patients with immune-mediated diseases, announced today that it has been awarded a grant of £100,000 by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. PredictImmune is focussed on the...

Company receives award in healthcare category for cancer therapy in clinical development with an action on cancer stem cells. Genoscience Pharma, a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to discovering and developing anticancer drugs, is delighted to announce that it received the Most Innovative European Biotech SME Award for 2018 in the Healthcare category at EuropaBio. Genoscience Pharma is an innovative SME located in Marseille, France...