Leica Biosystems, a global leader in anatomic pathology solutions and workflow automation, and Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Inc. (ACD), a world leader in RNA biomarker analysis for precision medicine, today announced a comprehensive partnership to develop and commercialize tissue-based diagnostic tests based on ACD's RNAscope in situ hybridization (ISH) assays on Leica Biosystems' BOND clinical advanced staining instruments.
The agreement supports Leica Biosystems' development and commercialization of fully automated RNAscope-based companion diagnostic (CDx) tests in partnership with biopharmaceutical companies. The combination of ACD's RNAscope technology with Leica Biosystems' fully automated pathology solutions allows companies and laboratories in clinical markets to integrate the power of new RNA-based biomarker tests into the...
Pharma and cosmetics multinational selects BioAscent as central hub for storage and logistics of extensive plant natural extracts collection
BioAscent Discovery, announces a new collaboration with pharmaceutical and cosmetics multinational, Pierre Fabre, as part of an open innovation initiative promoting the use of natural products in life sciences. Pierre Fabre’s library of ca. 15,000 plant extracts is the largest private collection of its type in the world. BioAscent’s state-of-the-art compound management and logistics facility is ideally placed to share out such an extract...
Themis Bioscience GmbH, a leading company developing prophylactic vaccines against emerging tropical infectious diseases, today announced the appointment of two new leadership members, Dr. Philippe Dro and Dr. Christian Mandl.
The appointment follows in the wake of the successful completion of a phase I clinical trial of the company's Chikungunya vaccine, and so Themis is heading for hot times – and is growing steadily. Dr. Philippe Dro, a renowned life science entrepreneur will join the Board of Directors. The Scientific Advisory Board of Themis Bioscience will in the future benefit from the outstanding experience of Dr. Christian Mandl as chai....
Strategic partnership creates a world leading CDMO offer to supply AAV-based viral vectors, an increasingly attractive therapeutic platform for gene therapy
Novasep, a leading supplier of services and technologies for the life sciences industry, and Advanced Biotherapeutics Consulting (ABC), a service provider that leverages the expertise of the Nantes Gene Therapy Institute led by Philippe Moullier, MD, PhD, today announce they have entered into a CDMO (Contract Development Manufacturing Organization) partnership. This partnership enables the companies to provide their respective...
Centauri Therapeutics Ltd, a biotechnology company focused on the treatment of infectious diseases, announced today that it has acquired the Alphamer technology for drug discovery and development from Altermune Technologies LLC.
Centauri Therapeutics acquired full rights to patents, proprietary compounds, know-how and collaboration/licence agreements from Altermune in exchange for an undisclosed fee. The company has also announced that it has appointed Dr Clive Dix as Chairman and secured the first tranche of a £3M raise to develop its first lead candidate. The funding will be used to develop its first lead Alphamers against anti-microbial resistant...
The stem cell disease model specialists recruit leading biologist, Prof Xianmin Zeng as Chief Scientific Officer
Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company, specialising in the use of stem cell technology to manufacture disease relevant cell based assay systems to the drug discovery industry, today announced Prof Xianmin Zeng, PhD as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Prof Zeng is an accomplished biologist with over 15 years of academic expertise in the development of stem cell technologies and its applications. A biotech entrepreneur with an extensive...
Synpromics Ltd, a leading synthetic biology company, and The Cell Therapy Catapult, the UK organisation accelerating the growth of the UK cell and gene therapy industry by bridging the gap between scientific research and commercialisation, today announce the launch of a collaboration to remove a major barrier to the development of the cell and gene therapy industry by reducing the cost and increasing the scale and efficiency of viral vector manufacturing.
The collaboration will use Synpromics' synthetic promoter design technology, and the Cell Therapy Catapult's flexible manufacturing platform to create stable producer cell lines for the high titre and large scale manufacture of viral vectors. The work will be part funded by a £2m grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. Viral vectors are a crucial tool needed to modify patient’s cells to create a therapeutic effect...
Genomics plc, a leading analysis company developing algorithms and software solutions to uncover the relationships between genetic variation and human disease, today announced that Sekar Kathiresan, M.D., a renowned clinical cardiologist and human geneticist, has joined Genomics plc’s newly-formed Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) as chair, with immediate effect.
Dr Kathiresan is one of the world leaders in the genetics of heart disease. He is the director of preventive cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, an associate member in the Broad Institute’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He received his...
Irvine Scientific, a world leader in the innovation and manufacture of cell culture media, reagents, and medical devices for industrial, clinical and research applications, today announced it has acquired BioCare Europe S.r.l. (BioCare).
Based in Rome, Italy, BioCare is a leading distributor of in vitro fertilization (IVF) media, medical devices, and equipment. Irvine Scientific provides the IVF market with cGMP cell culture media which is unrivalled in performance and quality. Supporting IVF hospitals and clinics worldwide, Irvine Scientific has been building a sales presence in Europe over the last several years, focused mainly in the UK, France, and Germany. BioCare is...
Metrohm USA and the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy have recently formed a mutually beneficial partnership.
The alliance will bring state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation and software to the School to be used by students and faculty in a variety of disciplines. The presence of Metrohm at the School of Pharmacy will foster collaboration between Metrohm scientists and the renowned research and education leaders at the School. Collaborative work is already under way in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Hoag, Professor of Pharmaceutical...
Interest in flow chemistry systems has doubled since 2010 according to UK-based flow chemistry engineering specialists Vapourtec (Cambridge, UK) who experienced a further 15% increase in turnover in 2015.
Vapourtec's turnover over the past 5 years has increased by 100% mirroring key industry reports that reveal an ever growing interest and engagement by chemists around the world in continuous process technology. Vapourtec founder and MD Duncan Guthrie commented: "We've experienced another rapid year of growth and this reflects growing awareness of the benefits and the impressive economies of scale that can be delivered by flow chemistry...
NanoHybrids Inc., a nanotechnology and molecular imaging company, recently received $225,000 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a new breakthrough immunohistochemistry (IHC) technology.
The project builds on NanoHybrids expertise producing high quality gold nanoparticles that enable innovative approaches to imaging. With this Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, NanoHybrids will develop a new photoacoustic microscopy platform to quantitatively assess biomarker distribution in biopsied and histological human samples.
Sakura Finetek USA, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Genemed Biotechnologies Inc.’s (Genemed) tissue-based Advanced Staining business for cancer detection, diagnosis and monitoring.
The deal is expected to be closed by December 31st, 2015. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. “We are pleased to add Genemed’s highly skilled and expert personnel, production facility and their extensive catalog of antibodies, probes and detection chemistry to Sakura’s product portfolio. The product portfolio offered by Genemed is a perfect complement to Sakura’s hardware and software...
An internationally renowned gene therapy research team has won a $200,000 CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences.
The contest was designed to explore innovative research solutions involving flow cytometry. The winning team, headed up by Dr Martin Pulé, is from UCL Cancer Institute at University College London, UK. Their submission focused on capitalizing on the power of multi-parameter flow cytometry to expand understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cancer at the single cell level. The CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer measures up to...
METTLER TOLEDO is proud to announce that its Rainin TerraRack™ line of pipette tip racks has achieved success in this year’s Green Apple Awards.
The judges clearly recognised the environmental benefits of this innovative product range – which is designed to minimise the problem of plastic tip rack waste – selecting TerraRack from a field of more than 500 entries to receive a Bronze Award for Environmental Best Practice. The award was presented to EU Market Manager Ian Eaton-Taylor at a ceremony held at the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday November 16th...
Asynt announces that Rapid Powders Ltd. (Stoke-on-Trent, UK) has been using a PressureSyn High Pressure Reactor to undertake series of process experiments using small amounts of precious materials to produce optimally functionalised polymers.
Rapid Powders Limited specialise in producing polymers with dispersions of functional materials such as metals, ceramics and carbons. Applications for these specialist materials include packaging, electrically conducting polymers, thermally conducting polymers and pigments. To enable them to rapidly make small batches of these functionalised polymers, Rapid Polymers Ltd evaluated various commercial small volume high pressure reactors for safety...
Chromatrap®, a business unit of Porvair Sciences, has announced that it will be the Lead Sponsor at the prestigious “Epigenetics in Drug Discovery” conference to be held in Cambridge, UK from 26th-27th January 2016.
Viewed as a new frontier in drug discovery, rapid progress has been made in enhancing understanding of epigenetic mechanisms of both new and existing drugs. With the processes that control epigenomic function providing new opportunities, epigenetics targets are enabling the discovery of novel drugs. At the conference - Dr Amy Beynon will deliver a presentation highlighting the use of new Chromatrap solid state ChIP...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, announce their new social media channels.
Analytik’s social media presence has quickly evolved from an experimental marketing approach to become an essential tool, central to our future growth and development strategy. Social media channels allow Analytik to maintain real-time connections with our customers and show the more personalised and human elements of our services. Social media is about engaging with an online audience and sharing relevant, interesting and...
Fedor Jelezko and Jörg Wrachtrup are the winners of the prestigious ZEISS Research Award in 2016.
They have been honored for their outstanding work on quantum technology with optically addressable spins in diamond. The award will be presented within the framework of the ZEISS Symposium that will take place for the first time on 23 June 2016 in the ZEISS Forum in Oberkochen. During this event international experts will conduct discussions and identify trends and requirements in the fields of optics and photonics that are being strongly influenced and changed by the...
Syrris, a world leader in flow product innovation, has been a driving force in enhancing R&D chemistry productivity ever since the company’s foundation 14 years ago.
This achievement is amply recognised by the wealth of impressive publications describing novel flow chemistry applications developed using Syrris reactors. Today, scientists have access to hundreds of flow chemistry papers citing groundbreaking applications established on modular reactors from Syrris, including the Ley group’s Accelerating Spirocyclic Polyketide Synthesis using Flow Chemistry1. The group, based at the University...
India’s largest employment sector focuses on enhancing consumer safety
Seward Ltd., manufacturer of the original Stomacher® laboratory paddle blenders and accessories used in sample preparation for microbiological analysis, announces that its Technical Director, Stuart Ray, has recently presented as an invited speaker at a prestigious food safety conference. The 10th National Food Safety and Quality Summit, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi, focused on ‘Integrating Global...
The agreement supports Leica Biosystems' development and commercialization of fully automated RNAscope-based companion diagnostic (CDx) tests in partnership with biopharmaceutical companies. The combination of ACD's RNAscope technology with Leica Biosystems' fully automated pathology solutions allows companies and laboratories in clinical markets to integrate the power of new RNA-based biomarker tests into the...
BioAscent Discovery, announces a new collaboration with pharmaceutical and cosmetics multinational, Pierre Fabre, as part of an open innovation initiative promoting the use of natural products in life sciences. Pierre Fabre’s library of ca. 15,000 plant extracts is the largest private collection of its type in the world. BioAscent’s state-of-the-art compound management and logistics facility is ideally placed to share out such an extract...
The appointment follows in the wake of the successful completion of a phase I clinical trial of the company's Chikungunya vaccine, and so Themis is heading for hot times – and is growing steadily. Dr. Philippe Dro, a renowned life science entrepreneur will join the Board of Directors. The Scientific Advisory Board of Themis Bioscience will in the future benefit from the outstanding experience of Dr. Christian Mandl as chai....
Novasep, a leading supplier of services and technologies for the life sciences industry, and Advanced Biotherapeutics Consulting (ABC), a service provider that leverages the expertise of the Nantes Gene Therapy Institute led by Philippe Moullier, MD, PhD, today announce they have entered into a CDMO (Contract Development Manufacturing Organization) partnership. This partnership enables the companies to provide their respective...
Centauri Therapeutics acquired full rights to patents, proprietary compounds, know-how and collaboration/licence agreements from Altermune in exchange for an undisclosed fee. 
Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company, specialising in the use of stem cell technology to manufacture disease relevant cell based assay systems to the drug discovery industry, today announced Prof Xianmin Zeng, PhD as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Prof Zeng is an accomplished biologist with over 15 years of academic expertise in the development of stem cell technologies and its applications. A biotech entrepreneur with an extensive...
The collaboration will use Synpromics' synthetic promoter design technology, and the Cell Therapy Catapult's flexible manufacturing platform to create stable producer cell lines for the high titre and large scale manufacture of viral vectors. The work will be part funded by a £2m grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. 
Dr Kathiresan is one of the world leaders in the genetics of heart disease. He is the director of preventive cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, an associate member in the Broad Institute’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He received his...
Based in Rome, Italy, BioCare is a leading distributor of in vitro fertilization (IVF) media, medical devices, and equipment. Irvine Scientific provides the IVF market with cGMP cell culture media which is unrivalled in performance and quality. Supporting IVF hospitals and clinics worldwide, Irvine Scientific has been building a sales presence in Europe over the last several years, focused mainly in the UK, France, and Germany. BioCare is...
The alliance will bring state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation and software to the School to be used by students and faculty in a variety of disciplines. The presence of Metrohm at the School of Pharmacy will foster collaboration between Metrohm scientists and the renowned research and education leaders at the School. Collaborative work is already under way in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Hoag, Professor of Pharmaceutical...
Vapourtec's turnover over the past 5 years has increased by 100% mirroring key industry reports that reveal an ever growing interest and engagement by chemists around the world in continuous process technology. Vapourtec founder and MD Duncan Guthrie commented: "We've experienced another rapid year of growth and this reflects growing awareness of the benefits and the impressive economies of scale that can be delivered by flow chemistry...
The deal is expected to be closed by December 31st, 2015. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. “We are pleased to add Genemed’s highly skilled and expert personnel, production facility and their extensive catalog of antibodies, probes and detection chemistry to Sakura’s product portfolio. The product portfolio offered by Genemed is a perfect complement to Sakura’s hardware and software...
The contest was designed to explore innovative research solutions involving flow cytometry. The winning team, headed up by Dr Martin Pulé, is from UCL Cancer Institute at University College London, UK. Their submission focused on capitalizing on the power of multi-parameter flow cytometry to expand understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cancer at the single cell level. The CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer measures up to...
The judges clearly recognised the environmental benefits of this innovative product range – which is designed to minimise the problem of plastic tip rack waste – selecting TerraRack from a field of more than 500 entries to receive a Bronze Award for Environmental Best Practice. The award was presented to EU Market Manager Ian Eaton-Taylor at a ceremony held at the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday November 16
Rapid Powders Limited specialise in producing polymers with dispersions of functional materials such as metals, ceramics and carbons. Applications for these specialist materials include packaging, electrically conducting polymers, thermally conducting polymers and pigments. To enable them to rapidly make small batches of these functionalised polymers, Rapid Polymers Ltd evaluated various commercial small volume high pressure reactors for safety...
Viewed as a new frontier in drug discovery, rapid progress has been made in enhancing understanding of epigenetic mechanisms of both new and existing drugs. With the processes that control epigenomic function providing new opportunities, epigenetics targets are enabling the discovery of novel drugs. 
Analytik’s social media presence has quickly evolved from an experimental marketing approach to become an essential tool, central to our future growth and development strategy. Social media channels allow Analytik to maintain real-time connections with our customers and show the more personalised and human elements of our services. 
They have been honored for their outstanding work on quantum technology with optically addressable spins in diamond. The award will be presented within the framework of the ZEISS Symposium that will take place for the first time on 23 June 2016 in the ZEISS Forum in Oberkochen. During this event international experts will conduct discussions and identify trends and requirements in the fields of optics and photonics that are being strongly influenced and changed by the...
This achievement is amply recognised by the wealth of impressive publications describing novel flow chemistry applications developed using Syrris reactors. 
Seward Ltd