Coriolis Pharma, a globally operating service provider and one of the world leaders in formulation research and development of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, has announced the opening of its new ATMP development facilities under biosafety level S2 (BSL2 / S2). After one year of re-construction, the new facilities in close proximity to Coriolis’ headquarters in Martinsried will significantly increase Coriolis’ capabilites for ATMP development....
Nuclera, a biotech company developing cutting-edge benchtop protein printing technologies, today announced that the first close of its Series B financing has raised $42.5 million. The funds raised will be used to accelerate the development and commercialization of its eProtein™ desktop bioprinter. Nuclera’s ground-breaking protein printing technology has attracted many new and existing institutional and strategic investors...
In December 2021, ZEISS entered a strategic partnership with the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) and the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM), developing the Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence (Oxford-ZCoE). The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) is a world-leading medical research centre where discovery research drives development of transformative therapies for chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease....
A first of its kind, mobile platform for cell and gene therapy was introduced by Germfree Labs, a Florida company, at Advanced Therapies Week in Miami Beach. The new bioGO® cGMP Mobile Cleanroom solves complex logistical challenges facing the CGT (cell and gene therapy) industry. The flexible bioprocessing platform was designed by Germfree in response to critical constraints in the development, manufacturing and delivery of new and emerging curative therapies...
Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announce that it has acquired Omiq Inc, a company specialized in data science SaaS solutions for high dimensional flow cytometry and quantitative multi-omics data. The company’s principal product, OMIQ, is a flexible cloud platform enabling researchers to identify drug or therapeutic interactions with a biological system through the tracking of biomarkers within lab samples...
Univercells S.A. (Univercells) announces its acquisition of SynHelix, a biotechnology company that aims to debottleneck biotherapeutics development through an unprecedented robust, scalable and automated DNA synthesis technology resulting in one-step generation of long DNA fragments, in large quantities, with high purity, in a cGMP-compliant setup. SynHelix’s offering will complement the RNA platform being developed by Quantoom Biosciences...
French CRO kicks off new growth phase by boosting research capacity, with plans to use site to set up therapeutic innovation campus, including center for cryo-electron microscopy. NovAliX, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug research and development, today announces the first stage in its development project that will allow it to offer clients a more complete, high-quality portfolio with enhanced biological and pharmacological services...
The startup company Novel Concepts Medical is delighted to announce another major breakthrough in its research of COVID-19. Its novel plant-based treatment has resulted in successfully inhibiting the COVID-19 Omicron variant and blocking its connection to human cells. In case studies, volunteers had negative PCR results within 48 hours and quickly recovered from more than 16 symptoms of long COVID-19, including memory loss, loss of taste and smell, headaches, fatigue, and many symptoms that are common to both COVID-19 and the flu...
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s customers based in Russia can now directly buy and receive support on the complete chromatography and mass spectrometry portfolio. Scientists and laboratory personnel based in Russia using chromatography and mass spectrometry systems now have easy access to the complete collection of instruments and solutions, as well as comprehensive customer support from installation to routine use in the laboratory, with direct access to Russian-based expert sales teams...
BBI Solutions, the world’s leading independent provider of immuno-diagnostic reagents and contract services, has announced the acquisition of “Biotez”. BioTeZ Berlin-Buch GmbH (also including Steffens Biotechnische Analysen GmbH), is a Germany-based manufacturer of reagents and finished tests for the In-Vitro Diagnostics (“IVD”) market, as well as components for the food safety market....
Universit?de Paris has installed a new Bruker In Vitro Diagnostic research (IVDr) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer within its MetaboParis-Sant?platform located in the center of Paris city, France. One of the most prestigious universities in France, known for its cutting-edge research in medicine and more broadly biology and health, is the first facility in the country to benefit from a IVDr instrument of its kind...
The 2021 post-event report is here! Lab Innovations 2021 was an excellent return to live events for the laboratory industry, with an impressive turnout from exhibitors and visitors alike. Brands in attendance included 3M, NHS, GSK, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, UCL, Nestle, Miele, The University of Cambridge, The Francis Crick Institute, Unilever and many more. This year there were 3,117 total attendees, and there was a 57% increase in C-Suite level visitors....
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) highlights innovative laboratory automation solutions at the SLAS2022 International Conference and Exhibition held February 5 through February 9, 2022, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Agilent modular automation solutions address a wide array of cell analysis, mass spectrometry, and genomics workflows in both development and regulated environments....
Eppendorf expanded its centrifuge offering with the acquisition of the centrifugation business of the Japanese company Koki Holdings Co., Ltd, whose products are marketed globally under the brand name Himac in 2020. The introduction of the portfolio under the Eppendorf umbrella began with the launch of the CP22N and CP30NX high-speed, floor-standing centrifuges in 2021 and has now been completed with the addition of the CP-NX and CS-(F)NX series ultracentrifuges this month...
Sartorius and HOF Sonderanlagenbau, have announced a partnership to integrate two HOF horizontal plate freeze-thaw units into Sartorius’ portfolio offering customers a full suite of compatible freeze-thaw equipment and consumables. This partnership will enable faster and easier implementation of robust frozen drug substance management platforms through improved validation and purchase support from a single supplier...
Drawing upon its expertise in polymer moulding, surface treatment, specialist assembly and knowledge of analytical, healthcare and life science applications has enabled Porvair Sciences to become a market leading supplier of private label and custom manufactured microplates. Krzysztof Kielmann, Microplates Product Manager at Porvair Sciences said "Many instrument suppliers today recognise that 'off-the-shelf' microplates will not always enable them to fulfil new application opportunities or gain a competitive edge...
Designed to support PhoreMost’s phenotypic screening requirements and expertise, the new bespoke 14,900 sq ft state-of-the-art facility is split equally between office and laboratory space, with an additional 4,000 sq ft of warehouse storage. The space, within The Works, Unity Campus’ latest combined office and R&D building, enables the Company to add in-house flow cytometry and imaging capabilities....
TetraScience, the R&D Data Cloud company, announce that Paradigm4, an integrated scientific data analytics company, has joined the Tetra Partner Network (TPN) so that pharmaceutical customers can accelerate research decision-making using Tetra Data as a foundation for analytical computing. “We’re delighted to welcome Paradigm4 to the Tetra Partner Network so that customers can benefit from our complementary expertise in extracting full value from a range of scientific data sets...
MolGen B.V. of Veenendaal (NL) is excited to announce its participation in SLAS 2022, February 5-9. SLAS 2022, organized by SLAS international conference and exhibition to highlight life science discoveries,?research?and innovations in laboratory technology. With 80 scientific talks and exhibitions, it brings a unique opportunity to inspire life science researchers to share discovery and thought-provoking research, to connect with developers and top-tier providers of laboratory automation...
Waters Corporation announce it has acquired the technology assets and intellectual property rights of Megadalton Solutions, Inc., an early-stage developer of Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry (CDMS) technology and services. Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed. Founded in 2018 by professors Martin Jarrold and David Clemmer at Indiana University, Megadalton Solutions has developed CDMS instrumentation that makes it possible to analyze extremely large proteins and protein complexes...
INTEGRA Biosciences is giving labs a chance to win one of 10 EVOLVE Manual Pipette Starter Packs. EVOLVE pipettes are flexible tools that can handle a wide range of volumes – from 0.2 to 5000 µl – with quick set dials that allow volumes to be set more than 10 times faster than traditional manual pipettes, saving precious time and minimizing the risk of repetitive strain injury...
Autoscribe Informatics is pleased to announce that the prestigious Sydney, Australia, based Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics (GWCCG) is using Matrix Gemini Biobank Manager in its day-to-day operations. The team uses the solution in its cellular genomics research to help understand how diseases originate or act at a cellular level. The GWCCG works with researchers and industry partners, providing cutting edge services for both fundamental research and novel translational cellular genomics development...
Coriolis Pharma, a globally operating service provider and one of the world leaders in formulation research and development of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, has announced the opening of its new ATMP development facilities under biosafety level S2 (BSL2 / S2). After one year of re-construction, the new facilities in close proximity to Coriolis’ headquarters in Martinsried will significantly increase Coriolis’ capabilites for ATMP development....
Nuclera, a biotech company developing cutting-edge benchtop protein printing technologies, today announced that the first close of its Series B financing has raised $42.5 million. The funds raised will be used to accelerate the development and commercialization of its eProtein™ desktop bioprinter. Nuclera’s ground-breaking protein printing technology has attracted many new and existing institutional and strategic investors...
In December 2021, ZEISS entered a strategic partnership with the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) and the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM), developing the Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence (Oxford-ZCoE). The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (KIR) is a world-leading medical research centre where discovery research drives development of transformative therapies for chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease....
A first of its kind, mobile platform for cell and gene therapy was introduced by Germfree Labs, a Florida company, at Advanced Therapies Week in Miami Beach. The new bioGO® cGMP Mobile Cleanroom solves complex logistical challenges facing the CGT (cell and gene therapy) industry. The flexible bioprocessing platform was designed by Germfree in response to critical constraints in the development, manufacturing and delivery of new and emerging curative therapies...
Insightful Science, the software company enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, announce that it has acquired Omiq Inc, a company specialized in data science SaaS solutions for high dimensional flow cytometry and quantitative multi-omics data. The company’s principal product, OMIQ, is a flexible cloud platform enabling researchers to identify drug or therapeutic interactions with a biological system through the tracking of biomarkers within lab samples...
Univercells S.A. (Univercells) announces its acquisition of SynHelix, a biotechnology company that aims to debottleneck biotherapeutics development through an unprecedented robust, scalable and automated DNA synthesis technology resulting in one-step generation of long DNA fragments, in large quantities, with high purity, in a cGMP-compliant setup. SynHelix’s offering will complement the RNA platform being developed by Quantoom Biosciences...
French CRO kicks off new growth phase by boosting research capacity, with plans to use site to set up therapeutic innovation campus, including center for cryo-electron microscopy. NovAliX, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) specializing in drug research and development, today announces the first stage in its development project that will allow it to offer clients a more complete, high-quality portfolio with enhanced biological and pharmacological services...
The startup company Novel Concepts Medical is delighted to announce another major breakthrough in its research of COVID-19. Its novel plant-based treatment has resulted in successfully inhibiting the COVID-19 Omicron variant and blocking its connection to human cells. In case studies, volunteers had negative PCR results within 48 hours and quickly recovered from more than 16 symptoms of long COVID-19, including memory loss, loss of taste and smell, headaches, fatigue, and many symptoms that are common to both COVID-19 and the flu...
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s customers based in Russia can now directly buy and receive support on the complete chromatography and mass spectrometry portfolio. Scientists and laboratory personnel based in Russia using chromatography and mass spectrometry systems now have easy access to the complete collection of instruments and solutions, as well as comprehensive customer support from installation to routine use in the laboratory, with direct access to Russian-based expert sales teams...
BBI Solutions, the world’s leading independent provider of immuno-diagnostic reagents and contract services, has announced the acquisition of “Biotez”. BioTeZ Berlin-Buch GmbH (also including Steffens Biotechnische Analysen GmbH), is a Germany-based manufacturer of reagents and finished tests for the In-Vitro Diagnostics (“IVD”) market, as well as components for the food safety market....
Universit?de Paris has installed a new Bruker In Vitro Diagnostic research (IVDr) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer within its MetaboParis-Sant?platform located in the center of Paris city, France. One of the most prestigious universities in France, known for its cutting-edge research in medicine and more broadly biology and health, is the first facility in the country to benefit from a IVDr instrument of its kind...
The 2021 post-event report is here! Lab Innovations 2021 was an excellent return to live events for the laboratory industry, with an impressive turnout from exhibitors and visitors alike. Brands in attendance included 3M, NHS, GSK, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, UCL, Nestle, Miele, The University of Cambridge, The Francis Crick Institute, Unilever and many more. This year there were 3,117 total attendees, and there was a 57% increase in C-Suite level visitors....
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) highlights innovative laboratory automation solutions at the SLAS2022 International Conference and Exhibition held February 5 through February 9, 2022, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Agilent modular automation solutions address a wide array of cell analysis, mass spectrometry, and genomics workflows in both development and regulated environments....
Eppendorf expanded its centrifuge offering with the acquisition of the centrifugation business of the Japanese company Koki Holdings Co., Ltd, whose products are marketed globally under the brand name Himac in 2020. The introduction of the portfolio under the Eppendorf umbrella began with the launch of the CP22N and CP30NX high-speed, floor-standing centrifuges in 2021 and has now been completed with the addition of the CP-NX and CS-(F)NX series ultracentrifuges this month...
Sartorius and HOF Sonderanlagenbau, have announced a partnership to integrate two HOF horizontal plate freeze-thaw units into Sartorius’ portfolio offering customers a full suite of compatible freeze-thaw equipment and consumables. This partnership will enable faster and easier implementation of robust frozen drug substance management platforms through improved validation and purchase support from a single supplier...
Drawing upon its expertise in polymer moulding, surface treatment, specialist assembly and knowledge of analytical, healthcare and life science applications has enabled Porvair Sciences to become a market leading supplier of private label and custom manufactured microplates. Krzysztof Kielmann, Microplates Product Manager at Porvair Sciences said "Many instrument suppliers today recognise that 'off-the-shelf' microplates will not always enable them to fulfil new application opportunities or gain a competitive edge...
Designed to support PhoreMost’s phenotypic screening requirements and expertise, the new bespoke 14,900 sq ft state-of-the-art facility is split equally between office and laboratory space, with an additional 4,000 sq ft of warehouse storage. The space, within The Works, Unity Campus’ latest combined office and R&D building, enables the Company to add in-house flow cytometry and imaging capabilities....
TetraScience, the R&D Data Cloud company, announce that Paradigm4, an integrated scientific data analytics company, has joined the Tetra Partner Network (TPN) so that pharmaceutical customers can accelerate research decision-making using Tetra Data as a foundation for analytical computing. “We’re delighted to welcome Paradigm4 to the Tetra Partner Network so that customers can benefit from our complementary expertise in extracting full value from a range of scientific data sets...
MolGen B.V. of Veenendaal (NL) is excited to announce its participation in SLAS 2022, February 5-9. SLAS 2022, organized by SLAS international conference and exhibition to highlight life science discoveries,?research?and innovations in laboratory technology. With 80 scientific talks and exhibitions, it brings a unique opportunity to inspire life science researchers to share discovery and thought-provoking research, to connect with developers and top-tier providers of laboratory automation...
Waters Corporation announce it has acquired the technology assets and intellectual property rights of Megadalton Solutions, Inc., an early-stage developer of Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry (CDMS) technology and services. Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed. Founded in 2018 by professors Martin Jarrold and David Clemmer at Indiana University, Megadalton Solutions has developed CDMS instrumentation that makes it possible to analyze extremely large proteins and protein complexes...
INTEGRA Biosciences is giving labs a chance to win one of 10 EVOLVE Manual Pipette Starter Packs. EVOLVE pipettes are flexible tools that can handle a wide range of volumes – from 0.2 to 5000 µl – with quick set dials that allow volumes to be set more than 10 times faster than traditional manual pipettes, saving precious time and minimizing the risk of repetitive strain injury...
Autoscribe Informatics is pleased to announce that the prestigious Sydney, Australia, based Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics (GWCCG) is using Matrix Gemini Biobank Manager in its day-to-day operations. The team uses the solution in its cellular genomics research to help understand how diseases originate or act at a cellular level. The GWCCG works with researchers and industry partners, providing cutting edge services for both fundamental research and novel translational cellular genomics development...