Life Science

PerkinElmer announced they have four new ready-to-use AlphaLISA KRAS kits, designed to help scientists better understand complex KRAS protein structures and mutations so they can more easily, quickly and precisely identify potential new therapeutic candidates for a wide range of prevalent cancers. Researchers will now be able to choose between PerkinElmer’s HTRF or AlphaLISA assays…

Atlas Antibodies has agreed to acquire evitria, developer of transient recombinant antibody expression in CHO cells. This transformative acquisition brings together a leading provider of highly validated research antibodies and a front-runner in the field of custom recombinant antibody expression. Since its inception in 2010, evitria has been singularly focused on transient expression of recombinant…

PerkinElmer has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire BioLegend, a provider of life science antibodies and reagents, for approximately $5.25 billion in a combination of cash and stock, subject to certain adjustments. BioLegend provides its academic and biopharmaceutical customers with best-in-class antibodies and reagents in high-growth areas such as cytometry, proteogenomics, multiplex…

I know how critical it is to be measured when setting expectations. In business, as in life, none of us aspire to overpromise and under-deliver. Indeed, as any business venture must do when communicating with investors and the public, we at Affimed are careful to use so-called “forward-looking statements” in laying out business goals. For…

PerkinElmer announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the PerkinElmer New Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Detection Kit for an additional indication that permits use of saliva as specimen type. The kit now has Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 in saliva specimens collected using the…

SPT Labtech, a laboratory automation solutions company for the life sciences industry, announces changes in its leadership team to further capitalize on its organic and acquisition-led growth. David Newble has been appointed CEO, SPT Labtech, stepping up from his previous position as managing director. In his new capacity he takes responsibility for all SPT Labtech…

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, announces the second phase of its Semantic Enrichment of ELN Data (SEED) project. The project addresses the challenge facing R&D from the vast volumes of captured experimental data locked in Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs). These unusable and unsearchable data…

Mace, the global consultancy and construction company, together with design partners WSP and HOK and technical partners Hoare Lea and GMP, supported the delivery of one of the world’s largest, most innovative diagnostic facilities — the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory — as part of the UK government’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mace-led multidisciplinary…

A Virginia Commonwealth University engineering professor has received a $2,093,541 grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health for his research into how mechanical forces regulate cellular processes, which is key to understanding the development and progression of disease. Daniel E. Conway, Ph.D., the Inez A. Caudill Junior Professor in Biomedical Engineering and an associate…

SRI International (SRI) has entered a research collaboration with Sanofi, leveraging SRI’s SynFini artificial intelligence (AI)-guided, automated synthetic-chemistry system platform. The collaboration will discover and develop lead candidates in multiple high-profile drug-discovery programs at Sanofi. SRI’s SynFini platform combines AI and automation to accelerate small molecule drug discovery and development, and thereby bring new drugs…

Thermo Fisher Scientific and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) West Coast Metabolomics Center announce The Center of Excellence in Clinical Metabolomics, a research collaboration to provide the metabolomics community with innovations, best practices and standard operating procedures to support the rapid scale-up of large cohort studies and clinical research. Metabolomics is an increasingly…

Roquette, a provider of naturally derived pharmaceutical excipients, announces the opening of its new pharma online marketplace, powered by Knowde. The e-commerce platform will provide users with access to Roquette’s trusted and reliable flagship pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical offerings at smaller quantities for the first time. Established as part of an initiative to better support manufacturers…

By Steve Martin, Purdue Surgeons may soon be able to localize critical regions in tissues and organs during a surgical operation thanks to a new, patent-pending Purdue University biosensor that can be printed in 3D using an automated printing system. Chi Hwan Lee created the biosensor, which allows for simultaneous recording and imaging of tissues…

ACD/Labs, a provider of scientific informatics technologies for molecular characterization, has announced a partnership with Science Data Experts (SDE). Together, ACD/Labs and SDE will use their experience and expertise to enable life sciences organizations to implement a variety of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to accelerate innovation in R&D. The partnership will…

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces When someone bumps their elbow against a wall, they not only feel pain but also might experience bruising. Robots and prosthetic limbs don’t have these warning signs, which could lead to further injury. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have developed an artificial skin that senses force…

A team of clinicians and scientists from the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) at the National University Hospital (NUH) and the N.1 Institute for Health at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has partnered Paxman Coolers (UK) to develop a device that may prevent or reduce numbness and pain caused by certain types of…

PerkinElmer has announced that it is providing its PhenoVue Cell Painting Kits to the Joint Undertaking in Morphological Profiling-Cell Painting (JUMP-CP) consortium. The consortium, spearheaded by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and including leading pharmaceutical companies and non-profit research organizations, is focused on creating and sharing the world’s largest public cell imaging data…

Selux Diagnostics, specialists in personalized diagnostics to combat superbug infections and fight antibiotic resistance, has been awarded an additional $14.6 million in funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. BARDA modified the…

Medial diagnostics company Cytovale has announced the first enrollment in a clinical trial of the Cytovale system and IntelliSep test to aid in the rapid diagnosis of sepsis in the emergency room (ER). The trial, A Clinical Validation Solving the Question of Inflammation or Sepsis Hastily in the Emergency Department Protocol (CV-SQuISH-ED), is a multi-site,…

By Aliyah Kovner, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Vaccines are turning the tide in the pandemic, but the risk of infection is still present in some situations. If you want to visit a friend, get on a plane, or go see a movie, there is no highly accurate, instant test that can tell you right then and…

Blackrock Neurotech, a brain-computer interface (BCI) technology innovator and manufacturer, has presented recently published research in Science Magazine by the University of Pittsburgh’s Rehab Neural Engineering Labs called “A brain-computer interface that evokes tactile sensations improves robotic arm control.” The research team used Blackrock’s NeuroPort System to control a bidirectional prosthetic arm to restore function…

GenElute-E Single Spin purification kits improve productivity in the lab through a more flexible and streamlined nucleic acid purification process. “Especially now, when many researchers cannot be in the lab as much or as often as they would like, we want to streamline their efforts on long, manual processes and avoid hazardous liquid waste,” said…

Lonza has launched the next generation of its popular Nucleofector Platform. For more than 20 years, Nucleofector Technology has been an effective non-viral cell transfection method, which can be used even for hard-to-transfect cells, such as primary cells and pluripotent stem cells. Now, with an updated core unit and even more intuitive software, the next…

By Jeremy Thomas, LLNL Thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been used in human patients at the University of California, San Francisco, generating never-before-seen recordings of brain activity in the hippocampus, a region responsible for memory and other cognitive functions. In a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, surgeons at…

Sustainable protein company Unibio has signed a partnership agreement with Stafilies, the holding company of Protelux, to further deepen their collaboration in developing the industrial-scale production of its high-quality Uniprotein at Protelux. Protelux is the first industrial plant that has brought Unibio’s patented U-Loop continuous-flow fermentation process into industrial-scale production. Protelux is located in Ivangorod,…