By Becky Chambers Hennessy, contributing writer   If you haven’t heard the drumbeat from the American Chemical Society (ACS), April 17 marks the start of 2022 Chemists Celebrate Earth Week, designed to promote “the positive role that chemistry plays in the world.” But as important as that role is, let’s face it: “Chemistry” has an…

Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced a new large-volume electroporation system that allows cell therapy developers to more easily move from clinical development to commercial manufacturing. The Gibco CTS Xenon Electroporation System leverages a closed, highly flexible design to facilitate gene modifications without the use of traditional viral vectors. The electroporation approach enables the introduction of…

To support active research and surveillance of viral pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched two new reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP)-based solutions. While PCR remains the gold standard for diagnostic, lab-based testing, isothermal RT-LAMP nucleic-acid-based amplification provides a rapid and low-cost option for viral pathogen detection. “In the global fight against COVID-19…

Genomenon Inc., an AI-driven genomics company, announces the completion of a $20 million Series B financing round. The funds will expand the company’s commercial operations and the development of its genomic data hub, which serves genetic testing labs, hospitals, pharmaceutical, and biopharma companies. Genomenon leverages AI (Artificial Intelligence) to organize the world’s genomic knowledge and…

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces the MALDI-8030 benchtop linear matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometer. Like its predecessor, innovative instrument design enables the MALDI-8030 to achieve performance specifications like those of larger, more expensive MALDI-TOF models in a significantly smaller footprint. This user-friendly compact instrument expands on the successful benchtop format of the MALDI-8020 by…

Medical device and technology company Lazurite Holdings announced a new phase of collaboration with University Hospitals (UH) Ventures, the innovation and commercialization arm of University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland, which will include an investment from UH Ventures. The amount and details of the investment were not specified. This past August, Lazurite announced its collaboration…

Leica Microsystems, a provider of microscopy and scientific instrumentation and a Life Sciences company of Danaher Corporation, has launched Mica, the world’s first Microhub. A Microhub is a new type of wholly integrated imaging solution that leverages machine learning software, automation tools, and unique fluorescence unmixing techniques to automate the imaging workflow for researchers, regardless…

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Symphogen, an affiliate of the pharmaceutical company Servier, announce the continuation of their collaboration to provide biopharmaceutical discovery and development laboratories with innovative tools and streamlined workflows for efficient characterization of complex therapeutic proteins. Since the collaboration began in 2018, Symphogen has adopted new and innovative instruments and software to improve…

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis took another step toward transforming its education spaces to meet its modern vision with the recent completion of a new Mass Spectrometry Center designed by KWK Architects. Constructed on the fourth floor of the Medical School’s 4444 Forest Park Ave. building and adjacent to the McDonnel Genome…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending February 18, 2022, closed at 5,075.11 for the 25 companies in the RDWI. The Index was down -2.18% (or 113.00 basis points) from the week ending February 11, 2022. The stock of nine RDWI members gained value from 0.96% (Novartis) to 6.14% (Cisco). The stock of…

The RAPTR N95, from Sandia National Laboratories, is a reusable respirator intended for medical applications designed for rapid producibility using standard injection molding processes. The unique structure of this respirator permits the components to be disassembled for sterilization/ decontamination/replacement. This respirator employs a passive resonator to transmit the wearer’s voice and can be replaced with…

Thermo Fisher Scientific is investing $40 million to expand its single-use technology (SUT) manufacturing facility in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. The expansion is part of the company’s $650 million multi-year investment, announced last year, to help ensure flexible, scalable and reliable bioprocessing production capacity exists for critical materials used in developing new and existing biologics and vaccines,…

DuPont has launched a new online sales portal tailored to the needs of bioprocessing industry purchasers. The portal handles online sales transactions, with target lead times of less than one week. DuPont’s bioprocessing solutions enable sophisticated purifications and separations for therapeutics and diagnostics, with brands such as DuPont AMBERCHROM and DuPont AMBERLITE being well established…

Torrey Pines Scientific has introduced its new EchoTherm Model CO50 Programmable HPLC Column Chiller/Heater. The unit has a temperature range from 4.0° C to 100.0° C readable and settable to 0.1° C. The PID control software regulates temperatures to ±0.2° C, even at ambient. The CO50 has a Stable Temperature LED that illuminates when the…

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, announces the launch of a new Women in STEM leadership pilot program. The program is aimed at organizations seeking to develop leadership and mentoring skills and promote diversity in the life sciences work environment. It brings together more than…

EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company, announces that its EUROIMMUN Anti-Dengue Virus NS1 Type 1-4 ELISA (IgG) (research use only) was cited by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the two-step testing algorithm guidance for pre-vaccination screening for the Dengvaxia vaccine that is used to prevent future dengue disease. According to…

Université de Paris has installed a new Bruker In Vitro Diagnostic research (IVDr) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer within its MetaboParis-Santé 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…

TruTag is the scalable smart medicine solution. Its “edible barcodes,” made of spectrally encoded silica particles, are supplemented by a mobile app that can verify their authenticity, secure the pharmaceutical supply chain and improve patient adherence. Counterfeit drugs are a major problem for the pharmaceutical industry, both in terms of financial impact and in compromising…

Proscia, the digital and computational pathology solutions provider, and Datavant, which securely connects organizations with health data, have announced a partnership that will provide life sciences companies with digitized pathology data to power the development of novel therapeutics and diagnostics. The partnership brings together Datavant’s privacy-preserving connectivity technology and the largest U.S. health data ecosystem…

Because of their excessive size, weight, power, cost and environmental sensitivity, continuous wave deep ultraviolet lasers have long been exclusively laboratory devices. The Model 261, from UVC Photonics, is an entirely new approach to deep ultraviolet lasers. Several years of development has resulted in a rugged, compact and low-cost module suitable for integration into fixed,…

ZEISS has recently introduced two new software functionalities with ZEISS LSM Plus and ZEISS Airyscan Joint Deconvolution, users achieve better results in confocal microscopy. Maximizing recovery requires improvements in efficiency Laser scanning microscopes (LSMs) are the multifunctional high-end microscopes in every imaging facility, valued as much for their instant, high-quality imaging of optical sections as…

Biognosys, a developer and provider of next-generation proteomics technology and solutions, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, have extended a co-marketing agreement to provide life science researchers with comprehensive mass spectrometry answers to gain deep proteomics insights at a large scale. The agreement leverages the two companies’ complementary capabilities in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Biognosys deploys Thermo Fisher…

The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending December 17, 2021, closed at 5,518.10 for the 25 companies in the RDWI. The Index was down -2.09% (or -117.84 basis points) from the week ending December 10, 2021. The stock of 14 RDWI members gained value from 0.06% (Intel) to 12.69% (Pfizer). The stock of…

Contipharma, a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development and marketing of targeted medical solutions, is now making a saliva-based PCR test available across the entire continent of Africa. The test, which was developed by the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium and is CE marked, can detect all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, including Omicron. It…

Biognosys, a developer and provider of next-generation proteomics technology and solutions, and Thermo Fisher Scientific recently announced they have extended a co-marketing agreement to provide life science researchers with comprehensive mass spectrometry solutions to gain deep proteomics insights at a large scale. The agreement leverages the two companies’ complementary capabilities in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Biognosys…