GE Healthcare expands cell therapy portfolio with license of STEMCELL Technologies’ T-Cell reagents

Chalfont St Giles, UK – 23 August 2016 – In a further step to build its portfolio for the rapidly-growing cell therapy industry, GE Healthcare today announced an agreement with STEMCELL Technologies Inc. of Vancouver, Canada to provide T-Cell reagents for commercial-scale cell therapy production. Under the agreement, GE Healthcare will commercialize cGMP-grade versions of... Read more

Takara Bio enters into a license and supply agreement of RetroNectin® with Kite Pharma

Takara Bio enters into a license and supply agreement of RetroNectin® with Kite Pharma Kusatsu/Shiga, Japan — June 21, 2016 – Takara Bio Inc. announces that it has entered into a License and Supply Agreement with Kite Pharma, Inc. (“Kite”), United States, under which Takara Bio grants Kite a commercial license to use applicable patents relating... Read more

PnuVax to acquire inactivated yellow fever vaccine intellectual property from GE Healthcare

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA – 8 June 2016 – PnuVax Incorporated (PnuVax), a vaccine and biopharmaceutical company, and GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business (NYSE: GE) announced today that they have entered an agreement under which PnuVax can acquire GE Healthcare’s intellectual property (IP) relating to an inactivated yellow fever vaccine. Under... Read more

Takara Bio grants Cellectis SA a commercial license to use RetroNectin®

2016 2016/03/22 Takara Bio grants Cellectis SA a commercial license to use RetroNectin® Kusatsu/Shiga, Japan – March 22, 2016 – Takara Bio Inc. announces that it has entered into a License and Supply Agreement with Cellectis SA. Under the agreement, Takara Bio grants Cellectis a commercial license to use RetroNectin® and Takara Bio also supplies RetroNectin® to Cellectis . ... Read more

NBA and GE Healthcare Leadership Meet on Injury Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment

WAUWATOSA, Wis., Dec. 7, 2015 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) today conducted a successful meeting at GE’s Wisconsin offices to discuss the progress of their research collaboration.  The partnership, which commenced in July, promotes sports medicine research to benefit not only NBA players but athletes of all levels.  Today’s... Read more

New Predatory Cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar Amber

We describe a new extinct lineage Manipulatoridae (new family) of cockroaches from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of Myanmar. Manipulator modificaputis gen. et sp. n. is a morphologically unique extinct cockroach that represents the first (of a total of 29 known worldwide) cockroach family reported exclusively from the Myanmar amber. Read more

Pacific Biosciences and RainDance Technologies Partner to Co-Develop and Commercialize Novel Solution For de novo Whole Genome Assembly

MENLO PARK, Calif. and BILLERICA, Mass., May 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), provider of the PacBio® RS II Sequencing System, and RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company dedicated to simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced their entry into a co-development and co-marketing agreement to commercialize... Read more

Pacific Biosciences Introduces New Solutions for Comprehensive and Efficient Targeted Sequencing and Multiplexing of Samples

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 27, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS II Sequencing System, today announced the introduction of several new solutions for targeted sequencing applications.The company has introduced a new workflow that combines Roche NimbleGen’s SeqCap EZ enrichment technology with large DNA fragments (up to... Read more