Three Industry Leaders Form New Venture to Create Scalable Manufacturing Platforms for Cell and Gene Therapies

JANUARY 21, 2020 MIAMI, Fla., January 21, 2020 – Bio-Techne, Fresenius Kabi, and Wilson Wolf have formed a new joint venture company to provide dedicated support to researchers and biopharmaceutical companies in the field of cell and gene therapy. The joint venture will focus on providing scalable manufacturing technologies and processes needed to develop and commercialize... Read more

JEOL Ltd. Acquires IDES

2020/01/17 JEOL Ltd. (headquartered in Akishima, Tokyo; JEOL hereafter) acquired all shares of INTEGRATED DYNAMIC ELECTRON SOLUTIONS, INC. (headquartered in California, USA; IDES hereafter), an entrepreneurial venture specialized in technologies related to transmission electron microscopy (TEM hereafter), and made IDES its wholly-owned subsidiary. Background And Objective JEOL is driving continuous and sustainable growth by implementing... Read more

Shimadzu and Providence Cancer Institute Partner to Advance Cancer Immunotherapy Research

Jan 17, 2020 Shimadzu Corporation and the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, a division of Providence Cancer Institute (Providence) in Portland, Oregon, have entered into a joint research agreement to apply mass spectrometry technology to develop tools for personalized cancer immunotherapeutics. Shimadzu and Providence will develop technologies to reliably identify cancer antigens recognized by an... Read more

Divestment of EMS Brüel & Kjær

17 January 2020 – Spectris plc (‘Spectris’) (LSE: SXS), the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that, together with Macquarie Corporate Holdings Pty Limited (‘Macquarie’), it has agreed to divest the EMS Brüel & Kjær joint venture (‘EMS B&K’) to Envirosuite Limited (‘Envirosuite’). Envirosuite is an environmental management technology company and is listed on... Read more

DHL Global Forwarding partners with Xylem Watermark for critical aid shipments and humanitarian logistics support around the world

The two companies have previously joined forces to provide humanitarian assistance to communities in Africa and Asia following water-related natural disasters Expanding their commercial partnership will help Xylem to continue responding to water crises across the globe more efficiently MIAMI & RYE BROOK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 16, 2020– DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight... Read more

Agilent Collaborates with University Researchers Investigating Risk Factors for Eczema

Agilent Collaborates with University Researchers Investigating Risk Factors for Eczema SANTA CLARA, Calif. , January 16, 2020 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is collaborating with researchers at two UK universities who are looking into the risk factors for atopic eczema (also known as atopic dermatitis), a chronic skin condition that affects one in five children... Read more

New Technological Leader in Particle Characterization

On 1 January 2020 the companies RETSCH Technology GmbH, Microtrac Europe GmbH and BEL Europe GmbH have merged to become the new Microtrac Retsch GmbH. This new constellation allows users of particle characterization in the EMEA region to access the broadest product portfolio worldwide from one single source. Under the brand name Microtrac MRB the company provides systems... Read more

LabCorp to Adopt Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Ion Torrent Genexus Next-Generation Sequencing System and Pan-Cancer Assay for Use in Oncology Research and Development

January 14, 2020 06:39 AM Eastern Standard Time BURLINGTON, N.C. & CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LabCorp® (NYSE: LH) announced it will adopt the Ion Torrent Genexus System* and Oncomine Precision Assay* for use in research and development of companion diagnostics as well as other future oncology and precision medicine applications. LabCorp will also evaluate the potential for... Read more

Swift Biosciences Partners with MGI for High Throughput Genomic Sequencing

(ANN ARBOR, Mich. – January 14, 2020) Swift Biosciences, Inc. (“Swift”), a leader in design and manufacturing of unique DNA and RNA library preparation and normalization kits for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), and MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), a subsidiary of BGI Group, today announced a co-marketing agreement for Swift’s DNA and RNA library preparation products... Read more

Neogen acquires Italian food safety company

CONTACT: Steve Quinlan, Vice President & CFO, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., Jan. 13, 2020 — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has acquired Italy-based Diessechem S.R.L. — a distributor of food and feed safety diagnostics for the past 27 years. With the acquisition, Diessechem’s operations will stay in Milan, and will be managed through Neogen’s... Read more