HORIBA Boosts Development and Production of Optical Analysis and Measurement Instruments in the U.S.

August 20, 2018 HORIBA New Jersey Optical Spectroscopy Center to Open HORIBA, Ltd. (Head Office: Kyoto, Japan; hereinafter, “HORIBA”) announced today the relocation of its development and production center for optical analysis and measurement instruments. The relocation will take place within the U.S. state of New Jersey, moving from Edison to Piscataway, with the Center... Read more

Unchained Labs just couldn’t take it anymore, frees the Big Kahuna!

August 20, 2018 – Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting biologics researchers the right tool for the job, renamed its flagship workflow solution today. Freeslate is now the Big Kahuna. “We really love this product and it deserved to be a part of the Unchained Labs family,” said Taegen Clary, VP... Read more

China National Drug Administration grants rapid approval of Roche’s Alecensa (alectinib) as a treatment for ALK-positive lung cancer

Basel, 20 August 2018 China National Drug Administration grants rapid approval of Roche’s Alecensa (alectinib) as a treatment for ALK-positive lung cancer Approval follows priority review of Alecensa in China, just eight and nine months after EMA and FDA approvals, respectively Supporting data showed Alecensa significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death by... Read more

RedShiftBio Strengthens Focus on Applications with New Hire

AuthorBy B0ydR0nRSBPosted onAugust 17, 2018 Following the successful introduction of the AQS3TMpro, a protein characterization platform that allows users to ‘See Change in the secondary structure of proteins, the company is directing its focus to application development. Valerie Ivancic has joined the team as an Applications Scientist. She brings experience in the biophysical characterization of amyloid... Read more

Ubiquigent Awarded Innovate UK Grant, Closes Further Round of Investment and Strengthens Management Team

Dundee, UK, 15th August 2018: Ubiquigent Limited, a company focused on enabling and supporting ubiquitin system targeted drug discovery, announced today that it was awarded a new grant from Innovate UK as part of its Investor Accelerator Pilot to support a project entitled; ‘The development of novel compounds to seed a neurodegeneration drug discovery programme’.... Read more

Gyros Protein Technologies introduces Gyrolab CHO-HCP E3G Kit for impurity testing of biotherapeutics

Incorporates Cygnus Technologies’ gold standard reagents Ready-to-use immunoassay kit designed to increase productivity Uppsala, Sweden, 13 August 2018 Gyros Protein Technologies AB, a pioneer in automated nanoliter-scale immunoassays and leading provider of peptide synthesizers and reagents, today introduced Gyrolab® CHO-HCP E3G Kit for impurity analysis in the CMC (chemistry manufacturing and controls) – bioprocess workflow of biotherapeutics.... Read more

Agilent First to Release Software Supporting Standardized Data Format for Pharmaceutical Industry

Agilent First to Release Software Supporting Standardized Data Format for Pharmaceutical Industry SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 8, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today the release of a new version of its chromatography data system that enables laboratories to export files in the Allotrope Data Format (ADF), an emerging standard developed by a consortium... Read more

Robert Wicke Appointed as New CEO of Halo Labs

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Halo Labs, a venture-backed scientific instrumentation company developing high-throughput biopharmaceutical quality control tools, today announced the appointment of Robert Wicke as Chief Executive Officer. Robert is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience growing successful life science instrumentation companies through the commercialization of innovative new products and inorganic growth. Prior to... Read more

Forbes Insights and IDEX Health & Science LLC Report Finds Life Science Sector is ‘Behind’ the Collaboration Curve

Rohnert Park, CA, July 30, 2018 — A survey of three technology-intensive industries has found a growing share of executives, including 68% of life science executives, see active and meaningful collaboration with their suppliers as essential to their future success/innovation/competitive advantage. 180 executives from the life science, pharmaceuticals, and aviation industries took part in the... Read more

MilliporeSigma and InnoCore Pharmaceuticals to Improve Patient Compliance with New Drug Delivery Technology

News Release July 26, 2018 Your Contact: Karen Tiano +1 978 495 0093 Platform for creating sustained release formulations for virtually any class of biological API Eliminates pharmaceutical development hurdles MilliporeSigma’s global footprint makes InnoCore’s proprietary SynBiosys® drug delivery technology platform more widely available Burlington, Massachusetts, July 26, 2018 — MilliporeSigma and InnoCore Pharmaceuticals; Groningen, Netherlands, have... Read more