GE Healthcare and Sealed Air enter an exclusive agreement to deliver film for single-use bioprocess systems

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and CHARLOTTE, NC – 17 August 2016 – GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business, a global provider of technologies and expertise to the biopharmaceutical and life sciences industries and Sealed Air Corporation, a global manufacturer of primary films for pharmaceutical solutions, today announced the expansion of a strategic alliance designed to further... Read more

Applied quality control in the chemical industry – new web pages answer your questions

We are making the chemical engineer’s life a bit more comfortable: A new section on the Metrohm website takes a comprehensive look at the methods and applications used in the quality control of the industrial manufacturing of basic chemicals, solvents, colorants, and their intermediates. Whether you are looking for a specific parameter and suitable methods... Read more

QIAGEN Exchange Offer for Digene Corporation Expired With Significant Over 90% of Shares Tendered

VENLO, The Netherlands, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QIAGEN N.V. (Nasdaq: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its offer to exchange cash and stock for all outstanding shares of Digene Corporation (Nasdaq: DIGE) expired as scheduled at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, July 20, 2007. All conditions of the exchange offer... 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

GE Healthcare launches next generation Biacore(TM) molecular interaction analysis platform

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – 13 June 2016 – GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business today launched the first of a next generation of BiacoreTM systems harnessing Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) technology. Biacore 8K marks the start of a new generation of Biacore systems maintaining the high data quality expected from Biacore at high throughput. New... Read more

Takara Bio presents HF10 Phase II clinical trial data at American Society of Clinical Oncology

2016 2016/05/19 Takara Bio presents HF10 Phase II clinical trial data at American Society of Clinical Oncology Kusatsu/Shiga, Japan — May 19, 2016 – Takara Bio Inc. announces that HF10 US Phase II clinical trial data will be presented at  the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (May29 – June 2, 2016,... Read more

JHL Biotech Opens Innovative Biosimilars Manufacturing Facility in China

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and WUHAN, CHINA – 10 May 2016 –JHL Biotech (JHL), a biopharmaceutical company, opened the world’s first KUBio™ biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with single-use bioprocessing technology at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Wuhan, China today. JHL will use the KUBio manufacturing solution delivered by GE Healthcare to manufacture biosimilars(1) and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)... Read more

Jet fuel, crude oil, diesel blends: Quality control with NIR spectroscopy

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) enables straightforward multiparameter analysis of critical parameters for monitoring the refining of hydrocarbons. NIRS is a nondestructive secondary analysis method, NIRS does not require any handling of chemicals whatsoever, and real-time measurements are performed at the push of a button. NIRS is the ideal method for a wide range of applications: Distillation... Read more

GE Healthcare expands European capabilities to support accelerated biomanufacturing

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and PASCHING, AUSTRIA – 12 April 2016 – GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business today announced that its European manufacturing and distribution site for sterile liquids has expanded its capabilities to include production of large volumes of buffers, process liquids and cell culture media, and launched a rapid production service for prototype... Read more

Charles Koontz Appointed President and CEO of GE Healthcare IT and GE Healthcare Chief Digital Officer

BARRINGTON, IL., March 9, 2016 — GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) today announced the appointment of Charles Koontz as president and CEO of GE Healthcare IT and GE Healthcare Chief Digital Officer, effective March 14. Koontz succeeds Jan De Witte, who is leaving GE. Koontz joins GE from Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) and CSRA, where he was... Read more