Agilent Completes CE-IVD Registration of qRT-PCR In Vitro Diagnostic Kit for SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detection

Kit expands Agilent’s product portfolio aimed at COVID-19 detection SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 09, 2021  Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the launch of a real-time reverse transcription (qRT) PCR-based diagnostic kit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The CE-IVD mark is in accordance with the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Directive 98/79/EC and... Read more

Luminex Corporation to Participate at the 2021 Barclays Global Healthcare Conference

Luminex® Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary biological testing technologies, with applications throughout the life-sciences industry. Luminex Corporation to Participate at the 2021 Barclays Global Healthcare Conference Mar 09, 2021 11:35 AM EST AUSTIN, Texas, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that Homi Shamir, Chairman, CEO & President, and... Read more

Roche announces results from Evrysdi (risdiplam) study in infants with Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) published in New England Journal of Medicine

FIREFISH Part 1 data show treatment with Evrysdi at 12 months helped 90% of these infants survive without permanent ventilation and 33% sit without support, a key motor milestone not normally seen in the natural course of the disease The FDA approved Evrysdi in August 2020 as the first and only at home SMA treatment... Read more

Agilent PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx Receives Expanded FDA Approval in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Companion diagnostic can help guide treatment decisions in cases of NSCLC SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 22, 2021  Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company’s PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx assay for expanded use in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). PD-L1 IHC 22C3... Read more

QIAGEN announces Digital Partner Program with five initial partnerships

Redwood City, California, and Hilden, Germany, February 18, 2021 – QIAGEN today announced the launch of the QIAGEN Digital Insights Partnership program for genomic vendors to leverage QIAGEN’s genomic content and analysis leadership to expand customer access and deliver extended genomic solutions for scientists and clinicians. The first group of five new partnerships involves DNAnexus,... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Recognized with Six CMO Leadership Awards

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced it has won six awards in the annual CMO Leadership Awards. The awards, presented by Life Science Leader and Outsourced Pharma, recognize top contract manufacturing partners as evaluated by biopharma and biotech companies. Thermo Fisher won across... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific and JW Therapeutics Announce CAR-T Partnership in China

Companies join forces in cell therapy applications and commercial-scale manufacturing WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has signed an agreement with JW Therapeutics, a leading cell therapy company, to ensure non-exclusive commercial access to Thermo Fisher’s Gibco CTS Dynabeads CD3/CD28. The agreement will support the clinical... Read more

Agilent Wins Trade Secret and Patent Infringement Litigation

J&X Technologies to pay Agilent more than $1.25 million in damages for “willful and malicious” theft of Agilent trade secrets  SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 01, 2021  Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has won a judgement in federal court for patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation against Shanghai-based J&X Technologies. The court victory... Read more

BioTek Receives Patent for Automated Media Exchange (AMX) Module for the MultiFlo FX Multi-Mode Dispenser

January 28, 2021 BioTek Instruments, an Agilent Technologies, Inc., company, announces that it was granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the Automated Media Exchange (AMX) module for  the MultiFlo FX Multi-Mode Dispenser. In cell biology workflows, the automated MultiFlo FX with AMX module enables hands-free, gentle, and highly consistent media exchanges and washing... Read more