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
BERGISCH GLADBACH, July 21, 2016 – The new MACSxpress® Treg Isolation Kit, human from Miltenyi Biotec facilitates both the fast and efficient isolation of regulatory T (Treg) cells from a maximum of 30 ml of fresh, anticoagulated whole blood. The MACSxpress Technique makes it possible to isolate Treg cell populations without using density gradient centrifugation and... Read more
Chalfont St Giles, UK – 13 July 2016 – GE Healthcare has acquired Biosafe Group SA, a supplier of integrated cell bioprocessing systems for the rapidly growing cell therapy and regenerative medicine industry for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Biosafe expands GE Healthcare’s end-to-end ecosystem of products, solutions and services for our cell therapy... Read more
AUTOMATED CHARACTERIZATION OF TINY VESICLES BERGISCH GLADBACH, June 21, 2016 – Miltenyi Biotec has extended its portfolio with the MACSPlex Exosome Kit, human. The fast and efficient process enables the characterization of 37 exosome surface markers in a single experiment. Studies indicate that the physiological significance of exosomes is not to be ignored. The molecular... Read more
HANOI, Vietnam, June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QIAGEN was featured this week for its efforts to eliminate cervical cancer at the 14th annual Global Summit of Women in Hanoi, Vietnam. CEO Peer Schatz came to this prominent international platform to issue a call to other leaders in business, NGOs and governments to join him and campaign... Read more
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK AND RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – 31 May 2016 – GE Healthcare is entering into a vaccine collaboration with the National Industrial Clusters Development Program (NICDP) under the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, SaudiVax and King Saud University, to enable vaccine self-sufficiency and pandemic preparedness in the Kingdom of Saudi... Read more
Beckman Coulter Diagnostics to Place Ortho’s VITROS® 3600 Systems in Very High-Volume Labs; Expands Reach for Ortho and Broadens Menu for Beckman Coulter BREA, CA, and RARITAN, NJ, June 8, 2016 — Beckman Coulter, Inc., a global developer and manufacturer of clinical diagnostic products, and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (Ortho), a global in vitro diagnostics... Read more
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
PROSTATE HEALTH INDEX (phi) BLOOD TEST GIVES YOU MORE CONFIDENCE BEFORE BIOPSY, REDUCING UNNECESSARY BIOPSIES BY 30% BREA, CALIF. — (May 6, 2016) — Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a leader in prostate cancer testing, will demonstrate its dedication to advancing healthcare for patients and physicians at the 2016 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in... Read more
St. Louis, MO – May 5, 2016 – Doctors and researchers at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis may be able to better diagnose and monitor diseases at a functional level with GE Healthcare’s next-generation SPECT/CT system, Discovery NM/CT 670 CZT. The new SPECT/CT is the world’s first general purpose, ultra-high resolution SPECT/CT... Read more