Bio-Techne announces new distribution agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific

07-May-2024 - Bio-Techne Corporation to announce a significant milestone in its commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions to its customers. Effective May 1, 2024, Bio-Techne will enter into a strategic distribution agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific in Europe. This partnership marks an important ...

Glow sticks – Not just for parties anymore

University of Houston researcher using popular party favor to detect biothreats for US Navy

12-Jan-2024 - Remember that party where you were swinging glow sticks above your head or wearing them as necklaces? Fun times, right? Science times, too. Turns out those fun party favors are now being used by a University of Houston researcher to identify emerging biothreats for the United States Navy. It’s ...

Beckman Coulter and Fujirebio enter into partnership

The goal is a patient-friendly, blood-based Alzheimer's disease test

22-Sep-2023 - Beckman Coulter Diagnostics and Fujirebio announced a new partnership combining their respective immunoassay strengths to support therapeutic development, clinical trials, reimbursement, and routine clinical adoption in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. The burden of disability and deaths ...

Paper-based device developed for rapid diagnosis of lung diseases

CSIC researchers have coordinated the design of an instrument that combines paper microfluidics and electrochemical transduction.

03-Aug-2023 - A device that combines microfluidics on paper, electrochemical transduction and immunoassays on magnetic nanoparticles is capable of detecting biomarkers of inflammation in sputum samples, useful for the easy and rapid diagnosis of lung diseases. The research is coordinated by the Institute of ...

Wyss Institute at Harvard University launches SPEAR Bio

Spear Bio is working towards commercializing its first assay, which accurately assesses levels of SARS-CoV-2-neutralizing antibodies in dried-blood spot samples

13-Sep-2022 - The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Spear Bio, Inc. announced that the Institute’s DNA nanotechnology-driven ultrasensitive SPEAR protein-detection technology has been licensed to the newly formed Boston-based startup. Spear Bio has signed a ...

Gyros Protein Technologies and Cygnus Technologies Sign Licensing and Supply Agreement

12-Jul-2018 - Gyros Protein Technologies AB and Cygnus Technologies announced they have signed a licensing and supply agreement. Under the agreement, Cygnus Technologies will supply Gyros Protein Technologies with its proprietary reagents for host cell protein analysis, enabling the development of new Gyrolab® ...

AYOXXA and Grünenthal Completed Research Collaboration

25-Jun-2015 - AYOXXA Biosystems and Grünenthal have completed a first research collaboration to validate detection limits for a biomarker based on AYOXXA’s innovative proprietary technology platform. The focus of this study was to analyze an inflammation marker at very low concentrations released from human ...

Diaxonhit Enters into Exclusive Partnership Agreement with Japanese Tosoh Group for Marketing Immunoassay Instruments

18-Oct-2013 - Diaxonhit strengthens its offering in the field of immunoassays for clinical laboratories with the signing by InGen, its commercialization affiliate, of a partnership agreement with the Japanese group Tosoh Europe NV for the marketing of immunoassay instruments in France and its overseas ...

Synthesis of parasite surface sugars with vaccine potential

23-Jul-2013 - Chemists in the United States have synthesised arrays of immunosugars that occur on the surface of the Chagas disease parasite that have shown potential as a vaccine against the disease. Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanasoma cruzi. It is transmitted through blood sucking beetles in ...

Disposable immunosensor for determination of leptin in serum and breast milk

07-May-2013 - Scientists in Spain have developed a disposable magnetic bead-based immunosensor to detect the hormone leptin. Leptin helps regulate food intake and is thought to play a role in obesity. This new sensor is very sensitive with a lower limit of detection than current immunoassays. The sensor was ...