Waters Corporation and Princeton University Announce Multi-Year Research Collaboration

Agreement to take on real-world challenges in biologics and materials research

28-Jun-2023 - Waters Corporation announced a multi-year research collaboration with Princeton University that will enable scientists, faculty, and students to work together to bring theirdiverse skills and backgrounds to solve complex challenges in biochemistry and materials science. "Solving the biggest ...

Waters and Sartorius Expand Collaboration to Deliver Comprehensive Bioanalytics for Downstream Biomanufacturing

06-Jun-2023 - Waters Corporation and Sartorius announced a new collaboration to develop integrated analytical solutions for downstream biomanufacturing, expanding their joint agreement that began with upstream bioprocessing analytics. Software and hardware integrations between the Waters™ PATROL™ ...

Scientists identify cancer biomarkers in breast milk

Proteins could one day allow breast cancer screening to be done with a blood test

07-Apr-2022 - A simple blood test for women of all ages and risk levels could one day be possible thanks to a new set of protein biomarkers that researchers identified using breast milk. “Although mammograms are a useful tool for catching breast cancer early, they aren’t typically recommended for low-risk ...

Crybaby: The vitamins in your tears

13-Jan-2017 - Babies cry easily, but those tears may help shed light on the role and potential uses of vitamins in tears. Maryam Khaksari, a research specialist at the Chemical Advanced Resolution Methods (ChARM) Laboratory at Michigan Tech, is the lead author of a paper on the subject. "Our goal was to seek ...

Here comes ‘NoBody,’ a microprotein on a mission

06-Dec-2016 - Yale researchers have helped identify a novel, functional “microprotein” encoded in the human genome, using a technique that has revealed more than 400 new proteins too tiny to be found by other means. One of those microproteins, called NoBody, is a molecular workhorse involved in sweeping out ...

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria turns immune system against itself

25-Nov-2013 - Around 20 percent of all humans are persistently colonized with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a leading cause of skin infections and one of the major sources of hospital-acquired infections, including the antibiotic-resistant strain MRSA. University of Chicago scientists have recently ...

AB SCIEX Achieves ISO 13485 Certification for Manufacturing of LC/MS Systems

22-May-2012 - AB SCIEX announced that it has achieved ISO 13485 certification for its quality management system. ISO 13485 is an international standard that requires a manufacturer to demonstrate a comprehensive and compliant quality management system suitable for the design and manufacturing of medical ...

Agilent Technologies Announces New Leadership in Biological Systems Division

16-Feb-2010 - Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the appointments of Robert Schueren as vice president and general manager, Genomics; and John Fjeldsted, Ph.D., as general manager, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. “The life sciences and biological systems business continues to be a key growth driver ...

American Peptide Company Announces Expansion of Its GMP Manufacturing Facility

Company expands capacity to accommodate large scale peptide production for growing customer base

29-Jan-2009 - American Peptide Company, Inc. announced the expansion of its state-of-the-art GMP peptide manufacturing facility in Vista, California. The facility expansion will increase the company’s large-scale peptide production capacity as well as enable it to continue to provide high quality peptides to ...

Existing Anti-Obesity Drugs May Be Effective Against Flu, Hepatitis and HIV

06-Oct-2008 - Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism, and existing anti-obesity drugs may represent a new way to block these metabolic changes and inhibit viral infection, according to a study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. Metabolism refers to all the reactions by which living ...