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Med Discovery and Laborium Biopharma Extend Their Development Partnership to Include Mammalian Cell Culture Processes and Clinical Manufacturing for All Products in Med Discovery's Portfolio

Med Discovery SA, a specialized protein-based therapeutics oncology company, is proud to announce that they have extended their global partnership agreement with Laborium Biopharma, a subsidiary of Validapro BioSciences Inc. to encompass the cell culture process development and clinical manufactu...

New Study Finds Growth Factor Boosts Productivity in Mammalian Cell Culture

Leading researchers in academia and industry reveal powerful effects of recombinant lactoferrin (tradename: Lacromin) in mammalian cell culture leading to a significant boost in productivity. FORT COLLINS, Colo., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A recently published study in the scientific...

InVitria's Cellastim Delivers Superior Results in Mammalian Cell Culture

FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Steve Pettit, Director of the company's Cell Culture Group, presented results of InVitria's ( http://www.InVitria.com ) Cellastim in mammalian cell culture at the 2008 BioProcess International Conference in Anaheim, California this week. "Cellast...

KGI Offers Mammalian Cell Culture Program for Biotech Industry Professionals

CLAREMONT, Calif., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) today announced that it will conduct a five-day program for industry professionals to learn the latest developments in mammalian cell culture, from November 2-7, 2008. "Mammalian cell biotechnology has undergone explos...

Rentschler Biotechnologie Extends Capacities for Mammalian Cell Culture Manufacturing

Laupheim, Germany – June 20, 2008 / b3c newswire /  - Rentschler Biotechnologie, a leading full-service contract manufacturing organization (CMO) for the development and production of biopharmaceuticals in mammalian cells, started operation of a 2,500 L multi-process production suite....

Seth Dobin heading up Marshfield's Mammalian Genotyping Service

Marshfield, Wis. -- Research scientist Seth Dobrin, Ph.D., has been named the new head of the Center for Human Genetics' Mammalian Genotyping Service of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. He plans to apply his experience in genetics and genomics research to problems of mental health an...

Scaling-Up from Spinners, T-Flasks & Shakers: A versatile bioreactor for mammalian and microbial cells

By Chris Julien; Reprinted with permission from American Biotechnology Laboratory. Scaling up from spinners, T-flasks or shakers to a bioreactor system enables the researcher to reap the benefits of saving time. As an example of the typical savings one could exp...

Improving the accuracy and speed of mammalian cell counting

Reprinted from American Biotechnology Laboratory May 2003 BY COSTAS IOANNIDES The skill of culturing mammalian cells successfully requires consistent, accurate measurements of cell growth and viability. Cell counts must be taken daily, a task that is not only tedious...

Visualizing siRNA in Mammalian Cells: Fluorescence Analysis of the RNAi Effect

Mike Byrom, Vince Pallotta, David Brown*, and Lance Ford* Ambion, Inc. 2130 Woodward Street Austin, TX 78744-1832 * Corresponding authors dbrown@ambion.com , mammalian cells. And it should be applicable to all sorts of diseases that are modeled in yeast," she says. "In fact, that's some of the stuff we've started doi...

febit First to Offer Newly Published Mouse Genome on a Chip for DNA/RNA Detection and Enrichment

...tablished model for the study of human disease and mammalian development. At the end of May 2009, D.M. Church...e and can reveal many previously hidden secrets of mammalian biology and disease processes. Flexibel tech...g for up-to-date sequence analyses in the field of mammalian research. Biochips for other models will follow as...

KBI Biopharma Starts Cell Line Generation Process under Vendor Network Agreement for PER.C6(R)

...ion using the PER.C6(R) cell line." Mr. McMahon added, "Our KBI scientific team has extensive experience producing cell lines in microbial, insect and mammalian systems and are very pleased that Crucell and DSM have recognized our expertise by selecting KBI as a Partner for their Vendor Network." KBI is ...

New and Expanded Free Tutorials on UCSC Genome Browser Now Available

...he human genome -- now features a rich set of annotations on a multitude of mammalian and model organism genomes. The tutorial suites, created and maintained...scientists, engineers and students in the study and comparative analysis of mammalian and model organism genomes. Research Scientist Jim Kent heads up the engine...

Centocor Ortho Biotech Data to be Presented at American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting

...ndications PROCRIT is contraindicated in patients with uncontrolled hypertension or with known hypersensitivity to albumin (human) or mammalian cell-derived products. Additional Important Safety Information Patients with chronic renal failure experienced gre...

Clontech Laboratories, Inc. Releases the Xfect(TM) and Xfect(TM) Stem Transfection Reagents

... reagents. These novel transfection reagents are based on biodegradable nanoparticles that permit superior transfection efficiency of plasmid DNA into mammalian cells. For added ease of use, transfections can be carried out entirely in the presence of serum. Xfect shows high efficiency over a broad range of ce...

Frost & Sullivan Awards Precision Biosciences for Technology Innovation and Molecular Design Process in the Genomics Market

... problem that has long hindered the efforts to genetically engineer complex mammalian and plant cells." The technology innovation in DNE successfully bridge...zymes that can insert, remove, modify, and regulate essentially any gene in mammalian or plant cells. Precision BioSciences has already produced hundreds ...

Savient Announces New Date for FDA Arthritis Advisory Panel Review of KRYSTEXXA(TM) for Treatment Failure Gout

...view period and assigned a revised PDUFA date of August 1, 2009. ABOUT KRYSTEXXA(TM) KRYSTEXXA (TM) (pegloticase) is a pegylated recombinant mammalian urate oxidase in development to control hyperuricemia and its clinical consequences in patients for whom conventional therapy is contraindicated or ha...

Sigma-Aldrich Introduces MISSION(R) esiRNA for Low Cost, High Specificity Pooled RNAi Screening

...oday announced the global release of MISSION(R) esiRNA, a pool of gene-specific siRNA that provides a novel and powerful approach to RNAi screening in mammalian cells. Unlike traditional synthetic RNAi, esiRNA ( http://www.sigma.com/esirna ) incorporates a pool of hundreds of siRNAs against a single gene t...

New cow genome sequence released

... the first time. "Until the assembly is truly finished - a state that no mammalian genome, including human, has yet reached - we will continue to incorporate ...tween these closely related mammals. Although sequencing and assembly of mammalian genomes has become commonplace since the human genome was first sequenced s...

SAFC Biosciences(R) Expands Media Capability for Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cell Lines

...aterials and development services for upstream and downstream processes in the biopharmaceutical industry. Providing an integrated services package in mammalian cell culture media development, along with analytical and regulatory support, SAFC Biosciences employs a wealth of industry experience and scientific ...

Selexis Launches Biosimilar Cell Line Development Program

...clients the contract development of high producing mammalian cell lines expressing biosimilars, including expan... required to develop and maintain high-performance mammalian cell lines used in the expression of pharmaceutica...l the dynamic organization of chromatin within all mammalian cells. Application of the Selexis Genetic Elements...

SAFC Biosciences(TM) Completes Conversion of Lenexa Media Milling Facility to Animal Component Free

...aterials and development services for upstream and downstream processes in the biopharmaceutical industry. Providing an integrated services package in mammalian cell culture media development, along with analytical and regulatory support, SAFC Biosciences employs a wealth of industry experience and scientific ...

Seahorse Bioscience, Inc. Acquires BioProcessors Corp.

...The system offers Biopharmaceutical and CMO customers a strong competitive advantage in developing and optimizing production of biologic products from mammalian cell culture. "Both the XF and SimCell technologies have reached a key milestone where thought-leading customers have demonstrated their value," ...

GeneCopoeia Introduces Genome-Wide MicroRNA (miRNA) Functional Analysis Tools

...et(TM) miRNA target sequence (3' UTR) expression clones cover genome-wide human, mouse and rat genes. These expression ready constructs are made in a mammalian expression vector system with dual reporter genes, which provides a ready-for-use and single vector solution for both transcriptional regulation repor...

AcroMetrix Announces the Release of OptiQuant-S Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Panel

...econd generation viral RNA material which behaves very similar to enveloped mammalian RNA viruses like HCV or HIV. This new technology allows insertion of synthetic sequences into a mammalian RNA virus which were shown to be stable in replication and capable of formi...

DSM and Crucell Sign Agreement with Bioceros to Serve as Pre-Approved Cell Line Generation Partner of PER.C6(R) Cell Line Proteins

...y has been developed as a proprietary system to drive yield improvements in mammalian systems. "XD" stands for extreme density, as the process is able to push th...s a technology platform, consisting of generation of high protein producing mammalian cell lines, process development and pre-clinical manufacturing at 20L scale...

Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Seppro(R) Depletion Technology From GenWay Biotech

...measure more precisely the expression of protein biomarkers from a range of mammalian and plant biological samples. This acquisition covers current inventory, p...recombinant antigens. Chicken antibodies display less cross-reactivity with mammalian proteins, producing fewer false positive reactions in certain immunochemica...

USC researchers derive first embryonic stem cells from rats

...l make a huge contribution to basic and applied research and drug development, by providing a technology platform for facile genetic manipulation of a mammalian species that is widely used in academic and industrial labs studying physiology, pathology and pharmacology." Until now, authentic ES cells have ne...