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Sartorius upscales gene therapy prowess with $2.6bn Polyplus acquisition

Pharmaceutical Technology

The deal will see Polyplus join the German life science group’s portfolio allowing the latter to leverage expertise in transfection reagents and plasmid DNA for gene therapy. Sartorius , through its French listed sub-group Sartorius Stedim Biotech , has signed an agreement to acquire Polyplus for €2.4bn ($2.6bn).

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LabCorp’s Innovative High-Speed COVID-19 Test Gets Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA

XTalks

LabCorp – a leading global life sciences company based in Burlington, North Carolina that focuses on advancing health and guiding patient care decisions – announced that it is the first commercial laboratory to receive an EUA from the FDA for the new, innovative, high-speed test.

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Yale-NBA Partnership Results in FDA Approval for COVID-19 SalivaDirect Test

XTalks

An important feature of the test that contributes to its reduced cost is the fact that sample processing does not require a separate nucleic acid (RNA) extraction step. This is significant because shortages of RNA extraction kits have been a recurrent issue since the beginning of the pandemic.

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The latest drug discovery product launches

Drug Discovery World

Several new products for the life sciences sector have been launched over the last month, from biomarker kits to video-based training platforms. Gyrolab Human Cytokine Kit Reagents are the first in a range of new biomarker kits from Gyros Protein Technologies. . DDW provides an update. .

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

Drug Discovery World

Nucleic acid-based diagnostics, which typically require PCR reagents and laboratory equipment, are crucial for identifying, treating, and preventing common infectious diseases. CRISPR diagnostics have successfully detected various pathogens, including RNA viruses (eg. Herpesviridae, Polyomaviridae, and Papillomaviridae), bacteria (e.g.,

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Spatial Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics Solutions – An Amelioration of Tissue Analytics

Roots Analysis

As a result, industry and non-industry stakeholders, are on the lookout for advanced platforms that can simultaneously capture the arrangement of multiple biomolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins and others) with single-cell or subcellular resolution. For more details on this emerging domain, check out the following report : SPATIAL GENOMICS MARKET.

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Reflecting on PEGS Europe 2023 

Drug Discovery World

coli expression systems and is using high-throughput expression pipelines to screen constructs for optimal expression to generate protein and cellular reagents. The Absolute Antibody team was available to discuss custom services, as well as the company’s comprehensive antibody reagent catalogue.