Research Triangle Park, NC, USA and Cambridge, UK, 9 March 2021 -- Inivata, a leader in liquid biopsy, today announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation for its RaDaR™ assay.
RaDaR is a personalized assay that tracks a set of up to 48 tumor-specific variants in a patient using a liquid biopsy with exceptional sensitivity. The assay potentially allows detection of residual disease following initial treatment and early detection of relapse. RaDaR is built on Inivata’s proven InVision® liquid biopsy platform technology. This next-…
Cambridge, UK, Porto, Portugal, and London, UK – 08 March 2021: IONTAS Limited (IONTAS) and FairJourney Biologics S.A (FJB)., leaders in the discovery and optimisation of fully human antibodies, have announced that they have entered into an agreement with Quell Therapeutics Limited (Quell) regarding IONTAS / FJB’s proprietary libraries and technology platforms.
Quell is harnessing the suppressive capacity of Tregs to develop engineered Treg cell therapies to address several conditions of immune dysfunction. Under the terms of the agreement, IONTAS / FJB will provide Quell with a diverse panel…
AMSBIO announce a new HER2 control cell line array that was developed and is proven as an effective slide quality control for HER2 expression in breast cancer tissue samples.This new FFPE cell pellet microarray delivers a full dynamic range of HER2, ER and PR expression, validated by the Ventana system, to give immunohistochemical data in strong concordance with the routinely processed tissue sample.sections.Using cell line controls significantly lower the costs of immunohistochemical (IHC) examinations and fluorescence in situ hybridization (…
In the run-up to Rare Disease Day 2021 (28 February), Congenica compiled thoughts, news and opinions on the importance of rare disease diagnostics available on the live blog here.
It includes, podcasts, articles and a range of videos with:
- Lynsey Chediak, Project Lead at World Economic Forum discussing what rare disease and precision medicine means to her.
- Jeff D'Angelo, founder of the CHAMP1 Foundation shares with us his thoughts on Rare Disease Day, the community and his son, JJ.
- Allison Watson, founder and CEO of the Ring20 Research and Support group UK, talks to…
In our recent post, we have produced a clear summary infographic of all the key Covid-19 vaccines in full or early use, globally. We've included peer-review references where available, including efficacies, to help you to get up to speed quickly.
https://onyva-agency.com/2021/02/26/global-covid-19-vaccine-summary-and…
New data reveals Knowledge Intensive (KI) firms in Cambridge continue to outperform national figures
Cambridge, UK. 3 March 2021: Medium term data on the growth of the Cambridge economy, right up to the start of the 2020 Covid lockdown, shows persistently higher annual growth rates than the national economy, particularly amongst knowledge-intensive (KI) firms. This confirms Cambridge’s status as one of the largest concentrations of KI employment in Europe. However, there are also indications that start-ups and non-KI firms are finding conditions in the city less attractive. The authoritative data released today via the Cambridge Cluster Insights dashboard by the Centre…
PHILADELPHIA and OXFORD, March 2, 2021 - WuXi AppTec, a leading global provider of R&D- and manufacturing-enabling services in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of OXGENE, a pioneering United Kingdom-based contract research and development organization that designs and develops scalable gene therapy technologies. This acquisition enables WuXi AppTec to offer its customers end-to-end support in the creation and development of cutting-edge cell and gene therapies for patients in need worldwide.
OXGENE…
Cambridge, UK, 02 March 2021: CN Bio, a leading developer of single and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), otherwise known as organ-on-a-chip, today announced it has received a grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to develop human-relevant MPS to advance investigations into SARS-CoV-2 infection. The funding will be used to develop and test advanced cell culture models that represent different regions of the lung and subsequently linking these models to other organ systems, such as liver and gut, to inform the rapid development of novel therapeutics.
The fast-moving…