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businesswire | August 31, 2023

Watchmaker Genomics, a supplier of innovative products for molecular analysis, today announced a multi-year, co-exclusive agreement with Exact Sciences Corporation, a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, to develop and commercialize the breakthrough DNA methylation analysis technology, TET-assisted pyridine borane sequencing (TAPS). Watchmaker will apply its expertise in engineering DNA-modifying enzymes to further improve the TAPS chemistry, ultimately enabling advan...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Mekonos | November 24, 2020

Mekonos, a biotech organization launching the first-of-its kind system-on-a-chip (SoC) for focused ex vivo gene engineering, today reported it has finished a $4.6 million financing round. Mekonos will utilize the new funding to quicken the SoC stage for its current and new ad organizations. The SoC stage, with IP from Stanford University, is a breakthrough that allows for molecular delivery in gene editing and synthetic biology. The stage is versatile over all cell types and has demonstrated to ...

Research

Insilico Medicine | March 15, 2021

Insilico Medicine, an AI drug discovery company, reported that UCB will incorporate Insilico's Chemistry42™ into UCB's inward drug discovery pipeline. UCB's initial appropriation of Insilico Medicine's restrictive innovation will give UCB's researchers the capacity to plan novel hit compounds that fulfill various predefined boundaries quickly and smooth out lead enhancement. With the Chemistry42™ platform, UCB researchers will likewise lessen the endeavors and exp...

MedTech

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. | December 28, 2021

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. announced that initial testing of COVISTIX on recombinant N proteins demonstrated its ability to detect the Omicron variant, in addition to detecting the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and its other major VoCs such as the delta and delta-plus strains. The COVISTIX detection levels were similar for all variants. The ease of use and timely detection of Omicron infection was demonstrated by a recent case report of a Mexico patient infected with the Omicron variant detected fi...