National Center for Biotechnology Information

GenScript | November 10, 2020

GenScript USA Inc., the world's leading research reagent provider, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the cPass™ SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Antibody Detection Kit. This is the first commercially available test to specifically detect neutralizing antibodies without the use of live virus. Neutralizing antibodies, a subset of antibodies that are specifically able to block the ability of the virus to enter a cel...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY, INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

GenScript ProBio | February 24, 2023

GenScript ProBio, a renowned Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), has recently entered a strategic partnership agreement with RVAC Medicines Pte. Ltd., a biotech company specializing in the development and commercialization of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics. The collaboration is aimed at manufacturing GMP-grade plasmid DNA (pDNA) for the RVM-V001 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate, as well as supporting future therapeutic pipelines. GenScript ProBio will offe...

MEDICAL

Mission Bio | March 30, 2022

Mission Bio, Inc., a pioneer in high-throughput single-cell DNA and multi-omics research, announced the commercial availability of the Tapestri Solution for Solid Tumor Research. On the Tapestri Platform, this new end-to-end single-cell DNA sequencing process comprises a nuclei isolation prep technique, pre-designed research panels for breast cancer and glioblastoma multiforme, and an enhanced single-cell copy number variation (CNV) bioinformatic analysis tool. Mission Bio currently covers solid...

MEDICAL

Westlake Village BioPartners | December 15, 2020

Westlake Village BioPartners today announced the launch of two new funds totaling $500 million to build and put resources into promising life sciences organizations with transformative therapeutic technologies. The first fund, known as Opportunity 1, is $70 million and permits Westlake to contribute extra Series B or later-round capital into promising organizations they incubated or invested into with their original fund, Westlake BioPartners 1 (WBP1). One example is a begin...