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Berkeley Lights launches Beacon Select™, a new optofluidic system for cell line development

Berkeley Lights, Inc., a life sciences tools company, today announced the launch of the Beacon Select™, the company's new optofluidic system for cell line development (CLD).

From Bruker Cellular Analysis 19 Jan 2023

High affinity antibodies isolated to safely target Claudin 6-positive tumors

Integral Molecular, the industry leader in antibody discovery for membrane proteins, has published the targeting mechanism enabling best-in-class specificity of its Claudin 6 (CLDN6) antibody CTIM-76 being developed for cancer therapy with Context Therapeutics.

6 Jan 2023

Antibody discovery could explain why so many group A strep vaccines have failed

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered an antibody with the potential to protect against Strep A infection, as well as a rare form of antibody binding, that leads to an effective immune response against bacteria.

12 Dec 2022

Broadly cross-reactive antibodies that protect from SARS-CoV-2 variants are revealed by virus coldspot-driven discovery

A recent study identified neutralizing antibodies against conserved SARS-CoV-2 epitopes.

30 Nov 2022

Hemagglutinin stem immunogens may hold the key for broad protection against influenza A viruses

Researchers proposed that vaccines targeting the immunosubdominant yet conserved hemagglutinin (HA) stem could trigger broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against influenza A viruses.

15 Nov 2022

Study provides a guide to neutralizing Lassa virus using a trio of rare antibodies

A new study from scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) gives researchers a guide to neutralizing Lassa virus using a trio of rare antibodies isolated from survivors of Lassa virus infection.

26 Oct 2022

Insights into the products and services of Azenta

This interview talks to Andre Kotze about the different services and products available at Azenta.

From Azenta Life Sciences 8 Aug 2022

LJI acquires Carterra LSA instrument to enhance antibody screening and characterization efforts

Carterra, Inc., the world leader in innovative technologies enabling high-throughput biology, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology, a globally recognized non-profit research organization dedicated to understanding the power of the immune system to promote human health, announced today that LJI has acquired a Carterra LSA instrument to enhance its antibody screening and characterization work.

2 Aug 2022

Curia Adopts the Berkeley Lights Platform to Expand its Antibody Discovery Capabilities

Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, and Curia, formerly AMRI, a leading contract research, development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced Curia’s adoption of The Beacon® Optofluidic system and workflows from Berkeley Lights to accelerate and expand its antibody-based drug discovery capabilities.

From Bruker Cellular Analysis 6 Jun 2022

Dotmatics Biology Solution for Antibody Discovery streamlines data collection and workflows to accelerate antibody research and therapies

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From Dotmatics 5 May 2022

Antibodies that neutralize most sarbecoviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 variants

Researchers isolate three mAbs that broadly neutralized sarbecoviruses and carried out virological and structural studies of these mAbs.

21 Apr 2022

Fortis Life Sciences acquires Abcore, a leader in nanobody technologies

Fortis Life Sciences has acquired Abcore, a San Diego, California, USA based antibody discovery platform specializing in nanobody technology. With the addition of Abcore, Fortis extends its capabilities into the antibody discovery market serving biopharma customers developing antibody and nanobody-based therapeutics.

From Fortis Life Sciences 3 Mar 2022

New cryo-EM method may be able to shortcut a big step in modern vaccine development

Scientists at Scripps Research have devised a method that may be able to shortcut one of the big steps in modern vaccine development.

20 Jan 2022

Novel antibody that targets the N-terminal domain of SARS-CoV-2 identified

A new study discusses the targeted discovery of NTD-reactive antibodies from an individual who had recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection.

19 Jan 2022

Production of molecular probes of spike and subdomains for all SARS-CoV-2 variants

Researchers designed molecular probes of diverse SARS-CoV-2 variants and evaluated their antibody binding specificity.

3 Jan 2022

The use of monoclonal antibodies against infectious pathogens

Joshua Tan of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health wrote a review article in the journal DNA and Cell Biology about the role of monoclonal antibodies and briefly described a study on bispecific antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2.

30 Dec 2021

Sartorius strengthens its bioanalytics portfolio by acquiring a majority stake in ALS Automated Lab Solutions

The life science group Sartorius is expanding its bioanalytics portfolio by acquiring a majority stake in ALS Automated Lab Solutions GmbH.

From Sartorius 16 Dec 2021

Systematic survey of human SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies

Scientists have mined information from several research publications and patents to create a dataset of approximately 8000 human antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike from more than 200 donors.

2 Dec 2021

Scientists develop a high-throughput, cell-free screening platform for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody discovery

Scientists from Northwestern University, USA, have recently developed a high-throughput, automated screening platform to rapidly identify anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies. The study is currently available on the bioRxiv* preprint server.

8 Nov 2021

Unexpected antibody discovery provides new insight into how the body responds to malaria infection

Malaria, a pathogen transmitted into blood by mosquitoes in tropical climates, is typically thought of as a blood and liver infection.

3 Nov 2021