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Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent To Lead Immunogenicity Course

Ana T. Menendez, Ph.D., Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent Pharma Solutions, will lead a two-day international course on immunogenicity. The course will take place at the Regus Victoria in London on Wednesday, December 2 through Thursday, December 3, 2009. The interactive course, titled “Introduction to Immunogenicity,” will enable attendees to better ...

Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent To Present Course on Bioassays

Ana T. Menendez, Ph.D., Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent Pharma Solutions, will be leading a course in Bioassay Method Development and Validation. The course is being offered through IBC Life Science on November 12-13, 2009 in Boston, MA. Menendez will present a lecture outlining sensible approaches to developing reproducible bioassays using live ...

Catalent Develops New Decorin Molecule Form, Strikes Deal With Euclid

Catalent Pharma Solutions, a leading provider of advanced technologies and outsourced development and clinical services to the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, has announced the development of the Galacorin™ molecule, a proprietary form of the decorin molecule. Catalent combined its proprietary GPEx® gene expression technology, Triplet-FixTM codon optimization technology and advanced scientific ...

LC Sciences First miRNA Microarray Service Provider to Offer Plant MicroRNA Database (PMRD) Probe Content

Taking full advantage of its flexible µParaflo® Biochip Technology, Houston based LC Sciences today announced immediate availability of probe content from the newly created Plant MicroRNA Database (PMRD) for their microRNA (miRNA) microarray customers . This announcement comes immediately following a publication in Nucleic Acids Researchintroducing the public database 1 . ...

Enabling microRNA Discoveries - LC Sciences Tops 100th Customer Publication

LC Sciences announced today the publication of the 100th peer-reviewed study by one of its customers using the company’s microarray service for analyzing microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles and for discovery of novel small RNAs. These studies, by leading researchers in the field, contribute to a fast growing body of knowledge defining ...

Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent To Lead Workshop on Immunogenicity for Biologics 2009

Ana T. Menendez, Ph.D., Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent Pharma Solutions, will be teaching a pre-conference workshop titled "Detection and Characterization of Immunogenicity of Therapeutic Biologics" on Monday, September 7, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. The course will focus on the practical technologies used to measure antibody responses to ...

Michael Jenkins, Phd, Of Catalent To Present Their GPEx® Technology At The 2009 BIO Process Theatre Taking Place At This Year’s BIO International Convention

Dr. Jenkins’ talk will focus on Catalent’s proprietary GPEx technology for mammalian cell culture engineering. The 2009 BIO International Convention takes place in Atlanta, GA, May 18-21. Dr. Jenkins’ presentation is titled “Bench to the Clinic: Using GPEx® Mammalian Cell Culture Engineering to Shorten Timelines, Reduce Risk, and Prepare for Success.” ...

Two Catalent Scientists, Dr. Tom Feinberg, Director Of Structural Chemistry Services, And Dr. Craig Davies-Cutting, Director Of Research And Development, Will Host A 45-Minute Interactive Workshop At RDD Europe 2009

Two Catalent scientists, Dr. Tom Feinberg, director of structural chemistry services, and Dr. Craig Davies-Cutting, director of research and development, will host a 45-minute interactive workshop at RDD Europe 2009. The conference is designed for academic, industrial and regulatory scientists involved in the development, investigation, preparation and delivery of existing ...

Catalent Scientist’s Article Featured by Biotechnology Industry Organization

An article written by Ana T. Menendez, Ph.D., Senior Director of Biotechnology at Catalent Pharma Solutions, was featured in the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) March 2009 e-Newsletter. The article, titled “A Guide to Accelerating Bioassay Transfer in the GMP Environment,” highlights important questions and steps to set timelines and prepare for ...

LC Sciences’ Versatile Microfluidics Chip Technology Extended to Target Selection Applications

LC Sciences has announced the availability of a custom target enrichment service for next-generation sequencing applications. LC Sciences now provides a service for Target-Specific Selection of a defined genomic region (such as Mbp region at a specific location, suspected cancer regions, SNP regions, regions for genomic comparisons) or RNA sequences ...

LC Sciences announced the availability of probe content miRBase 10.0 for their microRNA (miRNA) microarray customers

Taking advantage of its flexible µParaflo™ Chip Technology, Houston based LC Sciences today announced immediate availability of probe content miRBase 10.0 for their microRNA (miRNA) microarray customers. This announcement comes less than a week after Sanger Institute’s update of their sequence database for known miRNAs (miRBase) 1 to version 10.0 (http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/sequences). As the jump in version numbers from ...

Welcome to EPR Biotech News

EPR Biotech News is a new blog, part of EPR Network, that is going to be focused on and will be covering the biotech news and stories from press releases published on EPR Network. EPR Network (EPR stands for express press release) is one of the nation’s largest press release distribution networks on Web. The EPR’s nationwide network includes 12 State based ...

Cryo-Cell CEO Mercedes Walton Invites Women to Share Their Ideas on Self-Care and the Power of Stem Cells

Cryo-Cell International, Inc. a global leader in stem cell innovation, resolves to help women inspire and empower each other to take charge of their health in the New Year, and to spark conversations about the promise of stem cells.  The company will be accepting video entries for its “Resolution Revolution” ...

Cord Blood: Saving For The Future

For an expectant mother, there are a million details to worry about and a lot of important decisions to be made. One of those decisions to be made is whether to bank your baby's umbilical cord blood. Cord blood is valuable because it's full of stem cells scientists and doctors can use ...

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