Announcements
Takara Bio USA, Inc. (formerly Clontech Laboratories, Inc.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., develops, manufactures, and distributes a wide range of life science research reagents under the Takara, Clontech, and Cellartis brands. To keep you up to date with the latest happenings at Takara Bio USA, we have compiled our recent announcements and press releases below.
Takara Bio USA wins EU opposition hearing on its foundational NGS library enrichment patent
Date: February 15, 2022
Categories: Press release
Learn how TBUSA’s granted European patent EP 3105325 was upheld by the European Patent Office which confirmed it's validity after an opposition claim was made against it.
Takara Bio’s technology enables Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Indiana Regional Medical Center to develop a faster COVID-19 test for rural communities
Date: April 1, 2021
Categories: Press release
Takara Bio Inc., is collaborating with Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), and Indiana Regional Medical Center (IRMC) to enable better and faster COVID-19 testing for rural communities in the United States and around the world.
Takara Bio USA, Inc. elevates the sensitivity of scRNA-seq in its continuing mission to support the efforts of single-cell researcher
Date: January 26, 2021
Categories: Press release
Takara Bio USA, Inc. continues to provide researchers improved sensitivity and performance for single-cell analysis with the launch of our recent next-generation sequencing product, SMART-Seq Single Cell Kit.
Takara Bio USA, Inc. and bioSyntagma, Inc. develop method for large-scale automated COVID-19 testing
Date: June 8, 2020
Categories: Press release
Takara Bio USA, Inc. collaborated with bioSyntagma, Inc. and their partners to develop and validate a new high-throughput method for COVID-19 testing, and are seeking an FDA Emergency Use Authorization.
Namocell, Takara Bio USA and HepaTx collaborate on single cell genomics analysis for cell therapy to treat late-stage liver diseases
Date: February 20, 2020
Categories: Press release
Namocell Inc., a leading provider of single-cell sorting and dispensing platforms, entered into a collaboration with Takara Bio and HepaTx to use Namocell's Single Cell Dispensers to perform single-cell isolation on HepaTx's unique hepatocyte-like cells (iHeps) and characterize them by single-cell RNA-seq using Takara Bio's SMART-Seq technology.
Takara Bio announces launch of human iPSC-derived intestinal epithelial cells for drug discovery research
Date: November 12, 2019
Categories: Press release
Takara Bio Inc. has launched the world's first commercially available small intestinal epithelial cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, jointly developed when Takara Bio received a technology transfer from a differentiation induction method to derive these cells from hiPSCs.
Ground-breaking single-cell transcriptomic study using ICELL8 technology reveals homogeneity in mono- and multi-nucleated adult cardiomyocytes
Date: September 9, 2019
Categories: Press release
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Heart and Lung Research are the first to apply single-cell RNA sequencing on intact, adult mouse cardiomyocytes using the ICELL8 Single-Cell System.
High-throughput surveillance study on antibiotic resistance using the automated SmartChip system
Date: May 16, 2019
Categories: Press release
Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF, and Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Hydrobiology, along with other collaborators have performed the first trans-Europe surveillance study on antibiotic resistance utilizing the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System.
Takara Bio submits Drug Master File to US FDA for RetroNectin GMP grade (liquid format)
Date: April 11, 2019
Categories: Press release
Takara Bio USA, Inc. announced today that its parent company, Takara Bio Inc., submitted a Drug Master File to the Food and Drug Administration for the liquid formulation of RetroNectin GMP grade on March 15, 2019.
High-throughput epigenetic profiling made possible in single cells with ICELL8 technology
Date: March 18, 2019
Categories: Press release
Researchers from Steven Henikoff's laboratory (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) have developed a novel epigenomic method, CUT&Tag (Cleavage Under Targets and Tagmentation), for high-throughput profiling of chromatin components in single cells on the ICELL8 Single-Cell System.
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