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Bio-Techne Corporation reports news about its global life sciences business, which supplies reagents, analytical instruments and precision diagnostics for research, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and clinical diagnostic customers. Company updates commonly cover financial results, cash dividends, investor conference presentations and demand trends across large pharma, emerging biotech and academic markets.
Product news centers on Bio-Techne's R&D Systems™, Bio-Techne Spatial™ and Bio-Techne Diagnostics™ portfolios. Recent recurring themes include spatial biology workflow additions for the COMET™ suite, SPYRE™ antibody panels and amplification kits, GMP-grade reagents for cell and gene therapy workflows, and the Ella cartridge-based immunoassay platform for translational research and clinical applications.
ScaleReady has awarded a $300,000 G-Rex® Grant to BrainChild Bio to support the development of BCB-276, an autologous CAR-T therapy for treating diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), an incurable pediatric brain tumor. The grant is part of ScaleReady's $20M initiative to advance cell and gene-modified cell therapy development.
BrainChild Bio plans to advance BCB-276 into a multi-center Phase 2 pivotal clinical trial in 2025. The grant will help optimize their G-Rex based CAR-T cell manufacturing process, offering process simplicity, consistency, and flexibility. Additionally, BrainChild Bio will have the option to evaluate CellReady's standardized 7-day CAR-T cell process, which uses closed system G-Rex bioreactors and Bio-Techne's ProPak GMP cytokines.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) has announced the launch of new AI-engineered designer proteins through its R&D Systems brand. The expanded portfolio includes IL-2 Heat Stable Agonist, Activin A Hyperactive, FGF basic Heat Stable (available in both RUO and GMP formats), and three Wnt/RSPO Agonist proteins.
These innovative proteins are specifically engineered using advanced AI-based design platforms and protein evolutionary workflows to enhance cellular therapy processes and research applications. The products feature improved functionalities such as hyperactivity, enhanced receptor affinities, and improved heat stability, leveraging generative AI trained on nearly five decades of proteomic leadership.
The new proteins are designed to address critical needs in cell culture performance and optimization, particularly in cellular therapy applications, stem cell research, organoid development, and regenerative medicine.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) announced its participation at Phacilitate's Advanced Therapies Week, scheduled for January 20-23, 2025, in Dallas, Texas. The company will showcase its new ProPak™ GMP cytokines and cell and gene therapy solutions at booth 517.
Key highlights include the integration of ProPak liquid GMP cytokines with Wilson Wolf's G-Rex® bioreactor through ScaleReady, offering a closed process solution for T cell manufacturing. The company will also display the Ella™ automated ELISA platform and Simple Plex™ assays for QC release testing.
Dr. David Hermanson, Principal Scientist, will deliver a breakout session on closed system manufacturing on January 21 and host a product demonstration on January 22, focusing on ProPak cytokines integration in T cell manufacturing workflows. Will Geist, President of Bio-Techne's Protein Sciences Segment, emphasized the company's commitment to efficient manufacturing of cell and gene-modified cell therapies.
ScaleReady has awarded a $125,000 G-Rex Grant to Seattle Children's Therapeutics, a division of Seattle Children's Research Institute. The grant will support the integration of advanced technologies into their CAR-T cell platform, which has already utilized G-Rex bioreactors to manufacture cell therapy products for hundreds of clinical trial participants.
As part of the grant, Seattle Children's Therapeutics will explore fully closed G-Rex bioreactors and Bio-Techne's GMP-grade cytokines to optimize manufacturing for future trials. They will also receive early access to G-Rex product development and participate in evaluating new devices, including cell separation technology that isolates T-cells without expensive instrumentation.
This grant is part of ScaleReady's larger $20M initiative to advance cell and gene-modified cell therapy development and manufacturing, with individual grants worth up to $300,000.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) has won another legal case against Miltenyi Biotec in the Cologne Regional Court, Germany, regarding the unauthorized reverse engineering of Bio-Techne's proprietary NKG2C/CD159c antibodies. The court found that Miltenyi's antibodies had 100% identical variable regions to Bio-Techne's R&D Systems branded products.
This victory follows a similar 2023 case where Miltenyi was found to have reverse engineered Bio-Techne's TIGIT and CCR-7 antibodies. The court has awarded Bio-Techne monetary damages for sales of the reverse engineered antibodies, reimbursement of costs for demonstrating copying, and rights to additional information about Miltenyi's unlawful activities. Miltenyi retains the right to appeal the ruling.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) has announced that its President and CEO, Kim Kelderman, will deliver a presentation at the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. PST. Interested parties can access a live webcast of the presentation through Bio-Techne's Investor Relations website's IR Calendar page.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) has announced a strategic co-marketing and co-promotion agreement with Waters to enhance biotherapeutic characterization and development processes. The partnership combines Bio-Techne's MauriceFlex™ System for charge separation with Waters' BioAccord™ LC-MS System for liquid chromatography mass spectrometry.
The collaboration has already yielded joint activities in late 2024, including an application note, webinar, and presentations at major conferences such as CASSS MS, Festival of Biologics, and PEGS EU. Scientists from both companies are currently working on analyzing additional biomolecule classes, with plans to showcase results at upcoming scientific conferences through various formats including application notes and webinars.
ScaleReady, along with Wilson Wolf Manufacturing, Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH), and CellReady, has awarded a G-Rex® Grant to Moonlight Bio to support their CAR T cell therapy development for solid tumors. The grant is part of ScaleReady's $20M initiative to advance cell and gene-modified cell therapy development.
The grant provides Moonlight Bio with access to a commercial CAR T manufacturing platform, funding for IND-enabling studies validation runs, Bio-Techne's ProPak™ and GMP Cytokines, and optional analysis of manufacturing batch records by CellReady. Individual grants are worth up to $300,000.
Moonlight Bio's technology is based on research published in Nature, focusing on enhancing engineered T cell therapies by utilizing mutations from T cell malignancies.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) has announced a new distribution partnership with MedSanTek to expand its product reach across Turkey and Azerbaijan. The agreement enables MedSanTek to distribute Bio-Techne's portfolio of brands including R&D Systems, Novus, Tocris, Protein Simple, Advanced Cell Diagnostics, and Asuragen.
MedSanTek, founded in the late 2000s, is a leading in vitro diagnostics and research products distributor in the region, specializing in molecular biology, immunology, cancer research, and cell therapy. The partnership aims to leverage MedSanTek's local market expertise and distribution network to enhance Bio-Techne's presence in Turkey and Azerbaijan's biotechnology, laboratory, and hospital sectors.
Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH) has launched a new ESR1 mutation monitoring assay through its brand Asuragen. The research-use-only assay includes a qPCR detection kit and an isolation kit for cell-free DNA and exosomal RNA. The technology is designed to detect 11 ESR1 ligand-binding domain mutations with high sensitivity, particularly relevant for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) metastatic breast cancer patients.
The assay combines QuantideX® qPCR ESR1 exoMutation Kit with ExoLution™ Plus cfDNA + exoRNA Isolation Kit, offering enhanced sensitivity through detection of both cell-free DNA and exosomal RNA signals. This advancement is significant as ESR1 mutations appear in up to 40% of HR+ metastatic breast cancer patients following endocrine therapy, indicating treatment resistance.