Merck To Collaborate with GenScript to Accelerate Cell and Gene Therapy Industrialization in China

Collaboration to build global-standard platform for plasmid and virus manufacturing in China

20-Mar-2019 - Merck announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese biotech company GenScript for a strategic alliance focusing on plasmid and viral vector manufacturing. “Manufacturing of high-quality plasmid and viral vectors is one of the most critical components in the ...

GenScript to Synthesize Yeast Genome with Johns Hopkins Scientists

27-Aug-2012 - GenScript announced that it will participate in the Synthetic Yeast Genome Sc2.0 Project, initiated and organized by Dr. Jef Boeke of Johns Hopkins University's (JHU) School of Medicine. Under the guidance of Dr. Boeke and his research lab, GenScript will complete the synthesis of a bulk length ...

World's Top Gene Synthesis Companies Establish Tough Biosecurity Screening Protocol

International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC) to Coordinate Best Practices in Risk Reduction

24-Nov-2009 - Five gene synthesis companies announced agreement that they will apply a common screening protocol to promote biosecurity in the gene synthesis industry. By screening the sequences of synthetic gene orders and the customers who place them, the companies aim to support government efforts to ...

Mirror-Image Peptide Drug Discovery Provides a Novel Route for Early Drug Screening

30-Aug-2007 - GenScript Corporation has made a new addition to its collection of early drug discovery services, a means of circumventing one problem that troubles peptide drug discovery: the peptide leads involved in such studies are highly susceptible to degradation from common endogenous proteases. One ...