MINNEAPOLIS, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-Techne
Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) is pleased to announce that Lunaphore,
part of Bio-Techne's Spatial Biology Division, is partnering
with Nikon Instruments Inc. (Nikon) to expand access to
spatial biology services with the COMET™ platform for US-based
biotech, pharma, and academic customers.
Lunaphore's flagship COMET technology is the only
fully-automated, high-throughput, hyperplex platform with
superior tissue profiling capabilities, which performs protein
detection with standard, non-conjugated antibodies. The Nikon
BioImaging Lab is a research and innovation hub recently
established by Nikon in the Greater
Boston area, Massachusetts
with the overarching mission of providing contract imaging
solutions, AI-enhanced analysis and bioassay development services
to foster research and drug discovery. Together, Lunaphore and
the Nikon BioImaging Lab will be able to leverage their
complementary expertise in microscopy-based imaging and analysis to
bring COMET technology and spatial biology to the greater
scientific community.
Through this partnership, in addition to access to the COMET
platform, Nikon customers will also benefit from HORIZON™,
Lunaphore's image analysis software designed for analyzing COMET
hyperplex images, to further streamline image analysis workflow.
Researchers and clinicians can leverage the universal end-to-end
product suite to unlock the full potential of spatial biology for
their research objectives.
"The deployment of COMET at the Nikon BioImaging Lab ensures
that an expanded base of customers and researchers across the US
can access the cutting-edge capabilities of our spatial biology
solutions," said Matt McManus,
President of Bio-Techne's Diagnostics & Genomics Segment. "This
strategic partnership reflects Bio-Techne and Nikon's shared
commitment to bringing outstanding innovation to scientists and
helping push the boundaries of research."
"Nikon is very excited to have a strategic partnership with
Lunaphore," said Toshisada Matsuba,
President, CEO at Nikon Instruments Inc.
"We are pleased to provide spatial biology assay services using
Lunaphore's automated platform for hyperplex immunofluorescence
alongside the broad range of imaging solutions we offer with our
Nikon microscopes," added Fumiki Yanagawa, General Manager at
the Nikon BioImaging Lab. "Spatial biology is a dynamic area of
innovation that will shed new light on healthcare and further our
understanding of human disease and health."
About Bio-Techne
Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) is a global life sciences
company providing innovative tools and bioactive reagents for the
research and clinical diagnostic communities. Bio-Techne products
assist scientific investigations into biological processes and the
nature and progress of specific diseases. They aid in drug
discovery efforts and provide the means for accurate clinical tests
and diagnoses. With thousands of products in its portfolio,
Bio-Techne generated over $1.1
billion in net sales in fiscal 2023 and has approximately
3,100 employees worldwide. For more information on Bio-Techne and
its brands, please visit https://www.bio-techne.com or follow
the Company on social media at: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or
YouTube.
About Lunaphore
Lunaphore Technologies S.A. – a Bio-Techne brand, is a Swiss
company born in 2014 with the vision of enabling spatial biology in
every laboratory. Lunaphore provides solutions based on a
game-changing chip technology that can extract spatial proteomic
and transcriptomic data from tumors and other tissues, transforming
any assay into multiplex spatial biology through a streamlined and
easily integrated process. Lunaphore empowers researchers in
immunology, immuno-oncology, and neuroscience to push the
boundaries of scientific discovery and drug development.
Lunaphore's technology enables the identification of biomarker
"signatures" with clinical relevance to support the development of
diagnostic tools and streamline clinical trials, to ultimately
improve patient outcomes. For further information on Lunaphore and
its products, please visit https://lunaphore.com.
About COMET™
COMET™ is the only fully automated, high-throughput, hyperplex
platform ensuring scalability and reproducibility without the need
to conjugate primary antibodies. COMET™ provides walk-away
automation, integrating staining, imaging, and image preprocessing
steps to obtain standard hyperplex images. The multiomics
capability of COMET™ enables the simultaneous analysis of both RNA
and protein data within the spatial context of tissues to enhance
the understanding of cellular dynamics and disease processes.
COMET™ generates highly robust and reproducible data with full
tissue preservation, allowing researchers to perform downstream
modalities such as H&E or transcriptomics using the same slide.
Its superior tissue profiling capabilities facilitate the analysis
of 40 different spatial markers in each automated run on a tissue
slide. In contrast to other spatial biology solutions, COMET™ works
with off-the-shelf, label-free primary antibodies, making panel
design much more flexible and faster than any other hyperplex
solution. COMET™ works with regular glass slides from standard
histology workflows; it is validated for human and mouse samples
and is compatible with any other animal sample. The platform can be
used for a wide range of research applications, allowing for a
dramatic improvement in the understanding of disease pathology. To
learn more about the COMET™ platform, please visit:
https://lunaphore.com/products/comet/
About Nikon Instruments Inc.
Nikon Instruments Inc. is the US microscopy arm of Nikon
Healthcare, a world leader in the development and manufacture of
optical and digital imaging technology for biomedical applications.
For more information, please visit
https://www.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com or contact us at
1-800-52-NIKON.
About Nikon BioImaging Lab
The Nikon BioImaging Lab, established in Boston, is a fully equipped laboratory housing
a wide range of advanced microscopes and other critical
instrumentation, and staffed by experienced scientists who
collaborate with pharma, biotech and academic customers to develop
solutions for their wide-ranging needs, from cell culture to
imaging-based studies of biological tissues and bioassays.
For more information, please visit
https://www.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com/bioimaging-centers/nikon-bioimaging-labs/boston-usa
or contact us at 1-800-52-NIKON.
For further information on Lunaphore:
Lindsey Rodger, Head of
Communications
communications@lunaphore.com
Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH)
David Clair, Vice President,
Investor Relations & Corporate Development
david.clair@bio-techne.com
612-656-4416
For further information on Nikon Instruments
Inc:
Stephen Ross, Director, Product
and Marketing, Nikon Instruments Inc
nikoninstruments.us@nikon.com
Nikon BioImaging Lab:
Michael Yang, Scientific Group
Leader, Nikon BioImaging Lab
Gaurav Joshi, Senior Scientist,
Nikon BioImaging Lab
nbil.cambridge.us@nikon.com
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