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Playground - The Next Evolution in Sexual Wellness - Redefines Pleasure with New Mood Maker Intimacy Oil

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Playground, the pioneering sexual wellness brand co-founded by Christina Aguilera, is thrilled to unveil its latest innovation, Mood Maker, a clean, pH-balanced intimacy oil that revolutionizes the way we experience pleasure. Crafted with a vagina-safe formula, Mood Maker uses botanical aphrodisiacs to promote arousal and support a healthy libido. The product marks Playground's first release following its inaugural line of clinically tested,vagina-healthy personal lubricants. Within this new product category, Playground will continue to create good-for-you pleasure essentials intentionally designed for women.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Playground , the pioneering sexual wellness brand co-founded by Christina Aguilera, is thrilled to unveil its latest innovation, Mood Maker, a clean, pH-balanced intimacy oil that revolutionizes the way we experience pleasure.
  • Crafted with a vagina-safe formula, Mood Maker uses botanical aphrodisiacs to promote arousal and support a healthy libido.
  • Within this new product category, Playground will continue to create good-for-you pleasure essentials intentionally designed for women.
  • Prioritizing vaginal health over topical irritants, Mood Maker is a botanical masterpiece designed to enhance pleasure, kindle desire, and support a healthy libido.

Orna Therapeutics Unveils Progress of Circular RNA Platform and Improvements in Lead Program ORN-101 at PEGS and ASGCT

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Orna Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new investigational class of engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapies, presented data on the progress of lead program ORN-101, a development-stage in situ CAR program, at the Protein Engineering Summit (PEGS) and at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.

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  • The presentations include a session and talk at PEGS, as well as a poster presentation at ASGCT, which may be viewed on the Orna website here .
  • "Using the Orna FoRCE platform, we've been able to develop ORN-101, a potent anti-cancer circular RNA therapy delivered via LNP," said Robert Mabry, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Orna.
  • These desirable features further allow oRNA therapeutics to be developed for applications beyond infectious disease, including oncology and genetic disorders.
  • ORN-101 features high expression of the CAR driven by an optimized IRES element, selected by Orna's FoRCE platform to yield durable protein expression.

PhenomeX Launches Beacon Select™ Optofluidic System with Opto® B Discovery Workflows

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Monday, May 15, 2023

EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PhenomeX Inc. (Nasdaq: CELL), the functional cell biology company, today announced the launch of Beacon Select™ optofluidic system with Opto® B Discovery workflows for antibody discovery.

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  • Affordable two-chip Beacon Select system to broaden customer access to innovative high throughput, function-first antibody discovery capabilities
    EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PhenomeX Inc. (Nasdaq: CELL), the functional cell biology company, today announced the launch of Beacon Select™ optofluidic system with Opto® B Discovery workflows for antibody discovery .
  • Combined with the value-matched Beacon Select system, more customers may access these propriety antibody discovery applications, but with the optimum level of features that meet their research and budgetary needs.
  • Opto B Discovery workflows on the Beacon Select system enable scientists to accelerate antibody screening and hit generation to find lead candidate antibodies and are ideally suited for small- to mid-sized biopharma and CDMOs/CROs.
  • To further increase customer accessibility and affordability, PhenomeX will offer the Beacon Select system for antibody discovery with different purchase options including capital placement, lease, or reagent rental.

SCIEX Announces the BioPhase 8800 Driver for Empower Software

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Monday, May 15, 2023

At PEGS 2023 , SCIEX , a global leader in life science analytical technologies, launches the BioPhase 8800 driver for Empower software, which integrates the BioPhase 8800 system with the Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) from Waters Technologies Corporation.

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  • At PEGS 2023 , SCIEX , a global leader in life science analytical technologies, launches the BioPhase 8800 driver for Empower software, which integrates the BioPhase 8800 system with the Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) from Waters Technologies Corporation.
  • Scientists can now directly control the multi-capillary BioPhase 8800 system through the Empower CDS while maintaining the experimental flexibility of SCIEX capillary electrophoresis (CE) systems.
  • This brings BioPhase 8800 system integration into standard workflows, helping to minimize method development, improve characterization and, ultimately, shorten drug development timelines.
  • The BioPhase 8800 driver for Empower software enables analytical scientists, both in regulated and non-regulated biopharma labs, to perform these tasks, all from a single software solution.

Insilico Medicine Founder and CEO to Give Keynote on Disease Modeling with AI at PEGS Boston

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Friday, May 12, 2023

Abu Dhabi, May 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insilico Medicine, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, announced that Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, founder and CEO of the Company, will attend the PEGS Boston Summit from May 15-19.

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  • Abu Dhabi, May 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insilico Medicine, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, announced that Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, founder and CEO of the Company, will attend the PEGS Boston Summit from May 15-19.
  • A team of expert scientists are developing Pharma.AI at the Insilico Medicine Generative Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing Research and Development Center in Abu Dhabi, the region’s largest AI-powered biotechnology research center.
  • “We are at an exciting moment in the history of generative AI in drug discovery,” says Zhavoronkov.
  • In total, Insilico has 31 programs across 29 targets, including in fibrosis, oncology, immunology, and central nervous system disorders.

PhenomeX To Participate in 19th Annual PEGS Boston Conference & Expo

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Thursday, May 11, 2023

EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PhenomeX (Nasdaq: CELL), the functional cell biology company, today announced that it will participate in the 19th annual Protein Engineering & Cell Therapy Summit (PEGS) Conference and Expo being held from May 15-19 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass.

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  • EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PhenomeX (Nasdaq: CELL), the functional cell biology company, today announced that it will participate in the 19th annual Protein Engineering & Cell Therapy Summit (PEGS) Conference and Expo being held from May 15-19 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass.
  • During the time-course observation, >1,000 single T cells are monitored for their ability to kill APCs in co-culture, surface marker expression, and cytokine secretion.
  • Abstract: Microfluidic chips can be used to sort and clone CHO cells, perform miniaturized assays, and recover top performers.
  • In this presentation, data will be shared demonstrating how miniaturized quality assays enable selection of top performing clones within five days of cloning.

Orna Therapeutics to Present Progress of Lead Program ORN-101 at PEGS and ASGCT

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Thursday, May 4, 2023

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Orna Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new investigational class of engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapies, today announced two presentations at the Protein Engineering Summit (PEGS) taking place May 15-19 in Boston as well as a poster presentation at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles May 16-20. Orna is presenting preclinical results for ORN-101, an in situ CAR program in development, as well as further details about its platform.

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  • Orna is presenting preclinical results for ORN-101, an in situ CAR program in development, as well as further details about its platform.
  • "We are paving the way for advancements in RNA therapeutics that reach beyond infectious disease to treat cancer and genetic disorders," Robert Mabry, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Orna.
  • "Our ORN-101 program demonstrates the benefits of our platform's ability to create a paradigm-changing treatment with the characteristics we believe matter most to patients, including a rapid timeline from diagnosis to treatment, strong expression and tumor-killing potency at low dose, and a regimen without the harsh chemotherapeutic lymphodepletion protocols typically required for standard engineered cell therapies."
  • Details for the presentations are as follows:

Iris&Romeo Announces Its First-Ever Retail Partnership With Credo Beauty

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Iris&Romeo, the female-founded clean beauty brand known for creating the original skincare/makeup hybrids to help you consume less and get ready faster, announced today its first-ever retail launch with the leading clean beauty retailer, Credo Beauty. Starting today, Iris&Romeo will be debuting its full range of products in 11 stores nationwide in key locations including New York City, Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston and will also be available for purchase at credobeauty.com.

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  • "When I launched the company it was my dream to have Credo Beauty as our first retail partner," said Michele Gough Baril, Founder of Iris&Romeo.
  • "Annie Jackson, Co-Founder and COO of Credo Beauty has had a clear vision of bringing together some of the most innovative, ethical, new brands in the space.
  • "Multi-use products are one of the fastest growing categories at Credo Beauty," said Meg Lim, Credo Beauty Color Merchant.
  • We look forward to beginning our retail entry with our exclusive partnership with a best-in-class retailer like Credo Beauty."

ImmunOs Therapeutics´ Lead Program Shows Strong Anti-Tumor Activity In Vivo and In Vitro

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

November 15, 2022 ImmunOs Therapeutics AG , a biopharmaceutical company leveraging its HLA-based technology platform to develop first-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced promising data for the Companys lead program IOS-1002.

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  • November 15, 2022 ImmunOs Therapeutics AG , a biopharmaceutical company leveraging its HLA-based technology platform to develop first-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced promising data for the Companys lead program IOS-1002.
  • The presented data supports IOS-1002 as a first-in-class multi-functional agent which will enter a Phase 1 trial later this year.
  • "We are excited that our lead program IOS-1002 has generated such promising non-clinical data both as a monotherapy and in combination with anti-PD-1," added Sean R. Smith, Chief Executive Officer of ImmunOs Therapeutics.
  • ImmunOs lead program is a multi-functional fusion protein that blocks specific LILRB (leukocyte immunoglobulin-like) and KIR (killer cell immunoglobulin-like) receptors and activates anti-tumor responses.

Twist Bioscience Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2022 Financial Results

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Friday, November 18, 2022

Cost of Revenues: Cost of revenues for fiscal 2022 was $119.3 million compared to $80.6 million for fiscal 2021.

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  • Cost of Revenues: Cost of revenues for fiscal 2022 was $119.3 million compared to $80.6 million for fiscal 2021.
  • Research and Development Expenses: Research and development expenses for fiscal 2022 were $120.3 million compared to $69.1 million for fiscal 2021.
  • Orders: Total orders received for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 were $62.1 million compared to $45.2 million for the same period of fiscal 2021.
  • Revenue: Total revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 were $57.3 million compared to $38.0 million for the same period of fiscal 2021.