RENSSELAER, N.Y., Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in providing genetically engineered mouse model and service solutions, announces the launch of several new inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) animal models. As a fully-licensed provider of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, Taconic scientists knocked out the mouse Il10 gene to generate a spontaneous colitis [...]
RENSSELAER, N.Y., Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services, announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) with the initial appointments of J. Victor Garcia, PhD, Andrew Goodman, PhD, and David Hill, PhD. The SAB will collaborate with Taconic’s management in providing scientific [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered rodent models and associated services, is funding the development of a custom mouse model to study Kabuki syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. Taconic is donating model generation services as a third-time sponsor of the Rare Disease Science Challenge, BeHEARD. Hosted [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services, announced it has signed a collaborative agreement with Cergentis B.V. (“Cergentis”) to leverage the company’s Targeted Locus Amplification (TLA) technology to provide transgene mapping services to its customers. While transgenic mice generated via random pro-nuclear [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services, announced it has signed a collaborative agreement with Pharmatest Services, Ltd. (“Pharmatest”) to leverage the company’s oncology and skeletal disease preclinical efficacy services using Taconic’s humanized mouse models. Bone metastasis develops when cancer spreads from [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — When the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launches today bound for the International Space Station, they will be joined by 40 special mice, bred specifically for this mission by Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services. The project is a collaboration between the University [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services, announced it has signed a license agreement with ERS Genomics (“ERS”) to utilize the company’s CRISPR-Cas9 technology to generate unique murine models. Under the agreement, Taconic receives a worldwide non-exclusive license to the CRISPR-Cas9 patents [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services and the only commercial provider of germ-free mice, announced it has added Germ Free BALB/c mice to its microbiome portfolio. The new product expands Taconic’s existing collection of germ-free animal models, which includes C57BL/6 (Black 6) and [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services, announced it will expand the offering of a key Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) mouse model, APPSWE – Model 1349, to include aged animals. Taconic will now offer off-the-shelf Model 1349 animals aged up to 42 weeks, [...]
HUDSON, N.Y., Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services and the only commercial provider of germ-free mice, announced that effective April 26, 2017 they will expand their microbiome product and services platform to include custom Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) services. To support these new [...]