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Qkine has concluded a sales distribution agreement with Japanese company, MBL Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd. MBL have extensive knowledge and presence within the Japanese regenerative medicine and iPSC sector, an important market for Qkine's high purity, animal-free optimised growth factor and cytokine proteins. The two companies share a focus on product quality and the emerging areas of organoid and organ-on-chip technologies for basic research, personalised medicine and drug discovery. This distributor agreement between Qkine and MBL will facilitate access to Qkine's entire range of premium quality, animal-free and novel optimised growth factor proteins across Japan.

October update celebrating the launch of hyperstable FGF2-G3 for media optimisation, new media recipe quick reference resources for organoid researchers and the launch of animal-free OSM, which completes the hepatocyte differentiation growth factor set. Not forgetting us becoming an ISO9001: 2015 certified manufacturer!

Qkine certified ISO9001: 2015 for its quality management system encompassing R&D, manufacturing, and operations in Cambridge, UK. Qkine supplies growth factors and cytokines to the fast-moving stem cell, organoid and emerging cultured meat sectors. Exceptional product quality and scientific support are crucial to customer's business processes and experimental outcomes.

Qkine and Enantis have concluded a global licensing deal for Enantis’s patented FGF2-STAB® technology. FGF2-STAB® is a hyperstable form of FGF-2 (bFGF), a core reagent for stem cell culture. FGF2-STAB (FGF2-G3) does not degrade in culture media for enhanced weekend-free stem cell culture media and advanced chemically defined systems, such as those needed in the cultured meat industry.

June update with featured publication from Austin Smith lab, Kinoshita et al - capture of mouse and human stem cells with features of formative pluripotency; introduction to our "class of 2021" new products we've made this year; explaining pioneering proteins that bring innovative growth factors to stem cell researchers and free reconstitution solution to make lab life easy

We are proud to launch our Pioneering Protein range! A range of modified proteins have been carefully developed by world […]

At Qkine we are so proud of all the wonderful women we work with! This #InternationalWomensDay we want to celebrate our amazing network and empower #WomenInSTEM to learn from and help each other #empoweringwomen #womenpower

The #21toWatch campaign showcases 7 people, 7 companies and 7 inventions at the forefront of innovation in Cambridge and the East of England. The results were announced on the 4th March and we are delighted that our CEO, Catherine Elton, was named one of the 7 “people” to watch.

Qkine, Manchester BIOGEL and Cellesce have been awarded Innovate UK Sustainable Innovation Funding to develop fully synthetic, chemically-defined three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds to enable manufacture scale up and improve reproducibility of patient-derived organoids.

Qkine is delighted to have been shortlisted in the prestigious Cambridge Independent 2020 Science and Technology Awards. Sponsored by Kao Data, the […]

Cambridge, UK 21 July 2020: Qkine – a specialist developer and manufacturer of proteins for stem cell, organoid and regenerative medicine applications […]

Cambridge, UK 08 June 2020: Qkine – a specialist developer and manufacturer of proteins for stem cell, organoid and regenerative medicine applications […]