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Offspring Biosciences is pleased to announce our expanded technical capacity with the purchase and installment of a Roche/Ventana Discovery Ultra tissue staining platform which significantly enhances our ability to deliver highly reliable, informative and 7-Plex Multiplex IHC & ISH Services | Preclinical CRO | Offspring Bioefficient support to our customers The Discovery Ultra platform allows for parallel and fully individualized processing of up to 30 slide-mounted tissue

In a recently published study in Plos One, a research team led by Dr Sara Hansson at AstraZeneca presented data which demonstrate that secretagogin, an intracellular calcium-binding intracellular protein highly enriched in pancreatic islets, may serve as biomarker in the blood for beta cell dysfunction in individuals with type 2 diabetes Offspring supported this project by performing multiplexed immunofluorescence-based detection of secretagogin selectively within the insulin

In a recently published study by a research team from MedImmune led by Dr. Arun Sharma, novel data was presented which shows that in vivo treatment with a combination of the neurotrophic factor neuturin (NRTN) and liraglutide in hyperglycemic ZDF rats synergistically improved glycemic control and enhanced metabolic parameters as compared to liraglutide alone, highlighting the potential of novel combinatorial approaches to prevent or reverse diabetes progression Offspring are