J&J gives data to support boosting its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced data supporting the use of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster shot for...

August 25, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu and NEC to enhance interoperability testing between 5G base station equipment in U.S. and U.K.

Fujitsu Limited and NEC Corporation have begun developing technologies for interoperability testing between 5G base stat...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
BioAgilytix to purchase Australia-based 360biolabs®

BioAgilytix Labs, LLC, a leading global contract research laboratory focused on supporting its pharmaceutical and biotec...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
GE Healthcare, Amazon to deliver AI and cloud-based imaging solutions

GE Healthcare announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver artificial intelligence (AI)...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
US develops CRISPR-based hand held COVID-19 test for mass screening

An international consortium of scientists from the US has developed a CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test th...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
Moderna gets fast-track status for mRNA vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus

US-based Moderna, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
WuXi STA acquires Bristol Myers Squibb's manufacturing facility in Switzerland

WuXi STA – a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec – has completed the acquisition of a drug product manufacturing facil...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Droplet Digital PCR to benefit CAR-T cell developers

CAR-T cells or Chimeric antigen receptor T cells entered clinics in 2017, but since then they have already changed leuke...

August 1, 2021 | Sunday | Opinion
PerkinElmer acquires antibody and reagent leader BioLegend for $5.25 B

PerkinElmer, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire BioLegend, a leading, global provider of life ...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Hummingbird Bioscience and MD Anderson collaborate to advance innovative immunotherapies

Hummingbird Bioscience, a US and Singapore-based innovative clinical-stage biotech company, and The University of T...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
DrAnsay.com offers online doctor's certificates for antigen self-tests

DrAnsay.com, the market leader for online doctor attests, is offering online test certificates for self-applied rapid an...

July 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
Francisco Partners to acquire STARLIMS from Abbott

Francisco Partners, a US-based global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, has ann...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher, UC Davis launch CoE in clinical metabolomics

Thermo Fisher Scientific, and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) West Coast Metabolomics Center, have announ...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
2D Droplet Digital PCR quantifies AAV Viral Titer and predicts potency

Gene therapy has the potential to bring relief to millions of individuals with diseases ranging from β-thalassemia ...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
Patient access to gene therapies for cancer set to increase in next decade: GlobalData

Gene therapies will provide a valid treatment option for patients that have developed resistance to chemotherapies acros...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
US to donate 500 M Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses to LMIC countries

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced plans to provide the U.S. government at a not-for-profit price 500 million do...

June 10, 2021 | Thursday | News
U.S. FDA approves Pfizer’s Pneumococcal 20-valent Conjugate Vaccine

Pfizer Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVNAR 20™ (Pneumococcal...

June 9, 2021 | Wednesday | News
US develops odour test to sniff out hard-to-detect cancers

An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancre...

June 7, 2021 | Monday | News