Sanofi to acquire Synthorx for $2.5 B

World |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Dec, 2019

Sanofi and Synthorx, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on prolonging and improving the lives of people suffering from cancer and autoimmune disorders, entered into a definitive...Read more

GE Healthcare to personalise tissue regeneration

World |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Dec, 2019

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Advanced Solutions Life Sciences (ASLS) will enter into a strategic R&D and distribution partnership that sets out to personalize tissue regeneration. Th...Read more

Amazon Web Services collaborates with Novartis

World |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Dec, 2019

Amazon Web Services has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with Novartis to reimagine this pharmaceutical company’s core pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain, and de...Read more

Novoheart, AstraZeneca to develop Human Heart-in-a-Jar model

World |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Nov, 2019

Canada headquartered Novoheart, a global stem cell biotechnology company, is pleased to announce a collaboration with global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, in an effort to develop t...Read more

Ferring and Blackstone invest $570M for bladder cancer therapy

World |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Nov, 2019

Swiss firm Ferring Pharmaceuticals and US based Blackstone Life Sciences have announced the joint investment of over $570 million in nadofaragene firadenovec (rAd-IFN/Syn3), an investigatio...Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific invests $6 M to expand Viral Vector Manufacturing Facility

World |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Nov, 2019

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, on 22nd Nov 2019, unveiled the $6 million expansion of its gene therapy and viral vector services site in Alachua, Florid...Read more

Novo Nordisk explores liver cell targets with Dicerna

World |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Nov, 2019

US based Dicerna™ Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Denmark headquartered Novo Nordisk A/S have announced an agreement to discover and develop novel therapies for the treatment of l...Read more

FDB invests $55M to expand gene therapy process

World |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Nov, 2019

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB), a leading global biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with locations in Teesside, UK, RTP, North Carolina, ...Read more

International Diabetes Federation reports 463 Million Diabetics Worldwide

World |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Nov, 2019

On World Diabetes Day, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is releasing new figures that highlight the alarming growth in the prevalence of diabetes around the world. 38 million mor...Read more

Philips launches AI based clinical product for aiding cognitive assessment

World |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2019

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology has announced the U.S. debut of its new cognitive assessment platform IntelliSpace Cognition. Leveraging the power of artificial intellig...Read more

Mylan and Pfizer announce Viatris as new company name

World |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2019

Mylan N.V. and Pfizer Inc. have  announced that the name of the new company to be formed by the planned combination of Mylan and Upjohn, a division of Pfizer, will be Viatris (pro...Read more

Merck licenses CRISPR gene-editing technology to Evotec

World |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Nov, 2019

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that it has signed a license agreement providing Evotec SE access to Merck's foundational CRISPR intellectual proper...Read more

Vygon Group joins forces with EFCNI

World |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Nov, 2019

France based Vygon Group, a specialist single-use medical devices group, is organizing a number of awareness events in hospitals worldwide for World Prematurity Day on November 17. Vygon is...Read more

Abbott discovers new strain of HIV

World |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Nov, 2019

Abbott has announced that a team of its scientists identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), called HIV-1 Group M, subtype L. The findings, published in the&n...Read more

PromoCell now offers in vitro disease models

World |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Nov, 2019

PromoCell, a Germany based premier manufacturer of human primary cells and cell culture products, now offers cell disease models covering a wide range of diseases including diabetes type 1 ...Read more

Merck introduces fast-dissolving material for immediate release coating

World |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Nov, 2019

Merck has launched its Parteck® COAT excipient, a new functional material designed for immediate release film coating applications. Parteck® COAT is a particle engine...Read more

Merck launches nanoparticle-reduced sucrose for biopharma formulations

World |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Nov, 2019

Merck has developed a new filtration-based manufacturing process resulting in a new, highly purified sucrose grade with reduced levels of nanoparticle impurities (NPI). The new product, Suc...Read more

Thermo Fisher to invest $24M for bioproduction expansion

World |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Nov, 2019

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has announced that it is investing nearly $24 million in its Inchinnan, Scotland, site to expand global bioprod...Read more