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