Thermo Fisher & Pfizer to expand localised access to NGS-based testing for cancer

American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation Pfizer and Thermo Fisher Scientific have entered int...

May 10, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea-US form high-tech alliance to set global standards for medical products

President Yoon Suk Yeol, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea (Minister Oh Yu-Kyoun...

May 8, 2023 | Monday | News
US-Singapore partnership to identify and develop novel digital biomarkers

US-based startup ObvioHealth has announced a partnership with A*STAR's Singapore Institute for Clinical Scienc...

May 4, 2023 | Thursday | News
Cytiva and Pall Life Sciences complete integration to create global biotech leader

US-based firm Cytiva and the life sciences business of Pall Corporation have completed their integration and are now uni...

May 2, 2023 | Tuesday | News
US FDA approves Pfizer’s 20-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine for children

American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc. has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PREVN...

April 28, 2023 | Friday | News
Nippon Express opens pharma logistics centre in US

MD Logistics, LLC, a group company of Japan-based Nippon Express Holdings, has opened Garner 2000 Pharmaceutical Lo...

April 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Cytiva brings X-platform bioreactors to simplify single-use upstream bioprocessing operation

American firm Cytiva has announced the launch of X-platform bioreactors to simplify single-use upstream bioprocessing op...

April 19, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Eli Lilly fosters diverse talent pipeline for high-tech manufacturing jobs in US

American pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Company is investing an additional $1.6 billion and add another 200...

April 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Merck acquires Prometheus Biosciences for $10.8 B to strengthen immunology pipeline

American pharmaceutical firm Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and US-based startup Prometheus B...

April 17, 2023 | Monday | News
Agilent offers AI-powered assay development solutions for biopharma research

US-based Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with PathAI, a leading provider of artific...

April 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Sanofi opens state-of-the-art facility in US for pandemic flu vaccines production

Sanofi and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic ...

April 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
US CDMOs seek to address capacity challenges and supply chain contingencies

Ahead of a CPHI North America panel discussion – Redesigning the Supply Chain – The Road to I...

April 5, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Eppendorf adds digital documentation to connected electronic pipette system

With this innovative system, scientists can easily adjust connected pipette modes, settings, and volumes via a large tou...

March 31, 2023 | Friday | News
Australian biotech behemoth CSL unveils new vaccine R&D facility in US

Australian biotech firm CSL recently celebrated the official opening of the company's new state-of-the-art research and ...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher opens cell therapy facility at University of California, San Francisco

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in the US, will accelerate advance...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Revolutionising Drug Development with focus on label-free technologies amid US FDA legislation

The new FDA Modernization Act 2.0 has recently been signed by US president Biden, resulting in the revocation of the lon...

March 27, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
Bayer allocates resources to grow oncology and cardiology biz in US

During this year’s Pharma Media Day 2023 on March 24th, German pharmaceutical firm Bayer showcased how its investm...

March 25, 2023 | Saturday | News
Waters introduces next-generation Alliance iS HPLC system

US-headquartered Waters Corporation has introduced Alliance iS , the next-generation intelligent HPLC system d...

March 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Agilent announces digital pathology scanner distribution agreement with Hamamatsu

Agilent Technologies Inc. has partnered with Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., a Japan-based provider of whole slide i...

March 13, 2023 | Monday | News
Singapore witnesses Wharton Global Forum 2023 addressing challenges and opportunities navigating a volatile global economy

On March 10th, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania kicked off the 55th Wharton Global Forum i...

March 10, 2023 | Friday | News
IonOpticks unveils new technology to shake-up US proteomics sector

IonOpticks, an Australia-based producer of high-performance chromatography solutions for the global research community, ...

March 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Eppendorf announces release of new-gen epMotion automated liquid handler

Eppendorf has announce the release of the new generation of the epMotion automated liquid handler at the SLAS conference...

February 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Agilent breaks ground on $725 M expansion of therapeutic nucleic acids manufacturing in US

Leaders from Agilent Technologies Inc. joined Colorado Governor Jared Polis and local government officials to break grou...

February 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Bio-Techne and CST partner to validate simple western antibodies

US-headquartered firms Bio-Techne Corporation and Cell Signaling Technology (CST) have announced the addition ...

February 16, 2023 | Thursday | News
Waters launches updates to sample vials line focused on cleanliness & accuracy

American analytical laboratory instrument and software company Waters Corp has announced a new test protocol for it...

February 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Waters Corp launches SaaS for remote monitoring of QA/QC labs

US-based Waters Corporation has announced that launc of waters_connect System Monitoring, a new Software-as-a-Service (S...

January 26, 2023 | Thursday | News
Agilent invests $725 M to expand production of nucleic acid-based therapeutics

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that it is investing approximately $725 million to double manufacturing ca...

January 13, 2023 | Friday | News
SCHOTT announces multi-million-dollar investment to set up new facility in US

SCHOTT has opened a new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, US to expand the development and manufacturing of diagnostics and ...

January 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Avantor and Catalent enter into multi-year supply and services agreement

US-based Avantor, Inc. has entered into a multi-year supply and services agreement with Catalent, Inc. where Avantor wil...

January 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Agilent acquires Avida Biomed to expand into high growth diagnostic markets

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the acquisition of US-based startup Avida Biomed, an early-stage life sciences c...

January 5, 2023 | Thursday | News
US-based startup Alercell to launch DNA sequencing-based leukaemia diagnostic test

Alercell is all set to launch LENA Q51(R) in January 2023. A leukaemia diagnostic test based on sequencing DNA will dete...

December 30, 2022 | Friday | News
US explores application of 3D bioprinting to create eye tissue

Scientists are now using patient stem cells and 3D bioprinting to produce eye tissue that will advance understanding of ...

December 26, 2022 | Monday | News
US designs pocket-sized breath analyser to detect COVID-19, influenza within 60 secs

US-based startup Opteev Technologies, Inc. has developed an affordable breath analyser, ViraWarn, that detects COVI...

November 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Fujifilm invests $188 M in new cell culture media manufacturing facility in US

Japan-based Fujifilm Corporation has announced a $188 million investment to establish a cell culture media manufacturing...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Research on neural dynamics wins 2022 Eppendorf & Science Prize

The American scientist Ann Kennedy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA has won the 2022...

November 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher unveils new clinical research laboratory in Virginia, US

Thermo Fisher Scientific has expanded its clinical research operations with the opening of a state-of-the art bioanalyti...

October 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher gets US FDA approval for NGS-based CDx for cancer

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Oncomine Dx Target Te...

September 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Waters gets LEED certification for precision chemical manufacturing facility in US

Waters Corporation has announced that its newly built Precision Chemical Manufacturing Facility in Taunton, Mass. h...

September 27, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher invests $160 M to expand bioproduction capacity in Greater Boston

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has opened a new biomanufacturing facility in Chelms...

September 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Peli BioThermal launches Crēdo Go cold chain shipping solution

US-based Peli BioThermal has announced its newest reusable, flexible temperature controlled shipping solution. Crē...

September 14, 2022 | Wednesday | News
WuXi Biologics opens first North American biomanufacturing facility in New Jersey

China's WuXi Biologics, a global leading Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO), has anno...

September 1, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan's Eisai inaugurates new headquarters in US

Eisai Inc., the US pharmaceutical subsidiary of Japanese firm Eisai Co, has announced the grand opening of its new headq...

August 19, 2022 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific expands viral vector manufacturing capabilities in US

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has expanded its cell and gene therapy capabilities with ...

August 24, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher's largest single-use technology manufacturing site opens in US

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has opened its largest single-use technology manufacturing site in Greater Nashville, US. ...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
USFDA grants EUA to Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents

Novavax has announced that its COVID-19 caccine, Adjuvanted (NVX-CoV2373) has received expanded emergency use autho...

August 22, 2022 | Monday | News
BD, Accelerate Diagnostics announce global commercial collaboration

US-based BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, and Accelerate Diagnostics,&nb...

August 16, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Frontier Biotechnologies proposes treatments for acute and prolonged COVID

China-headquartered global biopharmaceutical company Frontier Biotechnologies announced positive results from the Phase ...

August 15, 2022 | Monday | News
Portfolio Management and Pipeline Optimization for Generics (15th Edition) conference to unravel global generic pharma market opportunities

Pharmaceutical companies need to ensure they have a competitive edge in the market while adapting to evolving industry b...

August 8, 2022 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher's $76 M investment into expanding cell culture media production

To meet increasing global demand for cell culture media used in the manufacturing of new vaccines and biologics, Thermo ...

August 4, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia's Telix Pharma appoints new CEO for US operations

Australian firm Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced that Kevin Richardson, a senior global executive with a career focus...

July 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Merck unveils €59 M CDMO facility for critical cancer therapies

Merck has announced that its Life Science business sector has doubled its high-potent active pharmaceutical ingredients ...

June 24, 2022 | Friday | News
CBET becomes first US-based training partner for Univercells Technologies

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) has announced that its Stack Family Center for Biopharmaceut...

June 14, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Clinical trials indicate successful cancer remission through immunotherapy

Cancer tumors disappeared who have received an experimental immunotherapy drug called dostarlimab (brand name ...

June 9, 2022 | Thursday | News
Waters unveils high resolution mass spec products to accelerate drug development

Waters Corporation has unveiled new instruments, software and product enhancements to drive drug discovery and developme...

June 7, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Agilent collaborates with APC on real-time process monitoring

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced a collaboration agreement with APC Ltd., in which the companies ...

May 27, 2022 | Friday | News
OriCiro Genomics opens new office in North America

Japan-based OriCiro Genomics K.K., a pioneer in cell-free synthesis and amplification of genome-scale large DNA for adva...

May 19, 2022 | Thursday | News
APAC biotech giant Novotech acquires US CRO NCGS expanding its global expertise

Novotech, the leading Asia-Pacific biotech specialist CRO, has acquired US CRO NCGS as part of its expansion program. Th...

May 5, 2022 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher invests $44M in bioprocessing manufacturing site in Utah, US

Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened its new single-use technology manufacturing site in Ogden, Utah in the US. The state...

April 21, 2022 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher enhances clinical research solutions in collaboration with Matrix Clinical Trials

The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and Matrix Clinical Trials, a Matrix Medical Ne...

April 20, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Israel's SMART Medical Systems' G-EYE® Colonoscope enters the US market with FDA clearance

Israel's SMART Medical Systems Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of innovative endoscopy products, received&n...

April 20, 2022 | Wednesday | News
US authorises first COVID-19 diagnostic test using breath samples

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first COVID-19 diagnosti...

April 15, 2022 | Friday | News
Jawline Injections on the Increase in Canada

When Jawline Injections are Recommended Jawline muscle injections are also known as 'TMJ' (temporomandibular joint) Bot...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Moderna, Thermo Fisher announce long-term strategic collaboration for vaccine, therapies

Moderna, Inc. and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. have announced a 15-year strategic collaboration agreement to enable ded...

February 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher launches rapid test for detection of airborne SARS-CoV-2 pathogens

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the launch of a new rapid indoor air test to help fight COVID-19. The T...

February 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
NFID urges action to reduce burden of respiratory syncytial virus

The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) has issued a Call to Action urging stronger public health focus a...

January 28, 2022 | Friday | News
US FDA picks Waters Corp software to support medical products testing labs

Waters Corporation has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Regulatory Affair...

January 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer receives EUA of booster shot for 12-15 age group

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the Emergency U...

January 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Roche COVID-19 at-home test receives emergency use approval from US FDA

Roche has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its...

January 3, 2022 | Monday | News
Siemens Healthineers receives FDA EUA for CLINITEST rapid COVID-19 antigen self-test

Siemens Healthineers has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorizat...

January 1, 2022 | Saturday | News
Pfizer inks deal worth $5.29 B with US government for COVID-19 pill

Pfizer Inc. has announced an agreement with the US government to supply 10 million treatment courses of its investi...

November 19, 2021 | Friday | News
J&J to separate consumer health business

American firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced its intent to separate the company’s Consumer Health b...

November 12, 2021 | Friday | News
Catalent Further Expands Clinical Supply Network with New Facility in San Diego

The 24,000-square-foot facility located within a mile of the company’s early-phase oral drug product center of exc...

October 29, 2021 | Friday | News
Waters, University of Delaware announce bioprocessing innovation partnership

Waters Corporation and the University of Delaware, US have announced a five-year research partnership to develop new ana...

October 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher brings wastewater isolation kit for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance

Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, public health laboratories and researchers have been developing surveillance methods ...

October 6, 2021 | Wednesday | News
"Stem cell-based therapeutics poised to become mainstream option”

To make the trial investments more meaningful and to avoid ambivalence in animal models, medical science is adopting nov...

October 1, 2021 | Friday | Opinion
Sartorius expands business operations in North America

Sartorius, a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry, is expanding its...

September 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Vetter chalks long-term sustainability strategy to become carbon neutral

Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), Vetter is ensuring that all its sites are climate-neutral an...

September 24, 2021 | Friday | News
UK-based Futura Medical with OCT Clinical to run FM71 study in Eastern Europe, US

Futura Medical, a pharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of innovative products based on its proprietary, transde...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher enables scalable gene therapy workflows

Addressing the need to make adeno-associated virus (AAV) production more efficient and scalable, Thermo Fisher Scientifi...

September 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Convalescent plasma doesn’t help seriously ill COVID-19 patients: Canadian study

A major study has found that convalescent plasma does not reduce the risk of intubation or death for COVID-19 patients. ...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
"We have identified several peptides that have anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic properties"

How can mitochondria-based therapeutics have an impact on chronic and age-related diseases?   Traditionally, peop...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | Opinion
Resisting & Adapting to Infectious Diseases to Prevent Future Pandemics

For over a year the world has been battling the newly emerged infectious disease: the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the C...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | Opinion
Thermo Fisher to expand pipette tip manufacturing in US

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced a $192.5 million contract award from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to e...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
BD launches high-throughput molecular diagnostic platform for US labs

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has launched a new, fully automated high-throughput diagnostic system using robotics ...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
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

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