Olympus unveils global HQ in US for therapeutic solutions division & medical biz

Japan headquartered Olympus Corporation has announced the opening of a new facility in Westborough, MA, to serve as the ...

April 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
Pelican BioThermal adds module in School of Cool™ online learning platform

Pelican BioThermal, the global name in temperature-controlled solutions, announces a new module available on its School ...

April 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
Varonis releases 2021 report on Healthcare Data Risk

Varonis, a global pioneer in data security based in the US, has just released its 2021 Healthcare Data Risk Report,...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
BD receives EUA for rapid Ag test to screen asymptomatic individuals

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced that U.S. Food and D...

April 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Merck’s CRISPRi whole-genome libraries can unravel Gene pathways

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has launched its CRISPR inhibition (CRISPRi) whole-genome libraries and...

April 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma expands manufacturing agreement with AstraZeneca

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing services w...

March 31, 2021 | Wednesday | News
HOPE Consortium kick starts World Immunisation & Logistics Summit in Dubai

The HOPE Consortium’s World Immunisation & Logistics Summit opened on March 30, 2021 by H.H. Sheikh Abdul...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer's Horizon Discovery extends gene modulation portfolio

Horizon Discovery, a PerkinElmer, Inc. company, on March 29, 2021 announced that its gene editing and mod...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
J&J to make available up to 400 M COVID-19 vaccine doses to African Union

Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, has enter...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher collaborates with Artificial to enhance COVID-19 diagnostic testing solution

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Artificial, developers of flexible automation softwar...

March 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Global Medical Imaging Informatics Market accelerated by Cloud and AI

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligenc...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | Analysis
AZD1222 US Phase III primary analysis confirms safety and efficacy

Positive high-level results from the primary analysis of the Phase III trial of AZD1222 in the US have confirmed vaccine...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Gamma Biosciences, a global advanced therapy market makes key management hires

Gamma Biosciences, a global life sciences company serving the advanced therapy market, on March 24, 2021, announced...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Eco-friendly medical splints make their debut in sports

Injuries of varying degrees happen all the time in sports. Many of them can be treated on-site simply with supports of d...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Gavi board approves COVAX buffer for high-risk groups in humanitarian settings

The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance on March 23, 2021, has approved the COVAX Buffer to ensure access to C...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Pelican BioThermal broadens portfolio of dry ice shippers

Pelican BioThermal, the global name in temperature-controlled packaging, announces expanded dry ice shipper options to s...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher, Artificial collaborate to enhance COVID-19 testing platform

Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Artificial, developers of flexible automation software, have announced a strategic technol...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Cipla Therapeutics, SIGA Technologies lay focus on novel antibacterial drugs against biothreats

Cipla Therapeutics, an affiliate of Indian firm Cipla Limited, and American pharmaceutical company SIGA Technologies, In...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer expands computing capabilities for biological drug discovery

PerkinElmer, Inc., has announced that its Signals ™ computing platform for documentation, workflow ...

March 22, 2021 | Monday | News
Waters BioAccord system boosts biosimilar drug development and commercialization

Waters Corporation introduced a new peptide multi-attribute method (MAM) workflow for the Waters™ BioAccord&t...

March 21, 2021 | Sunday | News
Epredia to distribute Paige Digital Pathology Software globally

Epredia, a global leader in precision cancer diagnostics, and Paige, a global leader in AI-based diagnostic software in ...

March 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher to invest $600 M for expanding bioprocessing production capabilities

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has announced more than $600 million in capital investments to expand its bioproc...

March 12, 2021 | Friday | News
PerkinElmer launches comprehensive solutions for detecting SARS-CoV-2 mutations

PerkinElmer, Inc has announced the launch of two Research Use Only (RUO) solutions, PKamp™ VariantDetect&trad...

March 15, 2021 | Monday | News
PerkinElmer acquires Oxford Immunotec to expand its TB test portfolio

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that the Company has c...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
BWXT and GMS to launch Nuclear Medicine in Asia-Pacific Region

BWXT Medical Ltd. and Global Medical Solutions, Ltd. (GMS) have entered into a joint venture (JV) to manufacture and dis...

March 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
FDA authorizes adaptive Biotechnologies T-Detect COVID test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on March 5th 2021 issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the T-Detect COV...

March 8, 2021 | Monday | News
Eisai to support construction of coronavirus screening framework in Kenya

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has decided to assent to and support a project led by CA Medlynks Kenya,...

March 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
Saint-Gobain life sciences introduce highly efficient cell culture bags for T Cell expansion

Gaithersburg-based Saint-Gobain Life Sciences in the US is an industry leader in material science-based solutions f...

February 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Waters collaborates with TetraScience to provide unparalleled insights into chromatography data

Waters Corporation has entered a reseller agreement with TetraScience, a cloud technology innovator powering transf...

February 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
PerkinElmer launches highly sensitive PoC antigen test for mass screening

PerkinElmer, Inc, has launched the PerkinElmer® COVID-19 Antigen Test for the qualitative detect...

February 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Gavi signs memorandum of understanding with Novavax on behalf of COVAX Facility

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance announced today that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Novavax that, com...

February 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Pelican biothermal launches new webinar series

Pelican BioThermal, the global name in temperature-controlled packaging, partners with industry experts to offer Innovat...

February 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Agilent unveils immunoassay kit to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of the Agilent Dako SARS-CoV-2 IgG Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent A...

February 19, 2021 | Friday | News
WHO reveals new molecular assays for TB diagnosis and drug resistance

Significant advances to the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and drug resistance in adults, adolescents and children are...

February 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific launches online 2D-LC systems to characterize complex samples

The Vanquish Online 2D-LC system leverages the performance and ease of use of the innovative Vanquish technology, while ...

February 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
World Federation of Neurology launches Global Brain Health awareness campaign

The World Federation of Neurology is pleased to announce its launch of the Brain Health Initiative, a global campaign to...

February 15, 2021 | Monday | News
FDA approves Bio-Rad’s multi-target reliance SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB RT-PCR assay kits

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products has announced that...

February 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
GenScript receives FDA EUA to use cPass test in convalescent plasma screening

GenScript USA Inc., the world's leading life science research tools and services provider, announced today that it has r...

February 12, 2021 | Friday | News
Globally 128 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered so far, updates WHO

WHo at a media briefing on Feb 10, 2021, updated that globally around 128 million vaccine doses administered so far and ...

February 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
FDA approves monoclonal Abs for COVID-19 treatment

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorisation (EUA) for bamlanivimab and etese...

February 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people

This is counted as a single dose, and may not equal the total number of people vaccinated, depending on the specific dos...

February 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
SmartBreast buys molecular breast imaging assets from GE Healthcare

SmartBreast Corporation (SmartBreast™), a privately held company with headquarters near Pittsburgh, US&n...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | News
GlobalData reports the status of Global COVID-19 vaccine trials

While governments are ramping up vaccination programs, continued research into the effectiveness of the vaccines is impe...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | Analysis
USP expands alcohol-based hand sanitiser support

In response to the alcohol-based hand sanitiser quality incidents reported across the globe, the US Pharmacopeia (USP) i...

February 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
WHO issues new 10-year plan to end suffering from neglected tropical diseases

A new World Health Organization (WHO) road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) proposes ambitious targets and inn...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine demonstrates 89.3% efficacy in UK Phase 3 Trial

Novavax, Inc., a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, announced th...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Bharat Biotech inks agreement with GSK, PATH to supply world's first malaria vaccine

GSK, PATH, and Bharat Biotech (BBIL) on Jan 27, 2021, announced the signing of a product transfer agreement for the mala...

January 31, 2021 | Sunday | News
Merck bolsters Rwanda’s plan to eliminate schistosomiasis by 2024

Merck, a leading science and technology company, and the END Fund have announced their partnership to provide Rwanda wit...

February 1, 2021 | Monday | News
CEPI Call provides up to $140 M in funding to vaccine developers

Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has opened a new funding opportunity to support ...

January 29, 2021 | Friday | News
Eppendorf & Science call out entries for Neurobiology Prize 2021

Eppendorf and the journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2021 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobio...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
COVAX announces new agreement, plans for initial doses of vaccine deliveries

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardle...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific to acquire Mesa Biotech for $450M

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, on Jan 19, 2021 announced it has entered into a...

January 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Pfizer and BioNTech invitro vaccine study shows efficient neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 U.K. strain

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE on Jan 20, 2021 announced results from an in vitro study that provides additional d...

January 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Novartis, GSK explore African genetic diversity for malaria, TB treatment

Novartis and GSK has announced the launch of a collaboration to support high-quality scientific research investigating t...

January 20, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Scientists address vaccine safety & efficacy at global R&D forum

More than 2,800 scientists from 130 countries gathered in a virtual forum last week hosted by the World Health Organizat...

January 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
WHO's Emergency Committee to review the emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2

The sixth meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Heal...

January 18, 2021 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires viral vector manufacturing business

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and Groupe Novasep SAS, a leading supplier of services and technologies for the life scien...

January 18, 2021 | Monday | News
PerkinElmer SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assay receives FDA EUA for asymptomatic testing

PerkinElmer, Inc. announced on Jan 14, 2021 that its PerkinElmer® New Coronavirus Nucleic Acid D...

January 15, 2021 | Friday | News
KSQ Therapeutics and Takeda to develop and market novel Immuno-Oncology therapies

KSQ Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using its proprietary CRISPRomics® discovery platform to systematically sc...

January 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
CEPI reveals significance of blood markers in assessing vaccine efficacy

The past few weeks have seen the regulatory approval of multiple safe and effective vaccines against Sars-CoV-2, the v...

January 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile

The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations on Jan 12, 2021, announced the establishment of a g...

January 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer to acquire Oxford Immunotec for $591M

PerkinElmer, Inc. and Oxford Immunotec Global PLC have reached an agreement on terms under which PerkinElmer w...

January 11, 2021 | Monday | News
Medical waste management market rings in huge opportunities

Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Growth Opportunities in the Medical Waste Management Market in North A...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
“We plan to launch our prevention and early detection service in India”

With its recent entry into India, the company is geared to provide access of its global healthcare services to Indian cu...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine first to receive emergency validation from WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/...

January 1, 2021 | Friday | News
Oncotype DX test can now spare chemotherapy use in early-stage breast cancer

Exact Sciences Corp. on 9 Dec 2020 announced that data from the Rx for Positive Node, Endocrine Responsive Breast Cancer...

December 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NIH funds research to study pediatric COVID-19 and related conditions

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US has awarded eight research grants to develop approaches for identifyin...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
FAO, OIE and WHO commit to joint multi-sectoral efforts in APAC

COVID-19 reignites drive for a “One Health” approach to tackle preventable illnesses at the animal-human-eco...

December 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Argentina officially registers Sputnik V vaccine

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announces the registration of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronaviru...

December 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
COVAX plans global rollout of COVID-19 vaccine starting Q1 2021

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of ...

December 21, 2020 | Monday | News
BD surpasses 1B injection device orders for COVID-19 vaccination

BD, a leading global medical technology company, has announced that it has received orders for needles and syringes in t...

December 18, 2020 | Friday | News
SUEZ unveils new Sievers TOC analyzers for online ultrapure water monitoring

SUEZ – Water Technologies & Solutions has announced the launch of two new Total Organic Carbon (TOC) online an...

December 17, 2020 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca to acquire Alexion for $39B

British multinational AstraZeneca and US based Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement fo...

December 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
WHO launches year-long campaign to help 100 M people quit tobacco

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a year-long global campaign for World No Tobacco Day 2021 - “...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Gates Foundation commits additional $250M in global effort against COVID-19

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will commit an additional $250 million to support th...

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
WHO announces updates on systematic screening for tuberculosis

World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a number of updates to its forthcoming guidance on the systematic screen...

December 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Merck expands life science production capacities in US

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced the broadening of its manufacturing footprint with a comb...

December 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
INOVIO expands global manufacturing consortium for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate

INOVIO, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect peop...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Initial COVID-19 global vaccines roll-out to see some vaccine nationalism

A new report from CPhI explores the potential implications in 2021 of impending vaccine approvals, a new administration ...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
BioNTech-Pfizer apply CMA for COVID-19 Vaccine to the EMA

BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. on 30 Nov 2020 have submitted a formal Application for Conditional Marketing ...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
COVID R&D Alliance announces first patient enrollment in COMMUNITY Trial

Three members of the COVID R&D Alliance - Amgen Inc, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and UCB announced the fi...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca vaccine meet primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19

Positive high-level results from an interim analysis of clinical trials of AZD1222 in the UK and Brazil showed the vacci...

November 27, 2020 | Friday | News
WHO coordinates with DHL to deliver healthcare supplies to Pacific Islands

The World Health Organization coordinated its latest cargo donation through DHL Global Forwarding (DHL), the freight spe...

November 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sputnik V vaccine single dose to be less than $10 at international markets

The cost of one dose of the Sputnik V vaccine for international markets will be less than $10. Sputnik V is a ...

November 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
CEPI's collaborative task force to assess COVID-19 vaccines on emerging viral strains

To rapidly monitor the emergence of new COVID-19 viral strains and evaluate their impact on vaccine candidates in develo...

November 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech demonstrate 95% efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have announced that, after conducting the final efficacy analysis in their ongoing Ph...

November 23, 2020 | Monday | News
WHO reports end of 11th Ebola outbreak in DRC

Nearly six months after the first cases were reported in Equateur Province, the 11th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Re...

November 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
PerkinElmer launches new HPLC, UHPLC and Next Generation Software solution

PerkinElmer, Inc., on 16 Nov 2020 introduced the LC 300TM platform and SimplicityChromTM softwa...

November 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News
IDF calls for improved funding and training of nurses

This World Diabetes Day, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is calling for more nurses to be trained to help pe...

November 16, 2020 | Monday | News
Medtronic launches first integrated smart insulin pen for diabetics

Medtronic plc has announced the launch of InPen™ integrated with real-time Guardian Connect™ CGM data. InPen...

November 13, 2020 | Friday | News
QIAGEN launches portable digital SARS-CoV-2 Ag test

QIAGEN has recently started commercialization of a portable digital test in the United States that can be used by labora...

November 12, 2020 | Thursday | News
PerkinElmer launches new ChemDraw application to accelerate chemistry communication workflows

PerkinElmer, Inc. has launched its newest ChemDraw® application, ChemOffice®+ Cloud, to simplify, faci...

November 11, 2020 | Wednesday | News
EUROIMMUN launches quantitative ELISA to measure SARS-CoV-2 antibodies against Viral S1 protein

PerkinElmer, Inc., announced on 9 Oct 2020 that EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company, has launched the Anti-S...

November 10, 2020 | Tuesday | News
COVID-19 vaccine candidate by Pfizer, BioNTech shows more than 90% effectivity

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced their mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, against SARS-CoV...

November 10, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher partners with Northeastern University to advance biopharma industry

Thermo Fisher Scientific and the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory (BATL) at Northeastern University i...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
PerkinElmer to acquire Horizon Discovery for $383M

PerkinElmer, Inc. and Horizon Discovery Group plc have announced that they have reached an agreement on t...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific advances Biopharmaceutical discovery and development

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Symphogen, an affiliate of and the antibody center of excellence within the international p...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Merck partners with Mammoth Bio to develop new SARS-CoV-2 test

Merck has recently announced a collaboration with Mammoth Biosciences Inc. of South San Francisco, California, USA, for ...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
PerkinElmer COVID-19 test kit receives FDA EUA for sample pooling

PerkinElmer, Inc. announced on 29 Oct 2020 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
Russia applies to WHO for vaccine prequalification of Sputnik V

The Russian Direct Investment Fund, (RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund), has submitted applications to...

October 28, 2020 | Wednesday | News

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