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AGC Biologics Partners with Pfizer-BioNTech

21.06.2021 -

AGC Biologics has agreed to supply plasmid DNA (pDNA) to Pfizer/BioNTech for their RNA-based Covid-19 vaccine. The biopharma CDMO based in Heidelberg, Germany, will...

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Exscientia Takes AI Specialist Allcyte

18.06.2021 -

UK-based pharmatech Exscientia has entered into a binding agreement to buy Vienna-based Allcyte, a specialist in precision medicine using artificial intelligence (AI)...

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Element Solutions to Buy Coventya

18.06.2021 -

Just weeks after spending $60 million buying UK electro-chemical producer H.K. Wentworth, Element Solutions has offered to acquire Coventya, a French international...

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Trial Shows CureVac’s Covid Shot only 47% Effective

18.06.2021 -

In a stunning setback to the company’s ambitions of launching its mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine in the third quarter, results from CureVac’s Phase 2b/3 trial showed the...

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Wintershall Dea IPO Pushed Back Again

17.06.2021 -

An initial public offering for Wintershall Dea, the oil and gas producer owned by BASF and Letter One – last planned for the second half of 2021 – will not take place...

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Evonik Buys Spain’s Infinitec Activos

17.06.2021 -

Evonik has entered into an agreement to buy Infinitec Activos, a privately owned Spanish company that specializes in the development and production of novel delivery...

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Bioplatform Innovator Raises Fresh Funding

17.06.2021 -

Flagship Pioneering, the venture capital fund behind US Covid vaccine manufacturer Moderna and other biotechs, said it has raised an additional $2.23 billion for its fund...

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Nouryon in Sodium Chlorate Deal with Metsä Fibre

16.06.2021 -

Dutch specialty chemicals company Nouryon has signed a 10-year agreement with Finland’s Metsä Fibre, a major producer of bioproducts, biochemicals and bioenergy, to...