29.03.2017
- UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals are investing in a gene sequencing project that uses anonymous patient data held by the UK Biobank. The...
14.03.2017
- US President Donald Trump has chosen Scott Gottlieb to head the Food and Drug Administration. The 44-year-old former physician, who served as deputy FDA commissioner of medical and...
03.03.2017
- Cancer Research UK, its commercial arm Cancer Research Technology (CRT) and Chinese life science company HitGen have entered into a license agreement to develop a novel class of...
28.02.2017
- French drugmaker Sanofi and Swiss fine chemicals producer and toll manufacturing specialist Lonza plan to jointly invest in a new €270 million large-scale mammalian cell culture...
09.02.2017
- Chief executives of more than 160 biotechnology companies have written an open letter to scientific journal Nature Biotechnology, expressing their “deep concern and opposition” to...
02.02.2017
- Pharmaserv Logistics, which specializes in pharmaceutical logistics, temperature-controlled exports and pre-wholesale solutions, has concluded a contract with vaccine manufacturer...
02.02.2017
- US biotech firm Ginkgo Bioworks has acquired Gen9, a provider of synthetic DNA, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, said Ginkgo, will bring Gen9’s expertise in assembling...
27.01.2017
- Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has won its battle to acquire Swiss biotechnology firm Actelion. The deal announced on Jan. 26 foresees the New Jersey, USA-based healthcare company...
16.01.2017
- UK-based Silence Therapeutics has acquired an 8.4% equity stake in US biotech group Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals to potentially advance progress in novel RNA therapeutics. Silence...
10.01.2017
- Following a Jan. 9 meeting between would-be merger partners Dow Chemical and DuPont, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the outcome of the regulatory authority’s...
