Avoiding animal testing with vegan antibodies

Spin-off project "Ymolution" launched

26-Nov-2024 - A project started at the University Medical Center Greifswald in November that will lead to the founding of a company in just a few months. A research team from the Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genome Research has developed a new method for producing nanoantibodies that ...

Halozyme withdraws proposal to acquire Evotec

Unwillingness to engage in discussion

26-Nov-2024 - Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. announced it has withdrawn its non-binding proposal to acquire Evotec SE for €11.00 per share in cash, implying a fully diluted equity value of €2.0 billion. Helen Torley,president and chief executive officer of Halozyme, shared the following statement: "We continue ...

Rigaku BioScience Lab Opens in USA

To provide new visualization technologies for biopharmaceuticals at the world's largest bio-science research hub

25-Nov-2024 - Rigaku Corporation, a Rigaku Holdings Group company that serves as a global solution partner for X-ray analytical equipment (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; “Rigaku”), opened Rigaku BioScience Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Rigaku has begun operation of MoleQlyze at the ...

Sartorius Stedim Biotech opens new Center for Bioprocess Innovation in Marlborough, USA

New research labs and process development services to enable next generation therapeutics

25-Nov-2024 - Sartorius Stedim Biotech opened its new Center for Bioprocess Innovation in Marlborough, Massachusetts. This state-of-the-art facility is designed to foster collaboration, co-development and learning on site with customers and other external innovation partners, applying Sartorius' latest ...

Artificial intelligence is drastically changing the healthcare sector

Companies are engaging with AI and investing in it, but only 29 percent feel well prepared to use GenAI for competitive advantage

25-Nov-2024 - The global healthcare sector is beset by challenges such as cost pressure, a shortage of qualified staff and regulatory requirements. Artificial intelligence (AI), including generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), offers a solution. Executives in the industry share this view, as a survey of ...

Groundbreaking ceremony for new technology and start-up centre at DESY

"The DESY Innovation Factory offers founders excellent conditions to bring new ideas from research into practice even faster"

25-Nov-2024 - A combined total of more than 8,500 square meters of workspace will be created in just three years of construction at two locations: the main site on the DESY campus and a second very close by in the Altona Innovation Park. Complex laboratories, offices, and open working environments will be ...

Revvity broadens relationship with Genomics England to advance genomics in the UK

Collaborating for better baby health

22-Nov-2024 - Revvity, Inc. announced an expansion of its work with Genomics England that leverages both organizations' expertise and resources to advance critical genomic initiatives across the United Kingdom. Building on the parties’ long and productive work history, this advanced collaboration is dedicated ...

Infrareal takes over pharmaceutical and biotech site in Orth, Lower Austria from Takeda

"Our expertise will help us to further expand the site, and we are hoping to attract more companies from these industrie"

20-Nov-2024 - Infrareal Holding GmbH & Co. KG is planning to take over the Takeda pharmaceutical and biotech site in Orth, Lower Austria, 30km east of Vienna. The two companies signed a corresponding transfer agreement. Takeda will transfer the 24-hectare site, including buildings, infrastructure and some ...

KNAUER now officially a place of the future

20-Nov-2024 - The Berlin-based manufacturer of high-tech laboratory instruments has now been awarded the “Zukunftsort Berlin Südwest” seal. Juri Effenberg, project manager of the “Regional Incubator Berlin Southwest”, presented Managing Director Alexandra Knauer with the glass sign at the company's ...

Better standard for laboratory analysis

Spin-off PHABIOC develops innovative laboratory equipment for pharmaceutical and biotech research

20-Nov-2024 - Greater efficiency, speed and precision in laboratory analyses as well as drastically reduced material consumption: with the SpecPlate, the spin-off PHABIOC from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is replacing up to four conventional sample carriers with an innovative design. Series ...