5 NEWS NOVALGEN

NovalGen forms partnership with HALIX B.V. to manufacture clinical materials

NovalGen, a biopharmaceutical company developing breakthrough cancer therapies and HALIX B.V., a contract development and manufacturing organisation, have agreed a strategic partnership wherein HALIX will manufacture clinical supplies for NovalGen’s therapies.

6 NEWS WUXI APPTEC

WuXi AppTec acquires OXGENE to strengthen cell and gene therapy offerings

WuXi AppTec, a Shanghai, China-headquartered global provider of R&D- and manufacturingenabling services in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, has acquired OXGENE, a pioneering United Kingdom-based contract research and development organization that designs and develops scalable gene therapy technologies. This acquisition enables WuXi AppTec to offer its customers end-to-end support in the creation and […]

7 NEWS LJI

LJI gives Leinco Tech exclusive access to SARSCoV- 2 antibodies against nucleocapsid protein

La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), a leading research organization focussed on studying the immune system has signed a licensing agreement with Leinco Technologies, a premier developer and manufacturer of leading-edge recombinant proteins, antibodies, and conjugates. Leinco also provides custom manufacturing services to the diagnostic and biopharmaceutical industries to leverage proprietary COVID-19 antibodies developed at […]

8 NEWS UPM

UPM Biomedicals and CELLINK form collaboration for groundbreaking 3D bioprinting developments

UPM Biomedicals will collaborate with bioconvergence company CELLINK to bring together UPM’s expertise for producing non-animal derived, nanocellulose biomaterials with CELLINK’s years of experience in method development for 3D bioprinting, offering new ground-breaking solutions to this growing life sciences market.

9 NEWS BIO RAD

Bio-Rad launches Western Blot Learning Center

Bio-Rad Laboratories, a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostic products, has launched the Bio-Rad Western Blotting Learning Center, an online library that provides comprehensive resources, information, and guidance to help researchers improve their experimental western blotting (or immunoblotting) approaches to obtain high-quality data.

10 NEWS AVACTA

Avacta signs diagnostic licensing deal with Biokit

Avacta Group, the developer of cancer therapies and diagnostics based on its proprietary Affimer and pre|CISION platforms, has entered into a license agreement with Biokit, a Werfen Company, to incorporate Affimer reagents into a Biokit in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) product.

11 NEWS MICROSCOPIC

A microscopic look at aneurysm repair

Hitting a pothole on the road in just the wrong way might create a bulge on the tire, a weakened spot that will almost certainly lead to an eventual flat tire. But what if that tire could immediately begin reknitting its rubber, reinforcing the bulge and preventing it from bursting?

12 NEWS IMMUNOTHERAPY

New immunotherapy target discovered for malignant brain tumour

Scientists say they have discovered a potential new target for immunotherapy of malignant brain tumours, which so far have resisted the ground-breaking cancer treatment based on harnessing the body’s immune system. The discovery, reported in the journal CELL, emerged from laboratory experiments and has no immediate implications for treating patients.

13 NEWS IMPROVED

Improved use of databases could save billions of euro in health care costs

Years of suffering and billions of euro in global health care costs, arising from osteoporosisrelated bone fractures, could be eliminated using big data to target vulnerable patients, according to researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.

New gene variant linked to stroke

Researchers a have identified a gene variant that can cause cerebral small vessel disease and stroke.