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Why Primary Cells Are Important for In Vitro ADME-Tox Studies

Lonza is a large, multinational corporation serving the entire pharmaceutical product development and manufacturing pipeline, from non-clinical research products to final dosage and delivery solutions.

From Lonza 26 Mar 2020

Hospital suppliers take to the skies to combat dire shortages of COVID-19 gear

Hospitals in the New York City area are turning to a private distributor to airlift millions of protective masks out of China.

25 Mar 2020

Stratasys ramps up production of 3D-printed protection equipment in response to COVID-19 pandemic

Stratasys Ltd. has announced a global mobilization of the company’s 3D printing resources and expertise to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, spanning its Stratasys, GrabCAD, Stratasys Direct Manufacturing and partner network with donated printing capacity across all regions.

From Stratasys 25 Mar 2020

Evonik named Champion CMO across all six eligible categories

Evonik, one of the world’s largest and most specialized CMOs for APIs, HPAPIs and advanced intermediates, today announced it was one of only a few companies to have received a special Champion award across all six eligible categories at the 2020 Life Science Leader CMO Leadership Awards.

From Evonik 25 Mar 2020

Researchers uncover molecular link between trans fats and variety of disorders

Tohoku University researchers in Japan have uncovered a molecular link between some trans fats and a variety of disorders, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.

25 Mar 2020

Why hoarding of hydroxychloroquine needs to stop

A family of old antimalarial drugs — including one that some patients rely on to treat their lupus or rheumatoid arthritis — is becoming harder to get in the United States, pharmacists say, partly because of remarks President Donald Trump has made, highlighting the drugs as a potential treatment for COVID-19.

25 Mar 2020

Projects to develop COVID-19 vaccines receive U.K. gov’t funding

The U.K. government backs six projects aimed to fight the coronavirus outbreak, promising $23 million (£20 million) in funding. The projects, including two focused on vaccination trials, will help fast track the development of a vaccine to stop the spread of the coronavirus, leading to the death of more than 16,500 people across the globe.

24 Mar 2020

Celltrion announces key milestones in its efforts to fight COVID-19

Celltrion Group today announced key milestones in its efforts to fight the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

23 Mar 2020

The COVID-19 vaccine pipeline

Major nations are in a race to make an effective vaccine that could help treat the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19. As hundreds of thousands are infected across the world and over sixteen thousand killed, the pandemic shows no signs of relenting.

23 Mar 2020

Graphite nanoplatelets on medical devices can prevent infections

Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 per cent of bacteria which try to attach - a cheap and viable potential solution to a problem which affects millions, costs huge amounts of time and money, and accelerates antibiotic resistance.

23 Mar 2020

Using 'young NK cells' could improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy for cancer patients

Immunotherapy that involves treating cancer with the body's own immune cells, or those of a matched donor, shows promise in clinical trials for some patients, but not all.

22 Mar 2020

MTU engineering experts join open-source ventilator movement to overcome COVID-19

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the research community is looking for solutions. In addition to work on vaccines and medicine, medical technology is needed. In severe cases of COVID-19, the disease attacks the respiratory system, and one of the major bottlenecks in treatment is having enough ventilators.

22 Mar 2020

New data research tool launched to provide a true picture of the UK Life Science industry

A powerful new data research tool has been launched today to better inform policy-makers, strategic investors and companies focused on the UK Life Science industry.

20 Mar 2020

India gives Roche Diagnostics the license to conduct coronavirus tests, looks to delay disease progression

Following the news that the Drug Controller General of India has given license to Roche Diagnostics India to conduct coronavirus tests, Rohit Anand, Medical Devices Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view.

From Roche Sequencing and Life Science 20 Mar 2020

Avantor launches new Protein A Chromatography Resin – PROchievA – that provides supply chain flexibility and improves downstream purification performance for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) production

Avantor, Inc., a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences, advanced technologies and applied materials industries, today announced a new recombinant Protein A affinity chromatography resin used to purify antibodies during mAbs production.

From Avantor 20 Mar 2020

Research aimed at increasing shelf life of radiation drugs offers hope for cancer patients

People with hard-to-reach cancers in the kidney, gut and prostate will have improved hope for early diagnosis and treatment with new research aimed at increasing the shelf life of revolutionary radiation drugs.

19 Mar 2020

First-of-its kind study identifies the hidden costs of avoidable deficiencies in heart failure

Today, the first investigation of its kind, published in Open Heart, has identified the hidden costs of heart failure (HF) due to under-managed but treatable iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA). Leading UK clinicians assessed the one-year data of around 80,000 people with HF as part of the analysis.

19 Mar 2020

A view from the front lines of California’s COVID-19 battle

On Tuesday, Dr. Jeanne Noble devoted time between patient visits to hanging clear 2-gallon plastic bags at each of her colleagues' workstations.

18 Mar 2020

As coronavirus testing gears up, specialized swabs running out

The two top makers of the highly specialized swabs used to test patients for the novel coronavirus are straining to keep up with the demand, even as both the Italian and U.S. governments are working with them to increase production, including at a key manufacturing site in the midst of Italy's outbreak.

17 Mar 2020

Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical and Insilico Medicine announce cancer drug discovery collaboration

Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited, and Insilico Medicine, an artificial intelligence company developing end-to-end drug discovery pipelines, announced today that they are entering a collaboration, applying artificial intelligence technology to drug discovery, to jointly accelerate the process for multiple types of cancer treatment.

16 Mar 2020

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Why Primary Cells Are Important for In Vitro ADME-Tox Studies

Hospital suppliers take to the skies to combat dire shortages of COVID-19 gear

Stratasys ramps up production of 3D-printed protection equipment in response to COVID-19 pandemic

Evonik named Champion CMO across all six eligible categories

Researchers uncover molecular link between trans fats and variety of disorders

Why hoarding of hydroxychloroquine needs to stop

Projects to develop COVID-19 vaccines receive U.K. gov’t funding

Celltrion announces key milestones in its efforts to fight COVID-19

The COVID-19 vaccine pipeline

Graphite nanoplatelets on medical devices can prevent infections

Using 'young NK cells' could improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy for cancer patients

MTU engineering experts join open-source ventilator movement to overcome COVID-19

New data research tool launched to provide a true picture of the UK Life Science industry

India gives Roche Diagnostics the license to conduct coronavirus tests, looks to delay disease progression

Avantor launches new Protein A Chromatography Resin – PROchievA – that provides supply chain flexibility and improves downstream purification performance for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) production

Research aimed at increasing shelf life of radiation drugs offers hope for cancer patients

First-of-its kind study identifies the hidden costs of avoidable deficiencies in heart failure

A view from the front lines of California’s COVID-19 battle

As coronavirus testing gears up, specialized swabs running out

Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical and Insilico Medicine announce cancer drug discovery collaboration

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