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The Massachusetts site, formerly associated with an affiliate of Shire, is Rentschler Biopharma’s first facility in the US.

The company has brought a second stream of high-throughput GMP peptide manufacturing online.

The STERIS ProKlenz ONE alkaline cleaner now has a label performance claim for biofilm removal, in addition to the product’s existing label as a disinfectant and virucide.

Agilent and other partners are funding development of Tapestri, a single-cell sequencing platform designed to help predict cancer relapse in individual patients and show the efficacy of gene-editing experiments.

The merged companies will provide histopathology services in the research and pre-clinical therapeutics markets.

The $62-billion acquisition of Shire by Takeda Pharmaceutical was approved by both sets of shareholders.

The company is investing approximately $14 million to expand biologics packaging capabilities and capacity at its biologics manufacturing facility in Bloomington, IN.

The company will use GE Healthcare’s off-the-shelf KUBio biologics factory, which is expected to start operations in 2020, to provide development and manufacturing for early- to late-clinical and early-commercial manufacturing stages.

Shire has announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for Takhzyro (lanadelumab) subcutaneous injection.

GSK and TESARO have entered into a definitive agreement concerning GSK's acquisition of TESARO for an aggregate cash consideration worth approximately $5.1 billion.

The investment builds on a collaboration the companies entered into in 2007 for various biomanufacturing projects.

The contract research organization has increased its US-based early phase clinical capacity and doubled its specialty lab space.

GE’s new facility, which will be operational in 2019, will produce a fiber-based chromatography platform for more efficient biopharmaceutical purification.

Cobra, Pall, and Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult are collaborating to develop continuous manufacturing for gene therapy production.

The new center will integrate biologics drug discovery, development, clinical manufacturing, and commercial manufacturing.

ADC Biotechnology will invest downstream formulation, fill/finish capabilities, and Lock-Release conjugation technology.

The University of South Australia is working to develop needle-free vaccines for Zika, chikingunya, and peanut allergy in a collaboration with Australian biotechnology company Sementis and Enesi Pharma, a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical company.

The new collaborative center aims to serve as a hub for innovations in drug development and manufacturing.

Under the new long-term agreement, Sartorius Stedim Biotech will continue to offer Lonza media and buffer products under non-exclusive terms.

GE Healthcare will collaborate with Wego Pharmaceutical in China for local production and supply of GE Healthcare’s Fortem single-use consumables.

The expanded Frederick, MD, site will help meet global demand for diagnostic instruments and cell and gene therapies for clinical trials.

Formulation issues cause significant drug project delays and project failures, according to a 2018 survey conducted by Informa Pharma Intelligence, Rentschler Biopharma, and LEUKOCARE.

The multi-year collaboration will incorporate NextCure's proprietary FIND-IO platform, a technology designed to identify novel cell-surface molecular interactions that drive functional immune responses in the tumor microenvironment and other disease sites.

The company has rolled out the first batch of TRACON Pharmaceutical’s lead product candidate from its Singapore-based single-use bioreactor.

The expansion adds new capabilities and enhances existing service offerings for both oral and parenteral dosage forms.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies and the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) are collaborating to complete the technology transfer of the expression and purification of model monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) as part of AMECRYS, a research project funded by the European Commission.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has entered into a collaboration with Symphogen to deliver validated, platform workflows for simplified characterisation and quality monitoring of complex therapeutic proteins.

This new partnership provides access to Distributed Bio’s antibody discovery platforms.

A project funded by BioProNET will investigate optimization for bioprocessing of gene therapy vectors using hydrodynamic fluid flow fields.

Kimberly-Clark Professional added the Kimtech A5 Sterile Integrated Hood and Mask XL for head shapes, sizes, and hairstyles that pose a challenge to standard aseptic gowning for cleanroom operators.