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Sanofi and Lonza formed a joint venture to build and operate a large-scale mammalian cell culture facility for monoclonal antibody production in Visp, Switzerland.

Thermo Fisher Scientific will provide cryo-TEM for small-molecule and biologic drug discovery.

Metrohm USA presented the Young Chemist Award to Aldin Malkoc for his work on cooperative, DNA-based molecular elements for electrochemical biosensors.

The company expanded fill/finish services at its facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The company opened a new bioconjugation unit to support the clinical and commercial manufacturing of ADCs.

The company announced that no Form 483 was observed at the company’s facility in Bangalore, India.

CellGenix will add R&D, production, and warehouse space in Freiburg, Germany for GMP-grade raw materials for cell therapy, gene-therapy, and tissue-engineered products.

Under the agreement, Abzena will manufacture magacizumab, an antibody created using the ‘Abzena inside’ Composite Human Antibody technology.

Sartorius and EMBL have entered into a corporate partnership program to foster advanced training.

Aurobindo has added four cell-culture derived biosimilars to its product line.

Modular Automated Sampling Technology (MAST) allows direct aseptic transfer of bioreactor samples to analytical devices, providing rapid and reliable data in bioprocessing.

On a recent call, Catalent revealed that it has reached more than 90% of its current capacity and discussed how tax policy changes could affect the outsourcing industry.

The company announced an investment in a new facility in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

Operational improvements at Pall contributed to the overall growth in the Danaher life-sciences sector.

The SCIEX PA 800 Plus Pharmaceutical Analysis system is used to identify and quantify glycans to ensure therapeutic efficacy.

SGS invested in test equipment for analyzing extractables and leachables at its New Jersey laboratory.

Vetter expanded visual inspection facilities and controlled-temperature storage at its Ravensburg Vetter West facility in Germany.

The medical cannabis producer has become compliant with EMA’s GMP standards.

WuXi AppTech acquired HD Biosciences, a preclinical drug-discovery-focused CRO.

The company released the Biopharma Compass 2.0 software, which automates workflows for high-resolution mass spectrometry.

The company opened a facility in Spain dedicated to the production of meglumine.

Evotec and MaRS launched Fibrocor Therapeutics, a company dedicated to developing novel therapeutics for fibrosis.

The locations will feature end-to-end bioprocessing centers and will be in Shanghai, China and Boston, MA.

The membrane-based Protein A purification tool was unveiled at the 2017 PepTalk Conference in San Diego, California.

The company made a new strain of the influenza virus available for use as a challenge agent in clinical trials.

UK-based Orchard Therapeutics and PharmaCell ally to support clinical trials and commercialization of Orchard’s ex-vivo gene therapies.

In an attempt to battle low production volumes of hard-to-manufacture biopharmaceuticals, GE Healthcare announced on January 4, 2017 that it will partner with Synpromics on the development of synthetic promotors. The goal of the collaboration is to identify promoters that will work most effectively with GE’s existing expression system for optimal transcription.

The combined company’s turnover is estimated to reach €8 million ($8.35M) in 2017.

AGC adds second biopharma contract manufacturer with acquisition of CMC Biologics.

The contract service provider entered into a contract agreement with the US Army to provide services in the development of treatments of malaria.