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The agreement expands Pfizer’s access to LNP formulation technology for mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.

The collaboration will leverage Alynlam’s proprietary small interfering RNA (siRNA) technology to inhibit a target discovered by Novartis.

FDA granted Oncoloze’s OM-301 an orphan drug designation for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Bio-Rad’s new assays are designed to measure neutralizing antibodies against wild-type and significant variants of COVID-19.

FDA amended it’s Emergency Use Authorization to shorten Moderna’s vaccine booster dose interval from six to five months.

FDA has cleared an IND from Poseida Therapeutics, allowing continued development of the company’s allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy candidate for treating multiple solid tumors.

The acquisition of Protein Metrics expands Insightful Science’s R&D solutions to include proteomics.

Neurimmune will receive up to $760 million for NI006, an investigational human monoclonal antibody in development for the treatment of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

With this investment into Yapan Bio, Piramal Pharma adds new technologies and capabilities in large molecules, including vaccines and gene therapies, to its global offering.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Invitrogen TrueCut HiFi Cas9 Protein offers the advantage of significantly minimizing off-target events while aiming to retain maximum on-target editing efficiency.

The partnership between OpenEye Scientific and Specifica has generated AbXtract, an antibody discovery model that is included in the Orion Antibody Suite.

The agency is expanding the use of a single booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to children ages 12–15 and is shortening the time between primary vaccination and booster to at least five months.

FDA authorized emergency use of Pfizer’s oral antiviral drug to make the drug available as quickly as possible.

Moderna’s vaccine is weaker against the Omicron variant, but boosters can increase neutralizing antibody levels by as much as 83-fold.

Sanofi’s acquisition will grant access to Amunix's promising immuno-oncology pipeline.

Tezpire (tezepelumab-ckko) has been approved as an add-on maintenance treatment for severe asthma.

The agency recommended granting conditional marketing authorization for use of Nuvaxovid in people 18 years of age and older.

Amgen and Syngene International have extended their research collaboration to 2026.

Genezen has opened its new process development and analytical lab for viral vector production.

Bionique Testing Laboratories has been acquired by Asahi Kasei Medical and will join the company’s biosafety testing services unit.

FDA approved American Regent’s Injectafer (ferric carboxymaltose injection) for the treatment of pediatric patients with iron deficiency anemia.

Lonza plans to ensure consistent product quality by incorporating Agilent’s analytics technology into its Cocoon platform.

Pfizer invested $68.5 million in a facility in Durham, NC.

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific’s new manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands, is now fully operational.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies plans to invest £400 million (US$528 million) to expand its Billingham, Teeside facility in the United Kingdom.

General agreement that FDA needs a confirmed commissioner may speed Califf’s appointment.

The European Medicines Agency has accepted Sanofi’s marketing authorization application for olipudase alfa, a potential new therapy for acid sphingomyelinase deficiency, a rare disease.

Pfizer’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Arena will give them access to a portfolio of immuno-inflammatory therapies.