A newly discovered virus which infects intestinal bacteria might be a cause of obesity, but could increasing interest in bacteriophages drive new personalised medicines and alternatives to antibiotics?
For live vaccine manufacturers working to extend shelf-life, the discovery that 60-year old smallpox virus found at a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lab could still be viable will be as galling as it is worrying.
Shark antibodies survive in urea concentrations that would denature other proteins thanks to a newly discovered structure that scientists say could be used to make therapeutic mAbs more robust.
A government funded bioprocessing institute is helping to drive biopharma investment and retrain workers in Ireland, and Biopharma-Reporter.com visited to find out what happens in this "flight simulator for biopharma manufacturing."
The US biosimilars market is becoming complicated even before the US FDA has issued manufacturers with clear guidance, thanks to a rapidly evolving patchwork of varying State substitution laws.
Government-backing for a large-scale cell therapy centre is justified because it will help developers navigate the “valley of death” in which many early-phase projects fail says the team planning the new manufacturing hub.
Lab rats are not the only animals to play a role in bologics development as Biopharma-Reporter.com discovered when it donned its wellington boots and took a wonder down to the pharm...
Brad Pitt made himself sick to avoid a zombie virus in World War Z but, despite some real world precedents, he was lucky his gamble paid off according to virus experts we asked.
With more and more biopharmaceutical firms developing therapeutic antibodies public knowledge of these powerful molecules is increasing, which is good news given how badly they've been portrayed in films so far.
Plastic may be greener than stainless steel, but industry still needs to find a more recyclable alternative for biomanufacturing systems according to Greenpeace.
Making germ warfare weapons is banned under the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and there is no evidence signatories or even countries led by any of the World’s crackpot dictators/freedom fighters* are producing them.
Could a genetically engineered adenovirus really spark a simian revolution and make chimps our masters? BioPharma-Reporter.com looks at the ‘science’ of the 2011 movie “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”
