Novartis has acquired Vedere Bio, giving the company a new platform for AAV-based delivery of gene therapies and an optogenetics program for the treatment and prevention of vision loss and blindness.
A new mathematical modeling study by Ashish Goyal and colleagues, informed by data collected from 25 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in four different countries, offers some important new insights into the optimal timing of four different antiviral...
Scientists have used gene therapy and a newly developed light-sensing protein to restore sight in mice: with the technology to start clinical trials in the US later this year.
Ori Biotech Ltd (Ori), a London and New Jersey based innovator in the cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing sphere, last week announced the successful close of a US$30m Series A financing round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to US$41m.
Locus Biosciences has signed a contract with BARDA to co-fund development of LBP-EC01, a CRISPR Cas3-enhanced bacteriophage (crPhage) that targets E. coli bacteria causing recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Fujifilm is boosting its gene therapy offering, taking the first steps to expand its viral vector contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) services to Europe, at the site of Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB) in the North East of...
The UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing & Innovation Centre (VMIC) announces that the UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the second of two GMP COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing suites located at Oxford Biomedica's...
German life science company Sartorius will merge Slovenian purification specialist BIA Separations with Sartorius Stedim Biotech, in a deal worth €360m ($423m).
Fujifilm Irvine Scientific has become the exclusive, worldwide distributor of cellnest, a recombinant peptide attachment substrate that is said to provide optimal adhesion and proliferation of stem cells in chemically defined, animal component-free conditions.
Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services reported a successful audit outcome by the UK government regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for its Scottish production site.
Catalent recently announced that it is investing US$130m in an expansion project at its viral vector manufacturing facility located in Harmans, Maryland, with five new manufacturing suites set to respond to a growing customer pipeline and market demand.
Viral vector production capacity has become increasingly constrained in recent years due to increases in the therapies in development, the dosages given and the patient populations targeted. COVID-19 is exacerbating the situation.
