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The German mRNA giant BioNTech has sealed a pact worth up to $1 billion with Biotheus to develop the Chinese biotech company’s bispecific antibody cancer drug PM8002 in all territories except for Greater China.
Science and technology company Merck has announced the expansion of its facility in Lenexa, Kansas, USA, adding 9,100 sq m2 of lab space and production capability to manufacture cell culture media.
The biopharma sector has seen recent advancements in process intensification, especially in relation to upstream processing, with the technology employed aimed at increasing drug output. One of the quickest and simplest ways to achieve process intensification...
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB) said the expansion of its large-scale microbial manufacturing facility at the Billingham campus in the north-east of England, has got underway.
A $76m investment in the facility in Grand Island, New York, will increase capacity to produce raw materials used in manufacture of vaccines and biologic therapies.
Fujifilm Corporation is to invest US$1.6bn (€1.4bn) to boost the business of its subsidiary, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB), a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO).
Fujifilm Irvine Scientific, Inc, has announced the acquisition of Shenandoah Biotechnology, a company supplying recombinant proteins to the drug discovery, life science research, and cell and gene therapy markets.
Semarion Ltd, a University of Cambridge spin-out company combining materials engineering and cell biology to tackle unmet drug screening needs, has just closed a £2.14m (US$2.89m) seed funding round.
Over the last 18 months, Aceto has made a series of manufacturing acquisitions, allowing it to better serve customers in biopharmaceutical, vaccine and pharmaceutical industries. It is now investing in several of its newly-acquired North American facilities:...
Australia company, Inventia Life Science, which is focused on advanced 3D cell cultures for research and clinical purposes, has just closed a US$25M Series B funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures.
Boehringer Ingelheim has inaugurated a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical production facility in Vienna, Austria: representing the single largest investment in the company’s history.
Fujifilm Irvine Scientific Inc has started the commissioning phase of its new 250,000 square feet (22,800 square meter) cell culture media manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands; the site joins existing plants in the US and Japan.
Contract development and manufacturing organization, Catalent, has invested in the capabilities at its clinical supply services facility in Philadelphia, in the US, to further support biotech firms developing cell and gene therapies.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced a new, first-of-its-kind human plasma-like cell culture medium that more closely resembles the natural cellular environment found in the human body to provide researchers with a realistic view of cell growth.
Aiming to improve flexibility in bioprocessing, Eppendorf launches SciVario twin, a bioreactor control system enabling remote monitoring of microbial and cell culture processes.
908 Devices launches Rebel, a bioprocess analyzer, enabling researchers to conduct their own cell culture media analysis to accelerate process development ‘by weeks’.
By InVitria launches xeno-free service within $5.2bn media market
Xeno-free media will continue to increase its share of the estimated 30m litre mammalian cell culture market says InVitria, which has launched a new formulation service.
Nearly half the respondents of our second state of the global biomanufacturing survey believe we are too reliant on Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) expression systems.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has cut its full year guidance, citing the negative impact of hurricane Maria, customer destocking and ongoing issues with a cell culture media supplier.
AbbVie has opened a mammalian cell culture-based drug manufacturing facility equipped with both stainless and single-use equipment, as part of a $320m investment in Singapore.
Lonza has launched an updated version of its cell imaging technology, which it says has improved image capture and data transfer options, and enables researchers to monitor cells remotely.
CEO predicts fungal-based protein expression will be a 'CHO Stopper'
Industry is feeling the low yield and high cost limitations of the CHO cell line and must look to alternatives to make next-generation biological products, says fungal-based protein expression firm Dyadic International.
Modular facilities and single-use systems are fast becoming a standard part of the bioproduction infrastructure as industry looks to mitigate future capacity constraints.
Horizon Discovery will allow researchers to modify a genome sequence based on its knock-out CHO K1 cell line in a bid to drive innovation in bioproduction.
Irvine Scientific has announced plans for an R&D centre at its site in Irvine, California citing increasing biopharma industry demand for cell culture and media regents.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has announced it will combine technologies with US-based cell culture analysers Nova Biomedical, as a result of increased customer demand.
A second single-use production line could offer commercial-scale capacity for bispecific antibodies but Glenmark says it would need to scale-up further to support more traditional biologics.
An inconsistent lot of excipient Poloxamer 188 cut biologic yield 30%, but working with supplier BASF was key to prevent future problems, according to Roche.
Lot-to-lot consistency is key for fetal bovine serum (FBS) supply, says Nucleus Biologics which is offering clients stable volumes and prices on its single-sourced serum.
GE Healthcare has teamed up with the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) in an effort to remove trial and error from the cell line optimization process.
Repligen has launched a single-use version of its XCell ATF cell retention system which can reduce implementation costs by as much as 55% compared to its stainless steel equivalent.
