Emmes CRO acquires Orphan Reach Clinical Research Organization (CRO) Emmes, a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, announced it has acquired Orphan Reach, an organization specialized in clinical research related to rare diseases.Read More
EBRC explains new ethics in engineering research statement The Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) has published a companion paper to its Statement of Ethics in Engineering Biology Research. The new viewpoint paper was published in ACS Synthetic Biology on May 12.Read More
PerkinElmer to acquire Nexcelom for $260M PerkinElmer has entered into an agreement to acquire life sciences instrumentation firm Nexcelom Bioscience for $260 million, a deal that is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2021.Read More
X-Chem debuts OpenDEX software X-Chem has announced the launch of its OpenDEX software, which offers access to DNA-encoded libraries and informatics tools offered in the company's drug discovery platform.Read More
VBI touts positive hepatitis B vaccine results VBI Vaccines' prophylactic 3-antigen hepatitis B vaccine candidate offers better protection from the disease than the mono-antigenic vaccine Engerix-B, according to phase III study results.Read More
Cellectis, Sanofi partner on UCART clinical trials Sanofi has agreed to supply anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody alemtuzumab for use in a lymphodepleting regimen in Cellectis-sponsored universal chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (UCART) trials.Read More