Twist Bioscience partners with Miroculus on clinical products Synthetic biology company Twist Bioscience announced on February 25 that it has initiated a collaboration with digital microfluidics developer Miroculus for target enrichment and sample library preparation kits.Read More
Sanofi to establish new API company in Europe French pharmaceutical developer Sanofi announced on February 24 that it plans to expand operations by establishing a new independent company to target the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) market in Europe.Read More
FDA enhances Purple Book with biosimilars upgrade The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be upgrading the Purple Book, a database of FDA-licensed biological products, beginning on February 24. Early-phase upgrades will include full search functionality for all biosimilar products and their reference products.Read More
Audentes plans gene therapy facility in NC Audentes Therapeutics has announced that it plans to invest $109 million to build a new 135,00-sq-ft gene therapy manufacturing facility in Sanford, NC, that is expected to be operational by 2021.Read More
MilliporeSigma to make Elypta liquid biopsy kits MilliporeSigma has signed an agreement with Swedish molecular diagnostics company Elypta to be the contract manufacturer for Elypta's clinical diagnostic liquid biopsy kits.Read More
Bioprocessing Summit Europe to be held March 24-26 The Bioprocessing Summit Europe will return to Barcelona, Spain, this year to address the growing global market for gene therapy and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The summit will take place from March 24 to 26.Read More
Catalent completes acquisition of MaSTherCell Catalent announced on February 11 that it has completed its acquisition of MaSTherCell Global, improving Catalent's position in the field of advanced biotherapeutics.Read More