Sample Preparation for Quality Control: Solutions for Optimized Workflows and Accurate Results

Quality control (QC) is a critical step in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry. Every manufacturer must demonstrate that its drugs are consistently produced, safe, potent, and pure. The number of tests that must be...

Why multipartite viruses infect plants rather than animals

Credit: Tokyo Tech Multipartite viruses have a strange lifestyle. Their genome is split up into different viral particles that, in principle, propagate independently. Completing the replication cycle,...

Biotechnology General opens production line to boost manufacturing capacity – The Jerusalem Post

English: Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ global headquarters in St-Prex, Switzerland. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Biotechnology General (BTG), an Israeli-based company, launched a production line that increases the capacity of mammalian drug production at an...

Asebio Investor Day – European Biotechnology

According to Spain's biotech association, the investor day attracted 60 investors from nine countries and provided more than 500 partnering opportunities for the 280 companies participating. Furthermore, the investment forum, designed to introduce Spanish...

Better Living through Molecular Neuropharmacology

/* custom css */ .td_uid_1_5d93885e8bb5c_rand { min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .td_uid_2_5d93885e8bdda_rand { vertical-align: baseline; } People in need of psychological or neurological care used to be subjected to bloodlettings, purgings, exorcisms, and even...

Horizon Discovery announces full commercial licensing of GS knockout CHO K1 cell line to...

Sep 30 2019 Horizon Discovery Group plc (“Horizon”), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, today announced the full commercial licensing to Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a global...

Optoceutics technique opens up new horizons for regenerative medicine

Using light to facilitate the formation of new blood vessels: it is the breakthrough outcome of a research study carried out by researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Milan (Italy). The study...

NASA finds Typhoon Mitag’s eye east of Taiwan

Credit: NASA Worldview NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Mitag’s cloud-filled eye, located east of Taiwan. On Sept. 30, the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument...

MicroRNA Biomarkers Make Melanoma Diagnosis More Objective

Melanoma is the least common type of skin cancer but one of the most deadly, and the survival rate for advanced disease is just 20%. Although melanoma is curable when detected early, diagnosis is...

Immune therapy eliminates tumour cells in early triple negative breast cancer

ESMO 2019 Congress, Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2019, Barcelona, Spain Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Barcelona, Spain 29 September 2019 – Immune therapy added to...