Supplier News

After a previously announced merger, Protagen Protein Services, BioAnalytix, and GeneWerk have formed a new CRO under the name ProtaGene.

CDMO Forge Biologics will accelerate its manufacturing capacity expansion using an additional $80 million in funding it recently secured.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies' 89,000 square-foot expansion of its BioProcess Innovation Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., will double its capacity to support process characterization.

The agreeement will add to Merck KGaA’s LNP and mRNA capabilities.

Bio-Rad’s new assays are designed to measure neutralizing antibodies against wild-type and significant variants of COVID-19.

The acquisition of Protein Metrics expands Insightful Science’s R&D solutions to include proteomics.

With this investment into Yapan Bio, Piramal Pharma adds new technologies and capabilities in large molecules, including vaccines and gene therapies, to its global offering.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Invitrogen TrueCut HiFi Cas9 Protein offers the advantage of significantly minimizing off-target events while aiming to retain maximum on-target editing efficiency.

The partnership between OpenEye Scientific and Specifica has generated AbXtract, an antibody discovery model that is included in the Orion Antibody Suite.

Genezen has opened its new process development and analytical lab for viral vector production.

Bionique Testing Laboratories has been acquired by Asahi Kasei Medical and will join the company’s biosafety testing services unit.

Lonza plans to ensure consistent product quality by incorporating Agilent’s analytics technology into its Cocoon platform.

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific’s new manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands, is now fully operational.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies plans to invest £400 million (US$528 million) to expand its Billingham, Teeside facility in the United Kingdom.

Aizon Unify is designed to provide a digital platform for biopharmaceutical data monitoring, analysis, and optimization.

Fareva plans to use blow-fill-seal equipment and ApiJect’s prefilled injector technology to create fill/finish capacity in France.

Lonza has signed a five-year services agreement to provide for the development and manufacturing of biologics and small molecules for portfolio companies owned by Bioqube Ventures.

Leucid Bio will collaborate with Lonza to use Lonza’s Cocoon Platform for clinical and commercial manufacturing of CAR T cells for Leucid’s lead candidate.

Fujifilm’s new cell culture media manufacturing facility in the Netherlands has officially opened.

The additions to Crown Bioscience’s UK facility will increase and expand the company’s current in-vivo offering.

Fujifilm’s center adds local support in Suzhou, China for cell culture media optimization.

Sartorius is investing €100 million (US$113 million) between 2021 and 2025 to expand capacities for production, innovation, and storage at its French facilities in Aubagne, Cergy, and Lourdes.

Sartorius will invest approximately €270 million (US$305 million) to expand its biopharmaceutical manufacturing activities in South Korea’s biopharm hub.

Novozymes and Novo Nordisk Pharmatech are teaming up to develop best-in-class technical enzymes to support biopharmaceutical production processes.

Samsung Biologics, GreenLight Biosciences, and Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. have partnered to advance GreenLight’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

ACG plans to open a capsule manufacturing plant and R&D center in Aurangabad, India.

MilliporeSigma’s new ColorWheel flow cytometry portfolio is designed to create antibodies and dyes analogous to a primary conjugated antibody.

Sartorius’ newly redesigned vacuum filtration units are designed to allow for faster and higher-capacity filtration while offering enhanced stability for sample processing.