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Astrea Bioseparations has acquired Delta Precision, a manufacturer of chromatography columns for biomanufacturing.

Avantor and Catalent have entered into a multi-year supply and services agreement.

Agilent’s acquisition of Avida grants them access to high-performance enrichment workflows that enable NGS approaches for studying cancer.

Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, will pay Kelun-Biotech up to $9l3 billion for seven early-stage oncology treatments.

Cautiously setting aside pandemic practices, pharma workers appear ready for flux, change, evolution, and expanding molecular diversity.

Coverage of COVID-19 vaccines was surprisingly displaced by this year’s astounding oncology and iconoclastic gene therapy “cures.”

Cell and gene therapies is unequivocally viewed as the biggest opportunity in the bio/pharma space.

GSK and Wave Life Sciences have entered into a collaboration to drive drug discovery and development for novel genetic targets.

AbCellera and Rallybio are teaming up to discover, develop, and commercialize novel antibody-based therapeutics for rare diseases.

Under the collaboration between Vertex and Entrada, the companies will work on discovering and developing intracellular endosomal escape vehicle therapeutics for myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Deeper biological understanding and technology innovations have improved the fate of ADC development.

Amgen’s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, an Irish biotechnology company, is one of the largest of 2022.

PictorLabs, a digital pathology company developing an AI-powered virtual staining platform, formally announced its launch at the start of December.

mRNA may not be a train we necessarily all need to get onboard immediately, but we should know where the central train station is located, and what it connects us to.

AstraZeneca inked a deal worth up to $320 million to purchase Neogene Therapeutics, a biotech start-up focused on T-cell receptor therapies.

Merck will purchase Imago BioSciences, a biotechnology company focused on bone marrow disorders, for approximately $1.35 billion.

The agreement aims to develop integrated technology for large-scale exosome production.

The collaboration will see the companies develop investigational next-generation bispecific immunotherapies for cancer.

The $286 million investment ability is designed to elevate MillioporeSigma’s ability to conduct biosafety testing and analytical development services.

Biotech startup, Cradle, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding with an AI-enabled design platform that allows for the synthetic building of cell factories to produce proteins.

CellVax Therapeutics has selected Theragent, a new CDMO, to manufacture clinical trial material for a new Phase II prostate cancer immunotherapy drug candidate.

The deal will see Sanofi use Insilico’s AI drug discovery platform to advance up to six new drug development candidates.

Salipro Biotech has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Sanofi to advance discovery programs.

The Start-Up Market at CPHI Barcelona brings together 27 start-ups, innovators, and small enterprises from across the pharma landscape.

Gerresheimer and Nelson Labs will work together to conduct extractables and leachables testing on upcoming primary packaging solutions.