Manufacturing

Corning’s new Ascent fixed bed reactor (FBR) system is an automated bioproduction platform designed to significantly improve yields and reduce bioproduction costs.

The collaboration will focus on the interactions between WTX-124 indukine and KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab).

A new method developed by the NIH bypasses genetic RNA extraction, simplifying the testing process.

BlackBerry’s QNX real-time operating system may create cybersecurity vulnerabilities, according to FDA.

Artiva Biotherapeutics’s new R&D and GMP manufacturing center in San Diego, Calif., for NK cell therapies is expected to open in 2022.

Thermo Fisher’s manufacturing site in Greenville, NC was recognized for manufacturing excellence.

Syngene’s additions include a new microbial facility and an expanded mammalian facility.

Primates inoculated with CV2CoV show improved immune response and protection from various COVID variants.

Biotage’s new facility in Cardiff, UK, will produce lipids using large-scale flash purification.

PNI expands global headquarters with a new 75,000-square-foot facility, which will include multiple GMP suites for manufacturing RNA therapeutics and vaccines.

Rentschler Biopharma has broken ground nearby its Milford, Mass., site where it will build its new multi-product manufacturing facility for commercial production of complex molecules.

Lykan Bioscience and Vineti will combine their capabilities to streamline process development and manufacturing to move cell therapies through clinical phases to commercialization.

Recro acquires CDMO IRISYS, establishing a bi-coastal presence in the US.

A research team at the Keck Graduate Institute will work to adapt its decade-long low-cost vaccine R&D for developing countries into a COVID-19 vaccine.

A collaboration between Aldevron and Ginkgo Bioworks has resulted in a manufacturing enhancement that can improve production of an enzyme used for mRNA therapeutics.

Veraxa and Indivumed will work together to develop colorectal antibody drugs.

Lonza and Sheba Medical Center have successfully dosed four patients with a CD19 autologous CAR-T cell therapy using Lonza’s Cocoon automated manufacturing platform.

Moderna will build an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada to provide access to domestically manufactured vaccines against respiratory viruses.

The Just - Evotec Biologics facility in Redmond, Wash., uses the company’s J.POD technology.

Nobelpharma has come to terms on an agreement to use ProBioGen’s vaccine manufacturing platform AGE1.CR.plX.

Datwyler offers the StarterPack packaging system designed to aid in the development of parenteral drug packaging.

AGC Biologics has acquired Novartis’ Longmont, Colorado, manufacturing facility for the commercial production of cell and gene therapies.

Novavax and European Commission have finalized an agreement to purchase up to 200 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

BeiGene plans to build a new campus for R&D and commercial-scale biopharmaceutical manufacturing in Hopewell, NJ.

Catalent finalizes their acquisition of iPSC developer and manufacturer RheinCell Therapeutics.