Keyword: Biotechnology

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Live-Broadcasting of Bioprocesses

10.09.2019 - The quality specifications of biopharmaceuticals are enormous and require a long list of time-consuming analytics. A big disadvantage of these analytics so far was, that their...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Biotechnological Production of Rare Functional Sugar

09.09.2019 - Rare functional sugars provide huge market opportunities. The German company Jennewein Biotechnologie, headquarterd in Rheinbreitbach near Bonn, specializes in in the industrial...

Research & Innovation

Biomade Peptides

09.09.2019 - Peptides make up around 8% of all active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Those molecules are short polymers formed from the linking of ≤100 amino acids. They comprise some of...

Research & Innovation

Coupling Trends in Cultured Meat and Entomophagy

09.09.2019 - Meat produced from cell cultures (i.e., cultured meat) rather than whole animals may be a solution to the problems surrounding our current livestock production system, but it is...

News

Boehringer Buys AMAL Therapeutics

18.07.2019 - Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim has purchased AMAL Therapeutics for an undisclosed sum. AMAL is a private Swiss biotech that is focused on cancer immunotherapy and vaccines derived...

News

Bionure Appoints Lucia Septien as Chief Medical Officer

15.05.2019 - Bionure, a Barcelona, Spain-based clinical stage R&D company specialized in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, has appointed Lucia Septien as chief medical officer (CMO)...

News

Novartis Takes US Biotech IFM Tre

03.04.2019 - Swiss drugmaker Novartis has agreed to buy US biotech IFM Tre in a deal worth nearly $1.6 billion, boosting its portfolio of anti-inflammatory medicines. Novartis will pay $310...

News

Pfizer Takes Stake in French Biotech Vivet

26.03.2019 - Pfizer has taken a 15% equity stake in French privately held biotech Vivet Therapeutics, with an exclusive option to acquire the remaining shares. Vivet is focused on developing...