TAP Biosystems installs CellBase CT system at PrimeCell to provide multiple Autologous Cell Therapies.

The long awaited global review on antimicrobial resistance by economist Lord Jim O’Neill has been published. It sets out an action plan to defeat superbugs with a huge awareness campaign and rapid diagnostics to be used before antibiotics are prescribed.

Bayer is deepening its involvement in CRISPR with a licensing agreement for genome editing patents. Irish partner ERS Genomics holds the rights to the CRISPR/Cas9 tech from Emmanuelle Charpentier, one of the inventors.

Hansa Medical, a Swedish biopharmaceutical company focusing on novel immunomodulatory enzymes, has appointed Henk Doude van Troostwijk as Vice President, Commercial Operations.

Molecular Devices®, market leader in microplate reader technology for over 25 years, has announced the launch of its SpectraMax® i3 Multi-Mode Detection Platform with SpectraMax® MiniMax® Imaging Cytometer.

Newly spun out company OxStem has raised £16.9m (€21.5m) to develop regenerative meds for the treatment of age-related disease. It is the largest financing for an Oxford spin-out – or any UK academic spin-out – to date.

Swiss Genentech partner AC Immune has raised CHF42.7m (€38.6m) in order to advance its therapeutic and diagnostic product pipeline in Alzheimer’s disease. The news follows a recently announced R&D collaboration with Biogen.

The Oligo PRO 96XT system provides fast, automated and economical size-based purity analysis of single stranded DNA and RNA oligonucleotides, and double stranded RNA interference (RNAi) products.

Belgian CRO and service provider Genea has appointed a new Chief Medical Officer. Jörn Balzer will be responsible for the clinical, safety and risk management in Genae’s research services.

Diabetes vaccine developer Diamyd Medical has a new CEO. From now on, Ulf Hannelius will lead the Stockholm-based company.