WuXi Biologics has agreed to sell its Dundalk vaccine manufacturing facility to Merck, a move that will enhance asset efficiencies and allow the company to focus on CDMO services at its other global sites.

Orbis Medicines secures €90m in Series A funding to accelerate the development of oral macrocycle drugs, leveraging automated chemistry and machine learning.

In parallel with the expansion of its collaboration with SK Bioscience Co. Ltd, the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi SA has announced Phase III testing of its licensed pneumococcal conjugate vaccine PCV21.

Kufstein-based Single Use Support appointed Darren Verlenden as CEO and strengthens leadership team.

Screening a library of 712 market-approved drugs, German researchers have found that a cough medicine most efficiently reduced incurable lung fibrosis in mice and in vitro.

LAB Automation – The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is transforming the global life sciences community by uniting interdisciplinary researchers and technology providers to drive innovation in laboratory automation and research.

Novo Nordiks has licenced Photys Therapeutics PHICS platform to target a single cardiometabolic target. Photys got US$186m upfront.

Generative AI specialist DeepLife SAS has raises US$10m in a Series A financing led by YZR Capital and Relyens Innovation Santé with participation from Beiersdorf Venture Capital, Prunay Group, and existing investors.

Researchers at Sorbonne Paris have discovered that a membrane protein in adipocytes of obese mice and humans changes the lipid composition of adipose tissue macrophages rendering them more inflammatory and reducing insulin resistance.