Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

A novel BPM system

The biotech and pharma branch is growing steadily. Many companies have full order books for the next few years and expect growth. This is the basis for new investments in assets and infrastructure. These growing structures often expose vulnerabilities and challenges for the business. Therefore, companies need to increase the stability and efficiency of their processes.

The EU Commission strikes again – New patent ban?

In times of the pandemic it was called to ban patents that are related to Covid-19 vaccines, medicaments, and diagnostics and the European Parliament was in favour of it. Now there is a call from the European Parliament to ban all patents on new genomics techniques (NTG) and plants. Quo vadis?

Scientists create non-digestible aptamer

German researchers for the first time have expanded the half life of oligonucleotide-based drugs using artificial building blocks that mimic the features of RNA/DNA but are not digestible by enzymes.