Amplidiag Easy, developed in partnership with Tecan, automates the nucleic acid extraction and PCR plate setup for all Amplidiag diagnostic products. © Mobidiag/Tecan

Molecular diagnostics specialist Mobidiag Ltd has got emergency approval for its Amplidiag® COVID-19 molecular diagnostic test in Finland.

Part of the phylogenetic tree published in PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117. © Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

British researchers have tabled a phylogenetic tree showing different subtypes of SARS-CoV-2 developed in Asia, Europe and the US.

Lady with solnatide vials in production. © Apeptico

Austrian COVID-19 patients with severe lung dysfunction for the first time have a treatment option within a compassionate use program for Apeptico’s solnatide.

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Following the completion of Danaher’s €19.5bn take-over of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, GE’s CDMO arm is renamed Cytiva.
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Low intrinsic efficacy can explain the reduced side effects of new agonists of the m-opioid receptor a British-Australian reseach team reports.

Austrian funding organisation FFG has launched €1m for COVID-19 projects, one of which is Apeptico's project. Furthermore, Apeptico gets funding under a Horizon 2020 grant of €47.5m for 17 COVID-19 projects. ©FFG

Austrian APEPTICO has got Horizon 2020 money for accelerated development and clinical use of Solnatide for the treatment of COVID-19 patients

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The European Medicines Agency EMA has backed eight medicines for approval at its virtual March 2020 meeting.

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Scandinavian researchers have created a unified, open-source model providing a genome-wide portrait of human disease metabolism.

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Paris-based Novacyt SA has signed a global distribution agreement with Bruker Ltd for its COVID-19 diagnostic test.

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AC Immune SA has received a milestone payment of CHF10m from Eli Lilly and Company.