
Novo Nordisk funds API manufacturing with €726m
Novo Nordisk’s latest expansion of R&D as well as production capacity is motivated by the need to generate more of its GLP-1 agonist semaglutide,...

Vésale Bioscience wins R&D grant
Under the grant provided by the EIC Accelerator Fund for the PhageDiag project, Belgian Vésale Bioscience BV (Namur) will develop a phage therapy...

Benefits of booster campaigns questionable
While Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE financial outlooks in February prognosed more than $50bn in combined coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine sales in...

New polymer can stop biofilm formation
The acrylate co-polymer reported by Jean-Frédéric Dubern and colleagues in Science Advances (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add7474) have the potential to...

Henkel buys FDCA from Avantium NV
From next year, Henkel will buy FDCA to bring environmentally friendly high-performance polyurethane adhesives for electronic applications to market....

C4X Discovery Holdings inks $402m deal with AstraZeneca
Under the agrrement, C4X Discovery Holdings plc (C4XD) will receive pre-clinical milestone payments worth up to $16m ahead of the first clinical...

Novo Holdings invests into standardisation of LC-MS-based proteomics
Novo Holdings, the investment arm of Nordisk A/S has invested €40m in the eight-years-old clinical proteomics specialist Ecosep Aps to benefit from...