Biotech Foods SL

IFLScience | April 09, 2020

A 60,000-year-old forest submerged in the Gulf of Mexico may hold potential for the development of new medicines and biotechnology in the future – and scientists are only just beginning to understand what other secrets it may hold. Along the banks of a river in Alabama was once a flourishing bald cypress forest. As the trees grew and died, they eventually fell and become buried in peat and sediment. Over time, sea levels rose and covered the ancient forest far beneath the surface of the oc...

Industrial Impact

Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. | February 08, 2022

Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading partner of the biopharma industry, announced today that it closed the acquisition of the Novasep chromatography division as of February 7, 2022, following approval by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The transaction had already been agreed upon at the beginning of 2021. The business acquired generated sales of around 40 million euros in 2020 at a double-digit profit margin; final figures for 2021 are not yet available. The majority of the approximately 100 e...

Research

Abveris, Biosciences | November 12, 2021

Abveris, a leader in antibody drug discovery announced that Prometheus Biosciences and Abveris have entered a multi-year collaboration to develop therapeutic antibodies against multiple targets. The partnership will expand Abveris's role in supporting the rapid development of the Prometheus Biosciences portfolio. The results of the collaboration will bring promising new therapeutics to patients suffering from a variety of immune-mediated diseases. Under this partnership agreem...

Cell and Gene Therapy, Medical

QIAGEN | January 11, 2023

QIAGEN recently announced its acquisition of Verogen, a leader in utilizing next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to advance the future of human identification (HID) and forensic investigation. QIAGEN, which introduced the first commercial kits to purify DNA from forensic casework samples in the late 1990s, is one of the leaders in the HID/forensics sector. Verogen, a privately-owned company launched in 2017, provides NGS tools and professional services to t...