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INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

Argonaut Manufacturing Services | February 02, 2022

Argonaut Manufacturing Services, a leading contract manufacturing organization, and n-Lorem, a nonprofit foundation, today announced a new partnership that supports and reduces the cost of manufacturing of n-Lorem’s experimental antisense oligonucleotide medicines developed for nano-rare disease patients for free, for life. “Providing nano-rare patients, who would otherwise be largely ignored by our current drug discovery paradigm, with a personal...

DIAGNOSTICS

Avantor | June 24, 2022

Avantor, Inc. (NYSE: AVTR), a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences, advanced technologies and applied materials industries has entered into an agreement with GeminiBio to deliver custom hydrated solutions and cell culture media to the biopharma industry. Custom hydrated solutions and cell culture media are critical components of the bioproduction workflow, especially for emerging modalities such as gene therapy. This c...

MEDICAL

Westlake Village BioPartners | December 15, 2020

Westlake Village BioPartners today announced the launch of two new funds totaling $500 million to build and put resources into promising life sciences organizations with transformative therapeutic technologies. The first fund, known as Opportunity 1, is $70 million and permits Westlake to contribute extra Series B or later-round capital into promising organizations they incubated or invested into with their original fund, Westlake BioPartners 1 (WBP1). One example is a begin...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Helix | September 21, 2021

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Helix have announced a strategic collaboration to develop a first-of-its-kind population genomics initiative in South Carolina called In Our DNA SC. The large-scale program is designed to improve health care outcomes by integrating genetic insights into clinical care and research. The statewide initiative will enroll 100,000 patients in genetic testing over the next four years at no cost to the patient. The program will enable th...