News and Trends 27 Apr 2016 ‘Disappointing results’ for Novartis & MorphoSys phase III in Muscle Disease MorphoSys confirms that its antibody (bimagrumab) failed to meet the primary endpoint of a phase IIb/III trial for a muscle disease (sIBM), conducted by Novartis. Sad news for Novartis and MorphoSys. The two companies are developing bimagrumab for muscle diseases, as part of their ongoing collaboration, which has already resulted in 11 programmes. Bimagrumab was initially […] April 27, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 11 Feb 2016 Sanofi-Genzyme: Still successful 5 years after the acquisition? Back in 2011, France’s biggest Pharmaceutical company Sanofi decided to purchase Genzyme Corp. for more than $20 billion, thus becoming the latest global drug giant to acquire a big biotech to foster its R&D pipeline. 5 years later, what’s the situation for Genzyme and Sanofi? So often when a large Pharma acquires a smaller Biotech, […] February 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 3 Dec 2015 History of Biotech: How the “First” Biotech Patent Generated Millions The Cohen-Boyer patents were now issued 35 years ago at Stanford University… so what were they and how did they shape the Modern Biotechnology Field? Recombinant DNA (rDNA) products provided a new technology platform for a range of industries, resulting in over US$35 billion in sales for an estimated 2,442 new products. After Genentech was […] December 3, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Marie Godar Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 19 Oct 2015 Synbio Perfumery: Making Smells and Flavors with Microbes Isobionics is a biotech from the Netherlands that specializes in synthetic bio-production of natural essential oils and flavorings for use in the food, perfume and detergent industry. On the other hand, Evolva, from Basel, are estimated to produce up to $500M worth of synthetic vanilla essence for the industry each year. Using bacteria and yeast […] October 19, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 20 Apr 2015 So, what is actually Biotech? Biotechnology is a broad domain, which includes numerous areas such as healing, feeding and fueling the world. Historically-speaking, the biotech sector started in the 80s with the discovery of gene cloning. The first “Biotech” ever born was Genentech (contraction of Gene and Technology), founded in South San Francisco, which successfully produced human insulin in bacteria. The Organisation […] April 20, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Nicolas Sainte-Foie Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 11 Mar 2015 Vitic database, the new must-have tool The latest version of the Vitic Intermediates database, chemical database and information management system, has been released by Lhasa Limited, a leading global supplier of knowledge based software and associated databases. Initiated in 2006, Vitic Intermediates is a cross industry data sharing consortium created and co-ordinated by Lhasa Limited, through the Vitic Nexus platform, supported by […] March 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 19 Sep 2014 Public launch of LaBiotech.eu at Betahaus Berlin Hello everyone, Yesterday, we publicly launched LaBiotech.eu at Betahaus Berlin, the biggest co-working space of the city. It was the big day for the third project of LaBiotech Group after LaBiotech.fr, the leading French biotech news website, and LaBiotech Tour, the first World Tour of Biotech ecosystem. Europe had until now several well-established printed newspaper […] September 19, 2014 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email