Drug Research

Arzeda, the Protein Design Compan, Twist Bioscience Corporation, TeselaGen Biotechnology Inc. and Labcyte Inc. have partnered to build a state-of-the-art DNA assembly platform to significantly reduce the time and cost required to build genes encoding Arzeda’s designed proteins. The customized...

From 27 November 2018, the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) will be actively enforced by regulators in the US. Here, leaders from across the pharmaceutical sector discuss the industry’s readiness and what companies should be...

The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg and Protagen AG announced a collaboration to utilize Protagen’s Cancer Immunotherapy Array to identify biomarkers that predict therapeutic response and the incidence of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) in urothelial carcinoma patients...

Roundtable questionsIn November 2017, the pharma industry was granted an extension of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) enforcement date to November 2018. Regulators told the market that they would not actively enforce the new serialization requirements until...

Oxford Genetics, a leader in innovative synthetic biology-based technologies for biologics discovery, development and delivery, and ERS Genomics have extended their pre-existing non-exclusive, license agreement for the use of CRISPR gene editing technology. The agreement, which...

Standfirst:There is growing awareness of the valuable role that diagnostics can play, both in the early identification and treatment of dangerous or infectious diseases as well as genetic disorders. The early and accurate identification of one’s predisposition to cancer, sexually...

What is a biosimilar? Whereas generic drugs are identical copycats of small-molecule chemical products, biosimilars are only similar to biologic products; innately more complex than chemical products, biologics are large-molecule, organic drugs, subject to natural variability and vulnerability due to...