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With panic buying of face masks and no hand sanitiser on chemists’ shelves, there is no doubt that the latest COVID-19 outbreak is having a global effect. Schools are closing, conferences and sporting events are being cancelled… it is...

Sinclair Research, a leading provider of nonclinical contract research services, will officially open its 20,000-square-foot laboratory expansion later this spring. The additional capacity will support GLP nonclinical toxicology research studies to meet the growing demand from pharmaceutical customers for...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its diagnostic test that can be used immediately by CLIA high-complexity laboratories...

BioNTech SE provides further details on the Company’s R&D effort, “Project Lightspeed”, to develop a potential vaccine to induce immunity and prevent COVID-19 infection in response to the growing global health threat posed by the disease. BioNTech’s product candidate,...

San Francisco based-Nurix has closed its funding round with a total of $120m. The financing was led by Foresite Capital and supported by new investors Bain Capital Life Sciences, Boxer Capital, EcoR1 Capital, Redmile Group and Wellington Management Company....

Mallinckrodt has started exploring inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) as a potential supportive measure for COVID-19 patients with pulmonary complications. The company partnered with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Biomedical Advanced...

To help fight the current COVID-19 pandemic in India, specialty chemicals company LANXESS India has donated its highly effective Rely+On™ Virkon™ disinfectant to Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to reduce the cross contamination of COVID-19 in civic hospitals and other...