News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is teaming up with Google Genomics to break down technical barriers hindering biomedical research by creating tools to analyze reams of new genomic data.
Canada has asked importers to quarantine APIs made by India’s Polydrug Laboratories over concerns about its manufacturing plant in Ambarnath in Maharashtra.
Bracket Global has acquired Boston-based Clintara, which will allow Bracket to integrate the Clintara platform of trial surveillance tools into its electronic platform for Clinical Outcome Assessments (eCOA).
Swiss CMO Lonza and Canada’s Octane Biotech have entered an exclusive technology evaluation of the Octane Cocoon cell production platform for personalized cell therapy manufacturing with the goal of a global deployment.
Allergan is set to acquire Kythera Biopharmaceuticals for $2.1bn (€1.9bn) and add the recently approved injectable ‘double-chin’ drug Kybella to its facial aesthetics portfolio.