Industry S SecureBio
Building a Three-Day Early-Warning system for Novel Pathogens
Detection is only worthwhile if it’s fast enough to trigger an effective response. The OpenAI Foundation has granted SecureBio Detection $17.2M to work on this.
Headlines from across biotech and life sciences, gathered from the industry press. Every story links straight to its publisher.
Industry S SecureBio
Detection is only worthwhile if it’s fast enough to trigger an effective response. The OpenAI Foundation has granted SecureBio Detection $17.2M to work on this.
Software O Omics! Omics!
The Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIMB) annual meeting in Austin the first week of the month was great fun. I caught up with two Warpers, saw some other contacts from that era and met a bunch of new friends. Plus I showed the flag for autonomous laboratories wi…
Clinical
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
70,000 doses of Ervebo have made it to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the vaccine is untested against the currently circulating species
Industry
Drug Discovery and Development
The demand for peptide therapeutics has grown rapidly in recent years, as the success of GLP-1 drugs has catapulted them to the forefront of developers’ and sponsors’ minds. Although peptides still represent a relatively small share of FDA-approved therapeutics, they offer distin…
Manufacturing B BioProcess International
As purification datasets expand and as resin chemistries diversify, predictive modeling is becoming an integral component of modern downstream process development.
Software D Diamond Age Data Science
Coding agents have changed how we work as bioinformaticians. The change is recent enough that most published guidance is already out of date, and the tools are meaningfully different from six months ago. The friction of writing and executing code is mostly gone. We now work…
Industry S SecureBio
Since our March update, we've expanded our biosurveillance network, improved the sensitivity of our nasal swab monitoring program, and built new partnerships.
Regulatory
MHRA
MHRA advises parents and carers against using rectal catheters sold for personal use (known as gas and colic relievers) in babies.
Industry T The Labs Report
Scientific leaps demand capabilities that today’s structure-prediction architectures cannot practically deliver. Working backward from those ambitions led us to LightFold, our new co-folding model.
Industry E EUCOPE
Global Pharma & Biotech Summit 10 -11 November 2026 In-Person & Digital | Convene 22 Bishopsgate, London, UK The Global Pharma and Biotech Summit, organised by the Financial Times, brings together the leaders, investors and policymakers shaping the next phase of li…
Agriculture E European Seed
Crop traits for disease resistance, yield and climate resilience may become easier for breeders to access after researchers identified three genes that suppress recombination in chromosome regions where useful genetic variation has often remained out of reach. The post Gene Disco…
Industry
Drug Discovery and Development
2022 was a big year for layoffs in biopharma. So were the next three. Novartis, for instance, outlined plans to cut up to 8,000 jobs in 2022, after pharmaceutical industry job cuts jumped 280% in 2021. Biogen followed in 2023 with a “Fit for Growth” program that put roughly 1,000…
Industry I In the Pipeline
This is an interesting paper at the intersection of chemistry, botany, and environmental science, and I think it’s probably going to get a fair amount of attention in the press. Unfortunately, it’s also likely that some of the headlines around it are going to mangle the details,…
Manufacturing B BioProcess International
Yapan Bio’s range of services will help to advance PPL’s biologic development and manufacturing.
Manufacturing B BioProcess International
The investigational therapy will be used in clinical trials and seeks to treat conditions such as Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases.
Regulatory
FDA Press Announcements
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an accelerated approval for Genglycos (pariglasgene brecaparvovec-opnr) as the first-ever treatment for adults and children 8 years of age and older with glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSDIa)
Regulatory
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
White House aide Heidi Overton has been tapped to lead the agency after a tumultuous period
Clinical
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
The vaccine from Merck and Moderna prevented melanoma recurrence in combination with Merck’s Keytruda
Manufacturing B BioProcess International
Although the biopharmaceutical industry generally agrees about the advantages of perfusion cell-culture technologies, adoption remains lower than expected. A writer from BioPlan Associates analyzes data from the group’s 2026 survey to gauge how perfusion is being applied and what…
Regulatory
FDA Press Announcements
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Aletta, the first standalone robotic device that can draw blood from a patient’s arm without hands-on operator intervention.
Agriculture E European Seed
Researchers are investigating how fungal pathogens recognise plant surfaces, opening the door to crop-protection strategies that disrupt infection before it begins. The waxy surface of a crop leaf could hold […] The post Leaf Wax Signals Could Help Fight Crop Disease appeared fir…
Software S Scaling Biotech
Just six months after announcing a $50M collaboration giving them access to NOETIK’s virtual cell models, GSK recently announced that they’re expanding their partnership with Relation Therapeutics with a $110M deal to generate perturbational data for virtual cell models.
Software O Omics! Omics!
PacBio had a major shakeup early this month. First came a large round of layoffs, which caught several individuals who were very much the face of innovation on social media. Next came the sudden retirement of CEO Christian Henry, who has appeared in this space multiple time…
Agriculture E European Seed
Malin Nilsson reflects on taking over as secretary general of SVUF, the distinctive needs of Sweden’s seed sector, and the European policy issues shaping plant breeding, farm saved seed and variety protection. The post Malin Nilsson Takes the Lead at Sweden’s SVUF appeared first…
Industry P Patent Docs
By Kevin E. Noonan – The parties in the appeal of the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to Arbutus and Genevant over Moderna, holding Moderna liable for $1.3 billion in patent infringement damages, attracted a fair amount of amicus support. Although Plaintiffs Arbu…
Software M MetaphysicalCells
“Hong Kong is the fusion of East and West, a city that breathes with a dual heartbeat.” Nury Vittachi (1995)
Industry I In the Pipeline
Moderna and Merck have been working together for some years now on cancer therapies that would combine Merck’s Keytruda antibody with personalized mRNA immunotherapy from Moderna (update: in a therapy co-developed and co-owned by both companies). And that “personalized” is no fig…
Software N Nextstrain
Industry C Cell Systems
Eck, Moretti, Schlomann, et al. established technology for quantifying single-cell transcriptional dynamics in live zebrafish embryos via imaging. Applied to the vertebrate segmentation clock, this approach revealed that the smooth oscillations of transcription factors orchestrat…
Industry
Drug Discovery and Development
OpenAI’s first international hospital partnership is taking shape at a giant medical center where English is not the default language and where the electronic health record does not come from Epic, the dominant U.S. EHR vendor. That institution is Sheba Medical Center, the Israel…
Regulatory
Drug Discovery and Development
The FDA has finalized new guidelines for meetings between the FDA and sponsors or applicants relating to the development and review of drugs or biological products under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). The FDA first published…
Agriculture E European Seed
SATEC Equipment’s new managing director Robin Kleinwort is carrying forward the company’s customer-first culture while focusing on intentional growth, expanded global partnerships and continued innovation in seed coating, pelleting and treatment systems. The post Built on Trust,…
Industry
C&EN Pharmaceuticals
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
Software W Weekly Tech+Bio
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Research I In the Pipeline
This is a new investigation here at Science that suggests some serious problems in an area of Alzheimer’s work that’s had a lot of attention in recent years. It’s been known for decades that there are mutations in some families and populations that predispose people towards Alzhe…
Regulatory
MHRA
MHRA publishes position paper clarifying the UK licencing route for microbiome-based medicines, supporting developers to bring these innovative therapies to patients.
Industry
Drug Discovery and Development
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have emerged as one of the busiest and most crowded niches within oncology, given their potential to use an antibody to ferry a potent cytotoxic payload toward tumor cells. The class now spans about 15 FDA-approved products, and the segment is grow…
Software
Drug Discovery and Development
The 1990-founded scientific software firm Schrödinger recently announced a strategic collaboration and software agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) built around Bunsen, Schrödinger’s newly announced agentic AI co-scientist. While the term “AI co-scientist” can have varying…
Agriculture E European Seed
Crop impacts on biodiversity loss and natural carbon storage are highly concentrated, according to new global mapping that links environmental pressure to specific crops, livestock products and regions where targeted action could deliver the largest gains. The post Crop Impacts C…