Catalent’s GPEx technology was used to develop antibody for anti-methamphetamine clinical study.

TxCell announces manufacturing agreement with Lonza for its HLA-A2 CAR-Treg cellular product.

Cambrex invests $5 million in new laboratory expansion at its Karlskoga, Sweden facility.

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies opens Cambridge, MA center to promote collaboration with biotech companies.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers combine two microscope technologies to create sharper, faster images.

The new kit is expected to detect a broad spectrum of pyrogens while offering high reproducibility and sensitivity as well as eliminating the need for live animal testing.

The Amgen Foundation and Harvard University will develop LabXchange, a free online science education platform that will provide digital instruction and virtual lab experiences.

Agilent Technologies expects the acquisition to improve its current software portfolio.

Bosch Packaging Technology will introduce its newest R&D device for continuous oral solid dosage production at Achema 2018.

The company’s new UV-1900 UV-VIS spectrophotometer incorporates features that improve usability, regulatory compliance, and performance.

Rentschler Fill Solutions and Ultragenyx announce fill and finish agreement for the US commercial supply of Mepsevii.

Ingenza, in partnership with the University of Dundee and Drochaid Research Services, will work on a project to recycle CO2 emissions from bioprocessing plants to serve as feedstock and energy inputs.

The agency published two guidance documents to address brand drug makers’ use of REMS to block generic-drug development.

Coperion will be presenting a new, innovative pneumatic conveying process for plastic pellets that consumes up to 35% less power and generates up to 98% less dust at Achema 2018. Fluidlift ecoblue enables manufacturers of plastic granulates to increase product quality while reducing specific power consumption.

The UK’s University of Sheffield opened a new chemical engineering teaching plant for continuous oral solid-dosage pharmaceuticals using GEA’s multipurpose platform.

Rommelag will showcase its single-use, flexible packaging system at Achema 2018.

Rommelag will showcase its blow-fill-seal technology that collectively offers container production, aseptic filling, and container closure.

Bayer received conditional approval from the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice to acquire Monsanto in a deal worth $66 billion.

The new draft guidance addresses the premarketing assessment of a drug’s effect on blood pressure.

FDA sent a warning letter to Jilin Shulan Synthetic Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. after an inspection found CGMP violations including a lack of data integrity.

Bosch Packaging Technology’s capsule filling machine for small batches of hard capsules uses a fully automated, washable containment process.

The updated version of Schubert-Pharma’s Flowmodul unit for packing units into flowpacks features cleanability.

Bosch Packaging Technology will present its new modular freeze dryer at Achema 2018.

GE Healthcare and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) will support scale-up efforts by DiscGenics for a new cell therapy intended to treat back pain.

World Health Organization’s Ebola ring vaccination uses Merck & Co.’s investigational rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine to protect high-risk communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Ebola.

This marks the third FDA approval for the company’s second biomanufacturing plant in Incheon, Korea.

The European Commission has approved Zessly (infliximab), a biosimilar to Johnson & Johnson’s blockbuster Remicade (infliximab).

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik has added compact continuous agglomeration equipment and new control systems to its "modular plant engineering" portfolio.