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...The drugmakers Pfizer and Roche said they are piloting use of rFC at some of their facilities....
...The company collaborates with researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research centre, and hires from nearby London universities....
...The active ingredient is used in La Roche Posay’s Lipikar Eczema Med cream....
...Merck, the US pharmaceutical group, is planning to build a £1bn UK hub including research laboratories on a prominent central London site opposite King’s Cross rail station....
...The algorithm could help replace or enhance painstaking laboratory work to identify the structures of proteins, which dictate how they behave....
...Quest is running its laboratories 24 hours a day but there are “more specimens coming in every day than our capacity can handle”, said Mr Davis....
...Outside the US, where the medicine is distributed by Roche, there is neither the same polarisation nor as much awareness. But the ultimate problem is not demand but supply....
...Dean Li, president of Merck research laboratories, said the company remained “resolute in our commitment to contribute to the global effort to relieve the burden of this pandemic on patients, healthcare...
...The smaller units can hold about 4,500 vials, each containing 5 doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, according to Richard Jafrato, general manager of Haier Biomedical UK....
...Public Health England has deemed only three of the many tests on the market to be reliable: those made by the Swiss pharma group Roche, the US multinational Abbott Laboratories, and a lesser known American...
...Why can’t the laboratory companies expand more quickly? The lab companies say there are two factors preventing them from adding extra capacity....
...They require specialist medical staff to perform them and laboratory equipment to analyse them. They are also expensive....
...Officials are putting in place enough laboratories and staff to rapidly increase testing but the chemicals and equipment needed to reach their target remain in short supply as the world scrambles to perform...
...Two US healthcare companies have brought new hope in the fight against coronavirus, with Johnson & Johnson announcing a potential vaccine that could be available early next year and Abbott Laboratories launching...
...The CDC tests take hours to run and require skilled laboratory technicians, which limits the numbers of clinics that can run the test....
...Will a move from the laboratory bench to the boardroom table improve returns for shareholders?...
...Laboratories gather enormous numbers of such files, then combine them with detailed demographic, diet, health and lifestyle records....
...The latter denotes a bespoke drug manufactured specifically for an individual patient, like Novartis’ chimeric antigen receptor therapy (Car-T), which re-engineers a patient’s cells in a laboratory so they...
...Germany’s Merck last year appointed 30-year-old James Kugler as its first chief digital officer, with a degree in biomedical engineering and a tech background....
...They emphasised that the point would not be to create an artificial human, but to spur biomedical research across a broad front....
...When Cellectis, a French biotech group, opened a US subsidiary last year, it dispensed with tradition and picked an unusual location for its new laboratories and offices: New York City....
...New sources of funding have been established by City of London institutions and the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical charity....
...Other developers of companion diagnostics include Abbott Laboratories, Agilent Technologies, Myriad Genetics and Qiagen....
...In November, Granta Park, south of Cambridge, became part of Blackstone, after the US hedge fund bought BioMed Realty, a San Diego-based property fund that specialises in lab space for biomedical science...
...The chairman of Entrega’s scientific advisory board is Robert Langer, a renowned biomedical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It is an amazing time....
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