bioLIVE to introduce global biopharma country ranking

bioLIVE – the UBM bioprocessing and manufacturing event opening in October (9-11) in Madrid – announces that it is to build on the success of last year’s global small molecule country rankings by introducing a biologics manufacturing and processing league table. The results of which will rank the perception of the world’s largest biologics markets […]

Lundbeck signs $1.1bn deal for Prexton and Parkinson’s drug

Lundbeck has given its R&D pipeline a boost with $1.1bn deal to acquire Prexton Therapeutics and its mid-stage Parkinson’s disease (PD) candidate foliglurax. The agreement gives Lundbeck what it says is a first-in-class, oral glutamate mGluR4 positive allosteric modulator in a phase II trial for PD. The drug is Prexton’s only clinical asset. Foliglurax (also […]

Givaudan to acquire Naturex

Givaudan, the global leader in the creation of flavours and fragrances, has entered into an agreement to acquire  Naturex, the global leader in specialty plant-based natural ingredients. The transaction is part of Givaudan’s 2020 strategy to strengthen its capabilities in natural flavour solutions for its customers and will create a clear market leader in natural […]

Henkel partners with Waste Free Oceans to fight marine litter

Henkel has announced a new partnership with Waste Free Oceans to remove plastic waste from oceans and rivers – and transform it into over a million bottles used for its Lovables laundry brand. The collaboration is the largest that the non-governmental organization has agreed so far and will run for at least three years. Together, […]

SONGWON Industrial Group reports strong sales performance in FY 2017

SONGWON Industrial Group today reported its financial results for FY2017. In Q4/2017 ended December 31, 2017, sales continued to grow and SONGWON achieved consolidated revenues of 724.9 Billion KRW with a 4.4% increase year-over-year. Although not reaching the same level as the previous year, the results in 2017 were achieved in a far more challenging […]

Applied DNA and Rosier deliver SigNature-tagged fertilizer to Turkey and Africa

Applied DNA Sciences has fulfilled an order for the Company’s SigNature molecular tags to track granular fertilizer destined for delivery by Rosier to Turkey and several African countries. This initial commercial order follows last year’s successful pilots, where tagged fertilizer was tracked throughout a supply chain in Africa, and successfully authenticated in the field in […]

Potassium could boost efficiency of next-generation solar cells

An international research team led by the UK’s University of Cambridge has discovered that the incorporation of potassium iodide ‘healed’ the defects and immobilized ion movement, which, thus far, have restricted the efficiency of economical perovskite solar cells. These next-generation solar cells could be employed as an efficiency-boosting layer on top of present silicon-based solar […]

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals joins green hydrogen partnership

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, a subsidiary of Dutch paint and coatings giant AkzoNobel, has joined a Swedish research project looking at the potential of using hydrogen to store excess renewable electricity. AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals announced its involvement in the project last week. The scheme will explore the potential for converting renewable electricity into green hydrogen or […]

Auto industry tip improves smoked food

Infusing foods with smoke can impart delicious nuanced flavours, but the process can cause the formation of carcinogens. To reduce the carcinogen content of smoked foods, researchers have taken a lesson from the automobile industry, running the smoke through a zeolite filter to remove harmful compounds. The researchers present their work last week at the […]