A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...

To prevent dominance by an acknowledged adversary, the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) calls ...

CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - A growing biotech and pharmaceuticals manufacturer that announced a large investment in Greater Cincinnati a little over a year ago has unveiled new ...

The biotech industry may be cooling off, but there’s still plenty to be excited about when it comes to the underlying innovations. Chances are, the next great medical breakthrough is already in ...

Cell programming biotech bit.bio is slimming its workforce by 25% as the company pivots to focus on biomedical tools instead of therapeutics development. The decision was driven by “shifting ...

Biotech is where science and technology meet to create innovative and impactful solutions such as diagnostics and drug development to deliver personalized patient care for life-threatening illnesses.

One day, the nitroplast may revolutionize farming. "It's one of the Holy Grails of biotechnology," says Jon Zehr, a now-retired microbial ecologist from UC Santa Cruz — the ability to engineer ...

A Boston biotech try­ing to bring trans­fer RNA (tR­NA) bi­ol­o­gy to the drug de­vel­op­ment field has shut­tered op­er­a­tions, End­points News has learned.

Otsuka’s Taiho Pharmaceutical is paying $400 million upfront to acquire Switzerland’s Araris Biotech and its antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) linker platform. The two companies have been working ...

AstraZeneca has struck a deal to acquire biotechnology company EsoBiotec for up to $1bn, as the London-listed pharmaceutical group expands its investments in cell therapies for treating cancer.