Manufacturing investments have taken center stage in recent years — from some pharma giants ramping up GLP-1 manufacturing capacity to meet soaring demand to other companies focusing on advanced capabilities that could ensure an adequate supply of vaccines.

A respected organization acclaimed for their groundbreaking work with neurological diseases, C2N Diagnostics, LLC, is partnering with The Michael J. Fox Foundation For Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to better understand the connections amongst neurodegenerative conditions, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and neuronal a-synuclein disease (NSD), which encompasses Parkinson’s disease (PD), Lewy body dementia (LBD) and REM behavior disorder (RBD).

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a global leader in advanced diagnostics, today announced availability of new Research Use Only (RUO) blood-based biomarker immunoassays designed to advance neurodegenerative disease research. These assays are intended to assess p-Tau217, GFAP, NfL, and APOE ε4 biomarkers, which are emerging as the most important biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases research, including interventional clinical trials.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, headquartered in Massachusetts, announced that it will open a new bioanalytical laboratory in GoCo Health Innovation City, located in Gothenburg, Sweden. The new building, situated adjacent to AstraZeneca's key research location, will improve the company's laboratory services.

Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR and LSE: BNR, the “Company” or “Burning Rock”), a company focused on the application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in the field of precision oncology, today reported financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2024.

Eli Lilly has opened a new R&D facility in the Boston Seaport district with the aim of advancing the firm's RNA and DNA-based therapies, as well as discovering new drug targets and developing new medicines.

Illumina said on Wednesday that it has signed a research collaboration agreement with the National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS) to investigate the genomics of a rare cancer in Asians.

Danaher and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) have launched a collaborative research center aimed at developing CRISPR-based gene therapies for a wide array of diseases.

H.U. Group Holdings Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Fujirebio today announced the availability of the Lumipulse G pTau 217 Plasma assay for the fully automated LUMIPULSE G immunoassay systems. This CLEIA (chemiluminescent enzyme immunoassay) assay allows for the quantitative measurement of Tau phosphorylated at threonine 217 (pTau 217) in human K2EDTA plasma within just 35 minutes.

By studying cell-free DNA methylation (cfDNAme) patterns among pregnant women, researchers in Belgium have developed a liquid biopsy screening test to identify women at risk of early-onset preeclampsia (PE).