An estimated 20,000 participants from over 185 countries are taking part in the 18th International AIDS Conference that began in Vienna on Sunday. The head of the International...

Hamburg/Göttingen - Hamburg-based drug screening specialist Evotec AG has entered into a definitive agreement with a group of shareholders from diabetes and obesity drug-developer...

Brussels – European Biotech lobby group EuropaBio has welcomed the inauguration of the EU’s new High-Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies (KET) that will be advising the...

Vienna – Swissmedic has approved IXIARO®, a vaccine against Japanese encephalitis from Intercell AG that is distributed and marketed by

Brussels/Frankfurt – Agrobiotech companies have warned against the implementation of national GMO bans on the basis of new guidelines that favour thresholds below the EU labelling...

Silvano dalla Libera is a maize farmer who runs a farm in Vivaro in the Friuli region of northern Italy. In 2004, dalla Libera co-founded Futuragra, a...

Berlin – Germany is to invest EUR200 million over the coming 15 years to develop the next generation of biotechnology processes. “The full potential of biotechnology isn’t yet...

Lysaker – Norwegian biopharmaceutical company PCI Biotech Holding ASA has strengthened the company’s equity by a11m (NOK90m) through a share issue of 2.25 million shares with...

London/Copenhagen – British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has changed the conditions of its EUR1.2bn licensing agreement with Danish antibody specialist Genmab. GSK announced it will...

Stockholm – The Swedish Research Council is commissioning the Stockholm-based Karolinska Institute to host two new national infrastructures for research in biomedicine: the...