NCBiotech News

T-Line Hernia Mesh, the newest medical advance from Deep Blue Medial Advances, has just received U.S. Food and Drug Administration marketing clearance. 

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center branded the state’s globally leading agricultural biotechnology hub today as the AgBio[sphere].

 

UPL, a multinational agriculture company based in India, has opened a global research-and-development hub in Research Triangle Park to develop products for sustainable agriculture in partnership with collaborating companies.

Eva Garland Consulting, LLC (EGC) is one of the country’s fastest-growing private businesses – for a third year in a row – as other NC life sciences companies also made the list, according to Inc. magazine.

Federal health officials have tapped RTI International to join a collaboration tracking COVID-19’s ability to cause severe illness and the effectiveness of proposed treatments.

A young Boston-area gene therapy company, Beam Therapeutics, has joined a cluster of gene and cell therapy startups with plans to build an $83 million biomanufacturing facility in Durham that could employ more than 200 people over five years.

A British startup which opened U.S. headquarters in Raleigh earlier this year, Verona Pharma,​ has landed a $200 million “oversubscribed” private placement of stock.

The Dole Food Company has entered a five-year strategic partnership with the young RTP-based ag tech company Elo Life Systems to keep bananas alive and available, because Elo's gene editing technology is uniquely qualified to develop Fusarium-resistant banana varieties.

North Carolina’s economic development efforts are recognized in Business Facilities magazine’s 2020 Metro Rankings Report, with the City of Raleigh number one on its list of GDP leaders in mid-size metro markets.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 34 grants and loans totaling nearly $2 million to universities, biosciences companies and other entities in the fourth quarter of its last fiscal year.

It's an acre under glass.

It's India. Or Brazil. Or Nebraska.

It's high-tech irrigation and feeding, environmentally friendly construction, and more light than you can imagine.

Its official name is the Advanced Crop Lab at Syngenta RTP Innovation Center. It opened Friday under sunny Carolina blue skies that obviated the need for greenhouse lights.

Not that you'd call this a greenhouse.

An entrepreneurial Chapel Hill physician whose research commercialization has been helped by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center has won a prestigious national award.

Grifols, a global biotherapeutics company with major operations in North Carolina, has delivered the first batches of a therapeutic product manufactured in Clayton that could help prevent and treat COVID-19 infection.

North Carolina’s strength in the life sciences and its strong business climate have landed it, again, among the nation’s best on Business Facilities Magazine's 16th Annual Rankings Report for 2020.

Greensboro diagnostics and drug screening company Carolina Liquid Chemistries (CLC) is now selling COVID-19 test kits.