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GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Akeso Pharmaceuticals to speed up novel therapy manufacturing in China

November 06, 2019
  • GE Healthcare Life Sciences will supply Akeso Pharmaceuticals with the FlexFactory™ platform to accelerate the production of antibody drugs in the Guangzhou region
  • Expected to be operational by end of 2020 and create up to 150 jobs upon opening.

November 6, 2019 – Uppsala, Sweden and Guangzhou, China – Akeso Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company specializing in the development and commercialization of novel biologics, will open a new facility in Guangzhou, China, based on GE Healthcare Life Sciences’ FlexFactory platform.

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Mind the talent gap: new biologics facility to upskill Australia's future workforce

July 25, 2019

The opening of a new $11.5m biotech production and training facility at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has been welcomed by government and industry leaders who say fostering and keeping local talent in the burgeoning Life Sciences sector is key to building a globally competitive industry.

At the facility launch today, UTS Vice-Chancellor Professor Attila Brungs said the Biologics Innovation Facility (BIF) is a great example of industry, government and university collaboration to drive the jobs of the future in an emerging industry.

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immunotherapy

What The Software Ordered: New Partnership Pairs AI, Immunotherapy To Boost Odds For Beating Cancer

Tomas Kellner
January 09, 2019

When former U.S.

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bioengineering

Going Viral: A New Kind Of Vaccine Could Change How We Fight Disease

Tomas Kellner
September 17, 2018
The province of North Kivu, in the northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been ravaged by war for much of the last two decades. But this summer, the nearly 6 million people who live there had to fight a new kind of vicious enemy — Ebola. As of Aug. 8, the World Health Organization had received reports of 44 cases, 17 of them confirmed, of this rare but deadly hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus.
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Algae: the new green growth industry

Natalie Filatoff
July 02, 2018

Marine biologist Professor Peter Ralph is leading his team at the University of Technology Sydney to a world first in demonstrating algal production of pharmaceuticals on an industrial scale. Stephen O’Sullivan, business development manager at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, wants to reduce the cost of high-end therapeutics for diseases such as cancer, and to see more Australian science graduates actually employed in Australian science.

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International Day Of Women

Healthy Progress: These Female Leaders Are Driving Innovation In Healthcare

Samantha Shaddock
March 07, 2018

Long before she joined Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright brothers in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Edith Clarke became the first professional electrical engineer in the U.S. in 1923. It was one of many firsts in a colorful career that helped transform the power industry and electrify America. Two decades later, Mary Reynolds strode onto a factory floor in upstate New York.

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Cell Therapy

Pump Up The Volume: ‘Genome Sculpting’ Could Help Scale Biotherapeutic Medicine

March 15, 2017

The first biopharmaceutical drugs using complex organic molecules produced by genetically modified cells to deliver more efficient therapies have already started to write the next chapter of medicine. Treatments designed from lab-made versions of large proteins are now being used to treat cancers and autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis. Research shows they might also do well against infectious diseases.

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Biologics

These Synthetic Snippets Of DNA Could Make A New Generation Of Drugs Available To All

January 24, 2017
There’s more to protein than steak, eggs and the South Beach Diet. The complex molecules encoded by our DNA are the workhorses of our cells, being responsible for growth, maintenance and repair.
The human body holds many thousands of different proteins, and even small typos in the genetic code can lead to diseases and conditions such as diabetes, hemophilia, dwarfism and many others.
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Stem Cells

This Discovery Could Help Us Regenerate Body Parts One Day

November 01, 2016
Pluripotent stem cells hold an almost magical place in the human imagination. These inveterate transformers start out in the embryo as biological blank sheets but change in developing animals and grow into tissues that become the brain, bones, heart, liver and the rest of our bodies. In culture, they can divide endlessly and differentiate into any cell type of the body.
Scientists have long tried to crack their secrets, which could lead to the Holy Grail of medicine: regenerating aging, diseased or damaged body parts.
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Nobel Prize

Life Recycled: How A Simple Fungus Paved The Way To The Nobel Prize

October 25, 2016
Recycling has been an essential human activity ever since early cave dwellers fashioned new tools from flint and bone reclaimed from old or broken implements. You could even say that it is in our genes. Take, for example, autophagy, the process living cells use to deconstruct and reuse their broken or worn-out components.
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