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Thermo Fisher Scientific will begin making “hundreds of millions of doses” of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at its Greenville facilities this summer.
A career in biomanufacturing has many benefits including a high average starting salary, minimal training requirements, advancement opportunities, job security and lasting social impact.
Duke University’s Center for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Infectious Disease (WaSH-AID) is developing a ‘Smart Toilet’ that uses artificial intelligence to track bowel health and report data, which aids gastroenterologists in creating and modifying treatment plans
NCBiotech portfolio company Entegrion released results from an Italian study supporting the clinical value of using heel stick blood samples, run on its portable viscoelastic coagulation monitor, in caring for premature babies.
RTP regenerative wound-healing product developer Merakris Therapeutics is launching human testing of a liquid to treat open sores on the skin known as non-healing venous stasis ulcers
Responding to a posting by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s Industrial Internship Program, Madison Ponder wound up as a full-time employee at the Durham precision health startup Higgs Boson Health.
Advanced Animal Diagnostics, a Morrisville diagnostics and data systems company, has $7 million more to explore the human health applications for its technology that was originally focused only on animal health.
Shanghai-based cancer immunotherapy innovator CARsgen has announced plans to invest $157 million to establish a Durham site that will employ 200 people over the next few years.
Andersen Sterilizers has evolved into a thriving family-owned medical device manufacturer headquartered in the small Alamance County town of Haw River, with a new contract sterilization service facility in Research Triangle Park.
Applied LifeSciences & Systems (ALSS) has raised a $7 million Series B equity financing for its high-tech chick vaccination technology.
After 16 years as a stay-at-home mom to three, Deborah Carr earned BioWork certification at her local Johnston Community College and just returned to the workforce in a satisfying new career in biomanufacturing.
Children aged 2 and older will soon be able to get tested at home using LabCorp’s rapid coronavirus test kit.
Durham's Tellus Therapeutics is pushing ahead with developing its neonatal brain injury treatment after landing crucial seed funding this week.
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 48 grants and loans totaling nearly $1.8 million to universities, bioscience companies and other entities in the third quarter of its fiscal year.
Researchers at NC State and UNC Greensboro, with help from an NCBiotech grant, discover a new species of bacteria that is highly attractive to pregnant sand flies that could lead to safe baits or traps to reduce sand fly populations.
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