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Healthcare workers and first responders who have symptoms of COVID-19 now can use a LabCorp kit to self-test for the coronavirus at home.
Panaceutics Nutrition, a provider of personalized nutrition products with operations in Research Triangle Park, has closed the first tranche of a committed funding round of over $5 million.
RedHill Biopharma is another step closer to getting one of its potential treatments for COVID-19 tested.
Graduate student volunteers and faculty at NC State are producing personal protective equipment for healthcare workers across North Carolina.
Cambrex Corp., a global provider of small-molecule drug services with growing operations in High Point and Durham, has finished an expansion of its biopharmaceutical analysis capabilities in Durham.
The Raleigh-Durham area is one of the nation's fastest-growing metropolitan areas and offers the lowest operating costs of any major U.S. life science location, says John Boyd, CEO of the Boyd Company, a site selection advisory firm.
Durham scientist Mansukh Wani, Ph.D., whose career at RTI International brought cancer drugs that saved countless lives, died of natural causes last Saturday at the age of 95.
An unusual therapy under development by Fennec Pharmaceuticals is getting an expedited opportunity to protect the hearing of children undergoing chemotherapy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted Liquidia Technologies’ new drug application for its pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment, LIQ861.
Grid Therapeutics has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin human testing of its new cancer immunotherapy.
Durham-based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals will conduct a clinical trial in Brazil to see if its investigational anti-viral drug is effective in treating the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Durham's Arbiom, which is developing technology to convert wood into feed and food, says it has just completed successful trials of its protein product, SylPro, for weanling pig nutrition.
RedHill Biopharma has joined a growing list of companies with North Carolina ties that are seeking solutions to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Women account for a mere 5% of the top leadership of life science companies in North Carolina -- and it's not the only state struggling with that disparity.
Using 3D printers, Morrisville-based Gilero is leading a response to the shortage of COVID-19 protective equipment for healthcare workers.
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