NCBiotech News

The FDA has accepted the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application and also granted the therapy Orphan Drug Designation, a status that gives companies tax reductions and other incentives to develop treatments for rare diseases.

Bryn Pharma, a privately held Raleigh medical device company, is on track to soon provide people who have severe, possibly life-threatening allergies a needle-free option to treat anaphylaxis.

A hand-held fluid resuscitation device developed by Durham start-up 410 Medical has been generating major buzz and billings for its unique design and potential to improve patient care.

Duke University School of Nursing is teaming up with NCBiotech to host a new Healthcare Innovation Conference on February 21 to encourage nurses and other health care workers to turn their ideas Into solutions.

A workshop to be held in Research Triangle Park on Feb. 12 will help set pest management priorities for the fledging sorghum industry in North Carolina and surrounding states.

Deerfield Management, an investment management, information and philanthropy firm, has given the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill an injection of up to $65 million to spur drug discovery and development.

As CEO of Durham startup Novoclem Therapeutics, long-time pharmaceutical executive Anne Whitaker says she’s involved in a personal battle.

AgBiome, an agricultural technology firm that harnesses plant microbiomes to develop novel crop protection products, is teaming up with a French ag tech company to develop biotech corn traits resistant to the most common species of insect pests in maize.

The warming climate means we should expect more floods, more droughts and a decline in some important crop nutrients, but good soil management practices may mitigate some of the worst effects.

With rapid shifts in the blueberry and cranberry industries calling for higher fruit quality, researchers at North Carolina State University have received funding for a project lead by Massimo Iorizzo at the university's new Plants for Human Health Institute.

Cary-based SAS, a global powerhouse in analytics software and services, is creating a new agricultural technology business unit to help farmers feed a growing global population that is projected to reach 10 billion people by 2050.

As UNC Charlotte biology doctoral student Farida Yasmin advances her research into the wild soybean and its potential to address worldwide food scarcity, she continues to grow her impact and her knowledge.

Merck announces a $57 million investment at the company's Wilson plant to establish a filling and packaging line for its RotaTeq vaccine. The expansion will increase employment by about 55 jobs over the next two years.

Fertilizer usually means promoting growth of crops. However, Jack Odle, Ph.D., is studying how feeding prebiotics (indigestible fiber parts of foods) to piglets fertilizes the “good” bacteria in their guts and improves their health while also informing nutrition practices for human newborns.

Vestaron, a start-up that recently moved its corporate headquarters to RTP from Kalamazoo, is moving to commercialize the use of bee-safe peptide-based bioinsecticides.