NCBiotech News

Former Elo Life Systems CEO Fayaz Khazi, Ph.D., has launched a new digital biology company called Traitology, an amalgamation of technology for improving plant traits that improve yields, extend growing seasons, and make crops resilient to climate change and disease.

Durham's HemoSonics has received an FDA OK to use its blood analyzer system in trauma and liver transplantation procedures.

Durham's Deep Blue Medical Advances has just gotten an FDA go-ahead to expand the market for its unique T-Line Hernia Mesh product.

Believer Meats, an Israeli company that is commercializing cultivated meat made from animal cells, has announced plans to build a $123 million, 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Wilson that will employ 100 people when fully operational three years from now.

NC startups FleurirABX, RAIN Scientific, Locus Biosciences and Resilient Biotics are developing technologies to address antibiotic resistance -- a growing global crisis with tremendous public health implications.

Enzyvant and Altavant, wholly owned subsidiaries of Sumitovant Biopharma, are forming a Triangle-based rare-disease biopharma company.

Zymtronix, a startup biotech with operations in RTP and Ithaca, N.Y., has named Adam Monroe as president and COO.

Durham medical device and diagnostics company Baebies has received FDA permission to market a rapid, point-of-care test for the world’s most common enzyme deficiency.

The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro is partnering with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Soldier Center to create a new research initiative called ICONS.

FUJIFILM Corporation is investing $188 million in a cell culture media manufacturing facility in Research Triangle Park, adding more than 100 new jobs.

Triangle's big three research universities, NCBiotech sponsor Venture Day to put early-stage life sciences spinouts together with investors.

The nonprofit Regenerative Medicine Development Organization in Winston-Salem and Cary-based analytics company SAS are joining forces to improve advanced manufacturing for regenerative medicine applications.

Durham-based medical device company 410 Medical has closed on a $6.3 million round of venture capital.

Oerth Bio of Durham and Yara International of Norway are teaming up to promote technology they believe will help farmers around the world deal with climate change – and help us all continue to eat.

Sheila Mikhail, CEO and co-founder of AskBio, and Marcia Eisenberg, Ph.D., senior vice president and chief scientific officer at the Labcorp, comprise 10% of the total class of "Fiercest Women in Life Sciences 2022."