Roche acquisition of Promedior : Swiss drugmaker Roche has agreed to acquire Massachusetts-based biotech company Promedior in a deal worth up to $1.39 billion, as per the latest pharma acquisition news. The acquisition will give full rights for the Swiss pharma giant to Promedior’s portfolio of molecules targeting serious fibrotic diseases, including PRM-151, which holds […]

The US Department of the Interior said that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has proposed to offer nearly 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale through the Lease Sale 254 program, scheduled for March 2020. Lease Sale 254 will include all available unleased areas in the US territorial waters of the Gulf […]

Terason, a US ultrasound imaging company, has partnered with DiA Imaging Analysis, an artificial intelligence-based solutions provider for ultrasound analysis, to provide cardiac solutions for the former’s point-of-care ultrasound devices. The partnership is expected to help clinicians in hospitals and outpatient settings with more accurate and objective image analysis, who otherwise commonly analyze ultrasound images […]

The Netherlands-based Avansya has started production at its new $50 million fermentation facility in Blair, Nebraska of EverSweet – a non-artificial, zero-calorie stevia sweetener. The Avansya fermentation facility will produce sweet-tasting molecules like Reb M and Reb D, the ingredients to make EverSweet. The stevia sweetener factory is expected to provide food and beverage producers […]