Global report - June 29, 2022
BIO Bounces Back
Straight after ASCO, BIO 2022 was back in person in San Diego, June 13-17. Some 15,000 delegates from around the world attended. The exhibition hall was packed with national and regional pavilions from every country with skin in the life science game (except, surprisingly and controversially, the UK) and the special biomanufacturing area has grown […]
Global report - May 31, 2022
Pfizer launches “An Accord for a Healthier World”
This initiative aims to provide all of Pfizer’s patented medicines and vaccines available in the US or the European Union on a not-for-profit basis to 1.2 billion people in 45 lower-income countries. The Accord seeks to greatly reduce the health inequities that exist between many lower-income countries and the rest of the world, Pfizer states. […]
Global report - May 24, 2022
These are the winners of the Global Image of the Year Award
Evident has unveiled the winners of its third Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award, an annual competition that recognizes the best in life science imaging. The contest launched on Oct. 19, 2021, with a call for users to submit their best life science microscopy images through Jan. 31, 2022. All entries […]
Global report - May 23, 2022
About 100 generic drugs suspended in Europe
EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended the suspension of the marketing authorizations of several generic medicines tested by Synchron Research Services, a contract research organization (CRO) located in Ahmedabad, India. The recommendation comes after irregularities were found in how the CRO carried out bioequivalence studies, which raised serious concerns about the company’s quality management […]
Global report - May 18, 2022
The war in Ukraine: “Just as everything else, science was affected”
Viktoriia Tsuber worked as a professor and scientist in Poltava State Medical University, in Poltava, Ukraine. She left the country when the war started and she is now continuing her research at Karolinska Institutet in Solna. During her research in Ukraine, Viktoriia Tsuber used methods within the field of bioinformatics to analyze big data sets […]
Global report - March 25, 2022
NLS Insight: Circadian rhythms
This weekend most countries in Europe will spring forward one hour. We take a closer look upon how our inner clock regulates critical functions like behavior, hormone levels, sleep, body temperature and metabolism. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is not removed in 2022 despite the fact that the European Parliament voted to end daylight saving time […]