From 2019-2023, North Carolina increased the number of life sciences business establishments by 43%. To learn more in the TEConomy 2024 report, click here.

In the early 1980s, Genentech produced the first biotech drug – insulin. North Carolina’s leaders took note and planted the seeds to grow a life sciences sector in North Carolina. In 1984, they formed ...

Flourish Research, a multi-site clinical trials company based in Apex, has acquired a California clinical research facility.

There’s a new biotech company setting up shop in the Triangle, and it’s flush with cash and headed up by some big names in the industry. Meet Kriya Therapeutics – the brainchild of Dr. Shankar ...

Over the past year my colleague Nandini Mendu, Ph.D., senior director, agriculture sector development, has been working on a strategic project looking into North Carolina’s animal health and nutrition ...

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 27 loans and grants totaling about $1.8 million to companies and universities across the state during the final quarter of its 2014-2015 fiscal year ...

Swiss-based Syngenta, which has its U.S. headquarters in Greensboro and its Advanced Crop Lab in Research Triangle Park, has obtained a non-exclusive license from the Broad Institute of MIT and ...

Rendering shows courtyard view of Syngenta complex with $94 million R&D and office expansion. CLICK ON THE PHOTO FOR MORE IMAGES OF THE PROJECT. Photo courtesy of Syngenta Biotechnology. Just two ...

Greensboro-based Kepley BioSystems (KBI), developer of a reusable, synthetic bait for the lobster and crab fisheries and other marine technologies, is one of only 11 U.S. companies invited to ...

Entegrion blood specialists test a sample of Stasix, the company's freeze-dried battlefield replacement for blood platelets that can have a three-year shelf life. -- Entegrion photo It’s almost a form ...

It has been a good run lately for Shengmin Sang, Ph.D. Sang, associate professor and lead scientist in the Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies at North Carolina Agricultural and ...

Eight years ago the North Carolina Biotechnology Center put nearly $60,000 into Harold Kohn's epilepsy research quest at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That grant helped Kohn develop ...