Medicine

VALANX and FinaBio partner for rapid conjugate vaccine development

Key Highlights: VALANX Biotech and FinaBio sign joint licensing agreement to commercialise ready-to-conjugate vaccine carrier protein CRM197 will enable rapid development of conjugate vaccines. The new product enables the rapid, high-efficiency conjugation of carrier proteins to polysaccharide antigens for the generation of conjugate vaccines. Under the commercialisation agreement, VALANX will produce ClickCRM using its

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Arts Entertainments

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas Celebrate Diwali with daughter Malti: Honouring their roots

Image Source : INSTAGRAM Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, and their daughter Malti joyfully celebrated Diwali and Halloween together. In a beautiful blend of cultures, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas recently celebrated Diwali with their two-year-old daughter, Malti Marie, showcasing their deep-rooted connection to Indian traditions while living in Hollywood. The couple shared their festive

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Auto

Car deliveries paused after finance commission ruled unlawful

Some car makers have paused sales in the wake of a UK court judgement that taking commissions on car financing is unlawful. The landmark ruling by the Court of Appeal has thrown banks, dealers and car makers into a state of disarray, given that it effectively bans dealers from profiting on finance deals unless the

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Cryptocurrency

Amazon shares jump after Q3 earnings beat

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon shares jumped 6% on Friday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings, driven by growth in its cloud computing and advertising businesses. The stock is up about 32% for the

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Lifestyle Fashion

Fashion designer Rohit Bal passes away

Rohit Bal. Photo: Special Arrangement Designer Rohit Bal, a pioneer who helped put Indian fashion on the global map and dressed celebrities at home, Hollywood and elsewhere, died on Friday (November 1, 2024) night at a south Delhi hospital following a heart attack. He was 63. The celebrated designer, Gudda to his friends, who stitched

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Medicine

DeSci Labs wins gold at the Lab Awards

Key Highlights: DeSci Labs has won the Best Automation & Data Innovation – Organisation prize at this year’s Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024. DeSci Labs picked up the win in the Best Automation & Data Innovation category because of its development of the DeSci Publish platform. DeSci Publish uses Web3 as

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Auto

Rare cars descend on London for free St James’s Spectacle show

The organiser of the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run has announced a new car show presenting landmark models from history of motoring. The St James’s Spectacle is free to attend and will take place on London’s Pall Mall tomorrow, Saturday 2 November, ahead of the London to Brighton Run the following day. It will

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Business

Govt revises wastage, input-output norms for jewellery exports

The government Friday revised the norms related to the permissible amount of wastage with regard to the export of gold, silver and platinum jewellery. The wastage norms are the permissible amount of gold or silver that can be lost during the manufacturing process of jewellery for export. “The wastage permissible and standard input-output norms with

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Legal Law

Anti-vax beliefs widespread in Trump transition team

Earlier this week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. used a Zoom call to tell his supporters that Donald Trump had promised him “control” of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency that includes the Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, as well as the Department of

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Medicine

R&D funding and capital gains: What the budget means for life sciences

Key Highlights: The Chancellor pledged to fund Britain’s membership of Horizon, the European Union’s research and innovation programme, which is worth more than £80 billion to Britain’s science and technology sectors. The government’s flagship announcement for the sector was £520 million for a new life sciences manufacturing fund. It also protected the £20.4 billion

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Technology

Post Office scandal affected relationships of two-thirds of victims

Almost two-thirds of people hit by the Post Office Horizon scandal have had their personal relationships affected by it, according to the findings of a survey. The survey figures, revealed in a Post Office scandal Public Inquiry paper, also revealed how the adult children of former subpostmasters experienced bullying, financial issues and mental health

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Auto

Contradictory Budget encourages drivers to stick with old ICE cars

All industry eyes on chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first Budget were peeled for an announcement about the desired introduction of incentives to help boost flagging private electric car sales, not that many held out much hope of their introduction. When so many taxes are going up, offering handouts for expensive goods was never going to be a likely outcome

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Home Kitchen

Best frozen roast potatoes named in supermarket taste test

There’s no shame in swapping fresh, homemade dinner items for frozen alternatives, especially at Christmas. While some people will argue there’s nothing better than glass-like roasties made from scratch, those short on time or yet to master the perfect recipe can always rely on supermarket products. Frozen roasties offer a convenient, cost-effective and high-quality alternative

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Legal Law

Toxic X users sabotage Community Notes that could derail disinfo, report says

In July, an international NGO that monitors human rights abuses and corruption, Global Witness, found 45 “bot-like accounts that collectively produced around 610,000 posts” in a two-month period this summer on X, “amplifying racist and sexualized abuse, conspiracy theories, and climate disinformation” ahead of the UK general election. Those accounts “posted prolifically during the UK

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Medicine

Sterling expands GMP ADC manufacturing capacity at Deeside

Key Highlights: Sterling Pharma Solutions, announced the second phase of an expansion strategy at its Deeside, UK site to support antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) development, with a more than £10 million investment to increase GMP bioconjugation capacity. A new 2,300-square foot suite is being commissioned to allow clinical-scale manufacturing using reactors up to 500 litres

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