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Edition saw 2,400 delegates & visitors representing over 50 countries with 100 high profile speakers and 700 corporates; 1,700 partnering meetings were conducted on the sidelines BioAsia, Asia’s largest Biotechnology and Life-sciences forum and the annual flagship event of the Government of Telangana today concluded after 3-days of insightful deliberations by global leaders of Life Sciences and healthcare. The 16th Edition of the event also saw the highest ever participation of 2,400 delegates and visitors from Healthcare, Biotech, Pharma, Life-Sciences, IT, Academia and Startups representing over 50 countries. Over 100 high profile speakers and more than 700 Corporates participated in…

Abstract Proteins are serving as source of energy and amino acids that contribute to growth and maintenance of the body. Along with nutritional role, proteins are responsible for various physiochemical and sensory properties of foods, and may act as functional and health-promoting ingredients. Many of the physiological and functional properties of proteins are attributed to biologically active peptides which are often encrypted in the native sequence. Native protein serve as a precursor for bioactive peptides which can be produced from the protein precursor by digestive enzymes (gastrointestinal digestion), during food processing (ripening, fermentation, cooking), storage, or by invitro hydrolysis by…

FDA is the world’s largest healthcare agency of USA and is responsible for the development of Science all over the world. It is imperative by the fact that simply a rejection of manufacturing Unit of a company can lead to severe loss on stock exchanges all over the world. But here we are discussing about the quick exit of FDA Chief Dr Scott Gottlieb(46) which is a reaction of several actions that he took and more to some personal reasons here which he think is the priority for him at this time. According to latest reports by Time, CNN, Fortunately…

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw have been chosen as Foreign Members to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). NAE is a US-based private, independent, and non-profit institution, which is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. Reacting to the announcement, Dr Mazumdar-Shaw noted that she is humbled to receive this recognition. She tweeted ‘‘Just learnt of my induction to the National Academy of Engineering NAE – a huge honour – I am humbled to be elected to this prestigious body.’’ This year, the National Academy of Engineering has elected…

Tecan, Maennedorf, Switzerland, has announced the launch of its NGS DreamPrep, a fully automated approach to next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation for research use. The new approach offers quality-controlled, sequencing-ready NGS libraries within hours, with minimal manual interaction and no sample loss. NGS DreamPrep combines the Tecan Fluent liquid handler and Infinite plate reader together with Celero DNA-Seq and Universal Plus mRNA-Seq library preparation kits to improve speed, flexibility, accuracy, and precision. Quantification, normalization, and pooling of samples can all be achieved in significantly shorter timelines compared to other methods that use qPCR or capillary electrophoresis. Importantly, this is the…

Scientist Dr. Ashok Pandey, is in the list of World’s most influential scientist in the world along with nine other Indian scientists. The report is prepared by Clarivate Analytics. Dr. Pandey is the only scientist from CSIR and working in CSIR-IITR Lucknow. I have contacted Dr. Pandey to understand about the various aspects of reports. First of all congratulations to you for this great recognition. Definitely you deserve it, as I have seen you CV and it is having huge lists of your work either in form of research article, books or other related activities. Q- Highly Cited Researchers (HCRs),…

In the upcoming event BioAsia 2019 from 25-27 February 2019, a lot of fruitful discussion are expected to happen regarding business of Life Science, Biotech and Pharma companies in India. In this India’s biggest and finest Biotech industry meet, gathers industry’s leadrs under one roof and discusses ltest ongoings. The event is gaining much wider attention from last few years. In year 2017, intersting ideas were shared by Dr Vas Narsimha , Dr Paul stoffels, Dr Saumya Swaminthan, Prof. Michael Hall, Lasker Awardee 2017, Dr. Udit Batra, Member of the Executive Board, CEO Life Science, Merck , Mr. Satish Reddy,…

Introduction Progress is not about how we grow, it is about how we make a difference in lives of others! This is the guiding principle at Yashraj Biotechnology Limited (YBL), a pioneering biotechnology company located in Navi Mumbai, India. The founder members of the company Mr. Arvind Bhanushali, Mr. Bharat Dagha and Dr. Paresh Bhanushali started the company in 1999 and this year the company is celebrating its 20 years of existence. The company was established with a vision to be the best in the diagnostic field and make diagnostics affordable and easily available to the common man. Today, YBL…

Introduction Founded by Dr. K.I. Varaprasad Reddy in 1993, Shantha Biotechnics was one of the first Indian biotech to create a recombinant product, obtaining World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification for its Hepatitis B vaccine in 2002. Then, the firm grown to 750 employees and brought 11 novel products to market. In 2009, Shantha sold over 120 million doses of Hepatitis B vaccine to dozens of developing countries around the world and had revenues exceeding USD$90 million [1]. Later, in 2019, Shantha Biotechnics was acquired by the multinational giant Sanofi-Aventis (France) at a valuation of USD$784 million. The example given above…

Introduction Protein Biologics are class of Biopharmaceuticals that are composed of protein molecules. Biologics, in general, can be composed of sugars, proteins, or nucleic acids or complex combinations of these substances, or may be living cells or tissues. Other Biologics include vaccines, blood, blood components, allergenics, somatic cells, gene therapies, tissues, recombinant therapeutic protein, and living cells used in cell therapy (including stem cells). Biosimilars are biologics that are highly similar to the reference biological product with no clinically meaningful differences in terms of safety profile, purity, and potency. Protein Biologics and Biosimilars include Modified human proteins, Monoclonal antibodies, Vaccines, Growth factors and cytokines, Hormones, and other protein Blood products.…