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.

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.

Monroe Biomedical Research (MBR), a dedicated clinical trial site, is growing its footprint to enhance early-phase clinical trials and attract more research opportunities to North Carolina.

Seventy years ago, visionary farmers seized an opportunity to transform the North Carolina landscape along the Atlantic coastline. They drained the land and cleared the trees of a sprawling cypress ...

Arbiom, an agricultural biotechnology company based in Durham, says on its website, “We’re already using wood for our buildings, furniture, floors and more. Why not re-imagine wood as food?” The ...

What started as a regional effort to support local biotechnology startups in southeast North Carolina is now championing entrepreneurs in all five of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s regions ...

Children growing up in impoverished surroundings develop genetic changes in adulthood that are typically associated with exposure to tobacco smoke and other pollutants. That’s the finding of a Duke ...

In late October, Gilead Sciences’ new drug –remdesivir – received a go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first approved treatment for COVID-19 in the United States. The EMA, ...

Fungi-focused food companies are starting to pop up almost overnight, and this Chapel Hill startup is among those leading the charge. Meet The Mushroom Meat Company, founded by husband-wife duo Kesha ...