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Precision nutrition plant based diet

On the surface, a plant-based diet sounds simple. Obviously, a plant-based diet centers on plants: fruits, veggies, whole grains, nuts, seeds, beans and legumes. Strictly speaking, it excludes all animal products, including not only meat but eggs and dairy. What all plant-based diets have in common is that they emphasize eating mostly minimally processed plant… Read More: Precision nutrition plant based diet »

Novartis’ AveXis opens Zolgensma plant in Colorado with 350 employees

Less than a year after buying a U.S. plant from AstraZeneca, Novartis’ biotech AveXis has it ready for production of Zolgensma, its gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy. The new plant will help it get the treatment for the rare genetic disease to more patients. It also is building a plant in North Carolina that… Read More: Novartis’ AveXis opens Zolgensma plant in Colorado with 350 employees »

Novartis reclaims sterile products plant in Canada after sale goes south  

Call it a marriage gone bad. Novartis is expected to soon regain control of the Sandoz Boucherville sterile drug manufacturing site in Canada that it sold to Avara Pharmaceuticals last year. It turns out the relationship went bad almost as soon as it was consummated.  The plant and development center that Novartis sold to Avara was… Read More: Novartis reclaims sterile products plant in Canada after sale goes… »