Life Sciences

Four life science companies in Central Massachusetts received a combined $1.54 million in tax incentives to create 87 jobs in 2014, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced Wednesday.

Germany-based life sciences company Eppendorf has agreed to donate equipment to Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC).

Antigen Express, the Worcester-based subsidiary of Toronto's Generex Biotechnology Corp., said a Phase II clinical trial of a cancer vaccine corroborates earlier tests.

AbbVie has announced plans to build a $320 million manufacturing plant in Singapore, its first in Asia.

Watertown-based optical detection and analysis company Dynasil Corp. returned to profitability in the first quarter of 2014, following the sale of its lead paint and medical products businesses.

Sales and profits soared at Psychemedics Corp. of Acton in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Biotech startup RXi Pharmaceuticals of Westborough announced Tuesday it was approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market and began trading on the exchange.

Rising sales and cost cuts boosted Boston Scientific's fourth-quarter profit significantly over 2012, the company reported.

Harvard Bioscience is coming off a busy year. It spun off a division and cut about 50...

Completing its first year as an independent company, Chicago-based AbbVie reported worldwide net sales of $5.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013, along with net earnings of $1.1 billion, driven mostly by continuing growth of its arthritis drug Humira.