Life Sciences

Marlborough medical device and diagnostics manufacturer Hologic, Inc., will air its first consumer-facing television advertisement during the Super Bowl broadcast on Feb. 13, the company announced Thursday.

A real estate management firm paid $76 million for a lab and office complex in Boxborough, which became the site of a major expansion for German biologics company Vibalogics just over a year ago.

Mustang Bio, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in Worcester, has been added to the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, a market-cap weighted index designed to track the performance of biotech and pharmaceutical companies listed on the stock market, according to a Dec. 16 press release from the company.

Marlborough medical device manufacturer Hologic, Inc. on Thursday announced its Panther Trax device passed a series of regulatory tests making it commercially available in international markets.

Rentschler Biopharma, a global contract development and manufacturing organization with offices in Germany and Milford, announced on Monday it has been named among “Germany's most attractive employers” by the F.A.Z. Institute, a German market management institution.

To help you navigate the ins and outs of the region's business community, WBJ has compiled a list for its Economic Forecast edition of 22 people who will have an outsized role in shaping those trends.

Biotechnology in Central Massachusetts is a rapidly growing industry, characterized as much by its big players as its nascent, up-and-coming companies. Together, players old and new stand to define what biotech in and around Worcester will look like for generations to come.

Arch Therapeutics, a Framingham biotechnology company specializing in wound care and biosurgical devices, announced on Monday its AC5 Advanced Wound System would be added to federal contracts.

UMass Chan Medical School has begun construction on the foundation for its nine-story education and research building in Worcester, about five months behind its original schedule.

Worcester's top taxpayers included a couple large players in the downtown block near Worcester Common, as well as several utility companies.