Some of industry’s biggest players are joining forces to bring cost-effective yet scientifically backed offerings to the nutraceuticals market. Co-creation is reinvigorating supplement innovation, pairing together companies’ diverse expertise, sales networks and clinical trial investments.
GlaxoSmithKline has spent many years developing and testing its world-first malaria vaccine, but even after a positive recommendation from European regulators in 2015, the shot still isn’t widely deployed. That’s set to change with the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) blessing for the vaccine.
A sample of Henrietta Lacks’ tissue was taken from her cervix without her consent while she was undergoing cancer treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. Her cells have subsequently been used to develop the polio vaccine, HPV vaccines and gene-mapping techniques and continue to be sold for research purposes by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
