RALEIGH–Sanctuary Systems, a developer and marketer of fiber technology and nonwoven materials, will create 118 jobs at a new facility in the Town of Fremont, local officials said Thursday. The project brings Wayne County a capital investment of $4.9...

Sprout Pharmaceuticals, which makes the only FDA-approved drug for female sexual disfunction often called “Viagra” for women, has raised a debt round.

Elo Life Systems says its blueprint of the vanilla bean genomic sequence may help improve the plant, which is highly dependant on hand-labor and has grown increasingly expensive..Genetic changes could potentially make it possible to grow the tropical bean in other geographic regions.

North Carolina’s economy, which during the last nine months experienced its sharpest decline since the Great Depression, will recover, potentially as soon as 2021, according to John Connaughton, PhD, he Barings Professor of Financial Economics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Grid Therapeutics, another Triangle company working on a promising anti-cancer immunotherapy, has raised a chunk of a combined debt and equity round. Its first treatment offers hope to certain small cell lung cancer patients who have had the disease recurr.