Cédric Brock, Author at Labiotech.eu

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French engineer (MSc) in Health Biotechnology, specialized in Immunology and Oncology.

Articles by Cédric Brock

News and Trends 16 Apr 2015

Histalim, already 10 years committed to Histology

In the prestigious Fabre Museum of Montpelier (France), Thursday, April 9, 2015, Histalim organized for his birthday, an afternoon of table speeches around bioservices and also an evening with contemporary art exhibition and concert. Histalim, founded in June 2005, provides services around histology to different players in the pharmaceutical and medical industry and agri-food research. […]

April 16, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 6 Apr 2015

Gene editing to make French fries less unhealthy

A promising biotechnological approach or an innovative way of avoiding regulation? Large companies spend an average of €126M on the development of a genetically engineered crop (GMO), including €32M in regulatory costs. The Agriculture Department once takes two to five years to review applications, though it is trying to reduce that to 13 to 16 […]

April 6, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 3 Apr 2015

Back to Middle Age to re-discover some medicinal treatments

The long medieval period extends in the West over nearly a millennium and gradually enriched its knowledge in the medical field. Admired by the Greeks, Egyptian medicine made reference in Western medicine for millennia. Medical papyri mention over seven hundred healing substances, plant, animal, mineral, composing over a thousand remedies often associated with incantations to […]

April 3, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 5 Mar 2015

Novartis announces completion of transactions with GSK

Completes transactions with GSK including: acquisition of GSK oncology portfolio, creation of Consumer Healthcare joint venture, and sale of non-influenza Vaccines business Sharpens company focus on growing segments of innovative pharmaceuticals, eye care and generics Addition of GSK oncology products and two pipeline compounds is expected to expand Novartis position in targeted therapies and small […]

March 5, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 28 Feb 2015

The biotechnologies applied to the veterinary science, the markets by 2018

France was the first country where the veterinary studies have become institutionalized through the establishment of the first veterinary schools in the eighteenth century. Veterinary science is vital to the study and protection of livestock, herd health and monitoring the spread of disease. It requires the acquisition and application of scientific knowledge in multiple areas […]

February 28, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 23 Feb 2015

Adimab, the secret weapon of the Big Pharma companies

After establishing discovery collaborations with over 30 companies during the past five years (Roche, Pfizer, Genentech, Novartis, Merck, Lilly, Celgene, Novo Nordisk and GSK), it is today with Sanofi that the biotech company Adimab enters into partnership for the development of bispecific antibodies. Adimab integrated antibody discovery and optimization platform, offers unprecedent speed to purify […]

February 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 21 Jan 2015

Review: The CRISPR’s Therapeutical revolution

Six years ago, a new sophisticated prokaryotic defense system, was identified in the structure complex CRISPR-Cas9 (CRISPR, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; Cas, CRISPR associated nuclease). “Resistance is acquired by incorporating short stretches of invading DNA sequences in genomic CRISPR loci ” Brouns, S. J. J., et al. (2008). The CRISPR repeat sequence has […]

January 21, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 7 Dec 2014

Ebola, the fever falls

This article provides an update of the 2014 Ebola outbreak relating to other past outbreaks of this disease. It provides demographic and economic insights into both the disease and the regions affected. It highlights lessons learnt and those that need to be learned. Which sectors are most impacted by this outbreak, and what is the […]

December 7, 2014 - 15 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 2 Dec 2014

Red biotechnology is not restricted to humans

The relevance of biotechnology is certainly not restricted to the human domain, and rightly so, because over the ages humans have always been around animals and even more presently when the ratio of pets per inhabitants increase every year. The food industry and veterinary medicine are constantly trying to improve their traits creating new races, […]

December 2, 2014 - 6 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 8 Nov 2014

First Anti-bacterial Enzyme Against MRSA for Use in Humans

Change the way we fight against bacterial infections: MICREOS launches its first anti-bacterial enzyme for use in humans against MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Micreos, a Dutch biotech company, has developed Staphefekt™, a bacteria-killing enzyme specific to Staphylococcus aureus, which is equally effective in killing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). Emergence of […]

November 8, 2014 - 3 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 30 Oct 2014

Review : Ebola, The True Story

The first outbreaks of Ebola (also known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) have occurred in isolated villages in central Africa, near tropical forests, but the recent outbreak in West Africa has affected major urban centers as well as rural areas. The Ebola virus disease shows an average fatality rate about 50%. In previous outbreaks, the rate […]

October 30, 2014 - 26 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

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