News and Trends 8 Feb 2018 Janssen Biotech Offers up to $1Bn to Irish Biotech for a Bowel Inflammation Drug Janssen Biotech and Theravance Biopharma will develop together a drug to treat bowel inflammation diseases like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Janssen Biotech has set its eyes on a drug candidate being developed by the Irish Theravance Biopharma. Both have entered an agreement to co-develop and commercialize the drug. In exchange, Theravance is getting $100M (€82M) […] February 8, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 7 Feb 2018 January Has Been the Best Month Ever for Biotech in Spain Biotech in Spain has kicked off 2018 setting a record for the number of acquisitions and fundraisings and their total value combined. Early in January, the Japanese big pharma Takeda announced its intention to acquire TiGenix for €520M. The cell therapy biotech was born in 2011 as a merger of Belgian TiGenix and Spanish Cellerix, […] February 7, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 3 Feb 2018 Deconstructing Patterns: First Science and Art Exhibition Opens at the Francis Crick Institute Deconstructing patterns, the first exhibition of its kind at the Francis Crick Institute, is the result of months of collaborations between scientists and artists. I got a chance to see it at the opening earlier this week. The new exhibition at the Francis Crick Institute puts into perspective the groundbreaking research happening in the scientists’ […] February 3, 2018 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 30 Jan 2018 Update: Pocket Device makes its Debut in Whole Human Genome Sequencing Update (30/01/2018): Oxford Nanopore has published a study in Nature Biotechnology outlining the first use of its pocket MinION device to sequence a human genome. The device was able to read sequences of DNA that are “hundreds of times larger than usual,” helping scientists better reconstruct the whole genome sequence. MinION costs less than $1,000 and […] January 30, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 27 Jan 2018 Biology and Art Take Over the Berlin Central Station The art installation Relationscape connected many Berlin commuters with the future of biology at the capital’s central station. This week, the daily commuters of the German capital got a chance to come face to face with the world of biology. At the entrance of the Berlin Central Station, a huge building made of steel, glass […] January 27, 2018 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 26 Jan 2018 Update: Bionic Implant Restores Vision in a Human for the First Time Update (26/01/2018): A first patient was implanted with Pixium Vision’s PRIMA bionic device. A month after implantation, the device was activated and the patient, who suffered from severe vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reported “a first perception of light from the central zone where there was none previously,” according to principal investigator Dr. […] January 26, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 22 Jan 2018 PharmaMar Stock Crashes After Failed Ovarian Cancer Study PharmaMar’s cancer drug Zepsyre has failed to prove more effective than chemo to treat ovarian cancer in Phase III, leading to a big hit to its stock. Based in Madrid, PharmaMar develops cancer drugs derived from marine organisms. Unfortunately, one of these compounds, lurbinectedin (Zepsyre), has failed to show better efficacy in treating ovarian cancer than chemotherapy in […] January 22, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 22 Jan 2018 Abcam Will Start Selling Over 700 Antibodies from Roche Abcam and Roche have entered an agreement that will let Abcam sell 760 new antibodies to researchers worldwide through its online platform. Inspired by Amazon, Abcam has become one of Europe’s biggest biotechs by building a platform to make it easier for researchers to order the antibodies they need for their experiments. A new deal with […] January 22, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 20 Jan 2018 These Artists Recreate the Origins of Life with Bioluminescence Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand explore the origin of life by creating protocell bioluminescence that evokes the early forms of life on Earth. The origin of life is still a bit of a mystery. Scientists have narrowed it down to a series of processes that must have occurred billions of years ago for life to […] January 20, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 18 Jan 2018 France Gets Ready to Test CAR-Treg Cells to Avoid Transplant Rejection TxCell has received a €1.2 loan from Bpifrance to complete preclinical trials with its CAR-Treg technology for transplant rejection and start human testing. French biotech TxCell is finalizing the preparations to take its first cell therapy to clinical trials. The treatment, called HLA-A2 CAR-Treg, is intended for the prevention of chronic rejection after organ transplantation. […] January 18, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 18 Jan 2018 First Patient Successfully Implanted with Heart Valve Replacement Device French company Kephalios has successfully implanted a new adjustable device to repair a heart valve defect in a human patient for the first time. The first of five patients in a clinical trial at the Vienna General Hospital has received an implant designed to repair mitral valve regurgitation. This disease causes the mitral valve to not close properly […] January 18, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 17 Jan 2018 €9M Round for AI Algorithms to Speed up Drug Development Owkin has raised $11M(€9M) in a Series A round to fund its artificial intelligence platform for medical research and drug discovery. Owkin, based in New York and Paris, was founded in 2016 to develop machine learning algorithms that can deal with the overabundance of information in biology to optimize the drug development process. The company […] January 17, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email