Lourdes Riquelme, Author at Labiotech.eu

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Spanish Biotechnologist with a MS in Genetics from Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona. My interests go from science to fashion and anything in between.

Articles by Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 Feb 2015

Highway to Brain

Researchers in Barcelona have developed a shuttle to transport drugs into the brain, running through the blood-brain barrier. If there is an irreplaceable organ, for the moment, that’s the brain. The gray matter is not only protected by the skull, but also by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this […]

February 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Feb 2015

Great news for Great Britain’s synthetic biology

British government will inject the impressive amount of £40M to reinforce UK’s leading position in synthetic biology. UK Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced a £40M investment in UK synthetic biology at the Manchester Institute for Biotechnology. The majority of this investment, £32M, will be used to establish three new Synthetic Biology Research Centres at […]

February 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 14 Feb 2015

GlycoVaxyn: A new Gain for GSK’s Vaccines Business

GSK, who was already a minority shareholder in GlycoVaxyn, acquires the company and its biological conjugation platform which may help it to develop a new generation of prophylactic vaccines against bacterial infections. GSK has today paid €167M to purchase the remaining stake in the company. GlycoVaxyn’s innovative biological conjugation platform originates enables the development of […]

February 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Feb 2015

Neurostimulation, an Innovative Approach to Treat Heart Failure

The revolutionary Equilia system, meant to treat heart failure, has been successfully implanted for the first time in a clinical study . The developer of the system, Sorin Group, is an Italian medical device company, leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Heart failure is a chronic progressive disease in which the heart can no longer […]

February 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 10 Feb 2015

Is Pichia Pastoris the Best Protein Expression System?

Producing biologicals in living expression systems is a big challenge for the Biotech industry. World leaders in the field are betting on a new yield-enhancing expression technology using the yeast Pichia pastoris. Escherichia coli might be the first bacteria you think about when it comes to biotechnology. However, E. coli is not necessarily the best option to produce […]

February 10, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 6 Feb 2015

2014, the Biggest Year Ever for European Biotech IPOs

There is no need to say it: biotechnology is the latest trend. A worldwide bio-boom has shaken stock markets throughout 2014. For European start-ups, last year represented a remarkable step forward as 15 companies went public and raised €719.8M in total, as Biocom’s last report states. Let me present you a review summering the major […]

February 6, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 3 Feb 2015

AYOXXA raises its sights with a new agreement to develop ophthalmic diagnostic tools

New agreement was signed between AYOXXA, an international biotech company with headquarters in Cologne, and the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), one of the leading international eye research institutes. AYOXXA and SERI will work together on validating the company’s multiplexing technology platform for protein biomarker detection, as part of an expanded collaboration for developing ophthalmic […]

February 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 2 Feb 2015

Will 4D Pharma be UK’s next Microbiome leader?

4D Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on significant new therapeutic areas, plan to raise €46M to continue the development of its drugs candidates and to exploit its microbiome platform MicroRx. Will 4DPharma be the next UK’s microbiome leader? This English company, founded in early 2014, has focused its current interests solely in the microbiome field and the discovery […]

February 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 1 Feb 2015

Phenex sells out its main programme to Gilead

Gilead Sciences announces the acquisition of Phenex Pharmaceuticals’ development program for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and other liver diseases. Gilead Sciences and Phenex Pharmaceuticals announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which Gilead will acquire Phenex’s Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) program comprising small molecule FXR agonists for the treatment of liver diseases including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis […]

February 1, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 31 Jan 2015

An Anglo-French Partnership To Cure Hepatitis B

European biotechnology company Valneva and UK company Immune Targeting Systems (ITS) announced that they have signed an exclusive worldwide commercial license agreement. This deal grants ITS the rights to research, develop and commercialize Hepatitis B vaccine candidates in combination with Valneva’s IC31 Adjuvant. Valneva’s IC31 Adjuvant is a unique synthetic adjuvant combining the immuno-stimulating properties […]

January 31, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 30 Jan 2015

The Human Protein Atlas: exploring human geography

Some 20 years ago, before the genomic era, isolating a protein and identifying the tissue where it was present was enough to get a PhD. Swedish researchers just did it for all the proteins in the human body: the equivalent of 20,000 thesis from the pregenomic age, at a stroke. Thanks to the ‘omics’, the […]

January 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 27 Jan 2015

Italian Genenta Science’s Original Strategy to Treat Cancer

Tumor microenvironment, including tumor-associated macrophages, plays a key role in controlling tumor progression and response to therapies. It stimulates tumor growth, supports angiogenesis and tissue remodeling, as well as neutralizes host immunity. Genenta Science is using this mechanism, which is certainly a promising area of cancer biology for the identification of new therapeutic targets. In […]

January 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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