In Depth 9 Dec 2019 As Big Pharma Abandons Neuroscience, Can Biotech Provide Answers? With big pharma exiting the neurology space in droves, biotech innovation might be the key to bring about a much-needed shift. At the Bio-Europe conference in Hamburg last month, experts weighed in on the challenges and future of neuroscience. Over the last decade, big pharma has become disillusioned with neuroscience research. Eli Lilly, Amgen, Pfizer, […] December 9, 2019 - 9 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 15 Oct 2019 Four New Technologies That Will Change Cancer Treatment New approaches to tame the immune system in the fight against cancer are getting us closer to a future where cancer becomes a curable disease. Personalized vaccines, cell therapy, gene editing and microbiome treatments are four technologies that will change the way cancer is treated. Curing cancer is certainly one of the big challenges of […] October 15, 2019 - 9 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 2 Sep 2019 How the DIY Diabetes Community Made the Artificial Pancreas Possible Six years ago, his three-year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. This led Milos Kozak, a software developer from Prague, to join the DIY diabetes community. “After the diagnosis, I started to look for some solutions because I was really disappointed by the technology available on the market for diabetes,” Kozak told me. That’s […] September 2, 2019 - 8 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 11 Jun 2019 Gamma Delta T Cells: A New Hope Against Cancer A new wave of therapies based on a unique type of immune cells, called gamma delta T cells, has the potential to treat cancer with stronger responses and fewer side effects. Immunotherapies based on T cells are becoming a huge trend in the treatment of cancer, especially CAR-T cells. These genetically-modified T cells have shown […] June 11, 2019 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 4 Jun 2019 Ultra-Fast Diagnostics Could Transform Sexual Health Each day more than one million people around the world acquire sexually transmitted infections, with a profound impact on sexual and reproductive health across the globe. Biotechs across Europe are developing rapid diagnostics for some of the most common STIs. It’s difficult to comprehend the sheer scale of the number of people affected by sexually […] June 4, 2019 - 7 minutesmins - By David Cox Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 15 May 2019 The Missing Piece in the Microbiome Field Over the last decade, the biotech industry has built a lot of hype around the emerging field of microbiome research. Its potential to treat all sorts of diseases has captured the imagination of scientists and the number of early-stage studies is growing massively day by day. These studies have found correlation between the human microbiome […] May 15, 2019 - 7 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 9 Apr 2019 Beyond the Lab-Grown Burger: ‘Cellular Agriculture’ is Taking Over the Food Industry It’s been 6 years since scientists grew the world’s first beef burger made without the cow in the lab. As it nears its supermarket debut, researchers around the world are joining the cellular agriculture movement and growing all sorts of animal products, including delicacies such as foie gras and bluefin tuna, without the animal. As […] April 9, 2019 - 7 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 25 Mar 2019 Where Does Brexit Leave European Biotech? In the next couple of months, the UK will officially exit the EU, in a move that is popularly known as Brexit. With this date fast approaching, companies, organizations and individuals all over the world have speculated about how Brexit might impact them. According to the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, at the launch of […] March 25, 2019 - 9 minutesmins - By Karen O’Hanlon Cohrt Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 18 Mar 2019 The Search for a Better Biofuel: Can Biotech Deliver? With dire climate change reports landing one after another in 2018 the need for sustainable, scalable, and affordable biofuels to aid in this transition to a more sustainable future has never been greater. Ticking all three boxes is no easy task, but the biotech sector has several promising solutions in development. Producing carbon-neutral fuels from […] March 18, 2019 - 7 minutesmins - By Farhan Mitha Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 11 Mar 2019 The Three Steps Needed to Fully Automate the Artificial Pancreas New advances in diabetes research are making it possible to develop a fully automated insulin delivery system that can control blood sugar without any input from the patient. This so-called artificial pancreas could be here within the next decade, but there are still three main challenges that scientists have to address to get us there. […] March 11, 2019 - 11 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 25 Feb 2019 Accelerator or Incubator? What to Look for in a Biotech Startup Program Early stage biotech companies and scientists interested in commercialization need great accelerator programs, not more biotech incubators. Biotech companies and scientists who start out on the road to commercialization may need an accelerator to bring out the entrepreneurial spirit. The incubator and accelerator models are conflated all the time in biotech, much to the fury […] February 25, 2019 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 19 Feb 2019 How New Microbiome Diagnostic Technologies Can Save Lives With the rise of a whole new field of research around the microbiome, what role are new technologies to identify microorganisms playing in the future of healthcare? Traditionally, microbes have been seen solely as a threat. But in the last few years, microbiome research has started to shift this view. Today, we know certain microorganisms […] February 19, 2019 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email