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News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

Funding for university to develop new motor neuron disease therapies

Medical research charity LifeArc, the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND Association) and the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation have jointly awarded £1 million ($1.2 million) to researchers at University College London (UCL) to progress two pioneering new therapies that could help transform the lives of those living with motor neuron disease (MND). The research grants are […]

January 24, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Jan 2023

CytoReason expands deal with Sanofi to look at IBD

CytoReason, which creates computational disease modeling, has announced an expansion of its collaboration with Sanofi. The multi-year collaboration will further fuel Sanofi’s target discovery efforts via CytoReason’s AI platform in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), to identify patient subtypes and pair them with IBD targets. In 2021, Cytoreason announced the initiation of a […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Jose Bengoechea professor Queen’s University in Belfast Northern Ireland

Interview 24 Jan 2023

Watch: Queen’s University tackling antimicrobial resistance

One of the biggest global challenges facing healthcare systems is bacteria and viruses becoming resistant to drugs. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to the deaths of around 700,000 people annually. Without new drugs or ways of dealing with AMR, the number of deaths could reach as many as 10 million per year by 2050 and cause […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 23 Jan 2023

Watch: pHion Therapeutics talks about next-generation mRNA vaccines

pHion Therapeutics is a U.K.-based vaccine development company. It is developing a pipeline of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines focussed on viral infections and oncology. The company’s proprietary RALA platform can deliver anionic molecules, such as mRNA and DNA, in a stealth-like way, evading detection, to generate a potent antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell response. The RALA peptide-based […]

January 23, 2023 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 30: Advanced Therapies Congress, BioAlps, Bionter, C2i Genomics

The guests on our podcast this week are: Jessica Robinson, project director, Advanced Therapies Congress, Terrapinn: Tobias Werk, CEO, Bionter; Asaf Zviran, CEO and co-founder of C2i Genomics; and Magali Bischof, secretary general of BioAlps. We also have our weekly commentary from Travis McCready at global commercial real estate services company JLL. This week’s podcast […]

January 20, 2023

CRISPR Therapeutics, CRISPR-Cas9, genome editing, biotech

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

Aldevron launches type-V CRISPR Nuclease

Aldevron, which develops and manufactures plasmid DNA, RNA and proteins for the biotech industry, has launched Eureca-V Nuclease, the wild-type MAD7 CRISPR Type-V nuclease, licensed from Inscripta, at Research Grade, with GMP to follow.   Aldevron’s launch at Advanced Therapies Week of Eureca-V Nuclease expands the toolkit of available CRISPR nucleases for therapeutic, diagnostic, and agricultural […]

January 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

The magical microbiome

By Brittany Niccum and Han Wei Now that we are past the holiday season and time when we might have over-indulged on rich foods, many of us are seeing how we can help our bodies bounce back. Science can help. Every environment – organic or inorganic – has a myriad of microorganisms living on the […]

January 20, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By External Contributor

In Depth 20 Jan 2023

The future of single-cell microfluidics in cell engineering

By Richard Hammond, chief technical officer at Sphere Fluidics Single-cell microfluidic-based techniques continue to be a key enabling technology for cell engineering as they allow true single-cell level working, with the associated precision of measurement and control of environment, and a high level of automation, enabling the speed and scale necessary to process and search […]

January 20, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

glioblastoma oncolytic virus transgene 2

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

New drug could replace current standard for treating brain cancer

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a WHO grade IV brain tumor with dismal prognosis. Although post-surgical radiation chemotherapy combined with temozolomide is the standard line of treatment, GBM cells surviving radiotherapy contribute to tumor progression and recurrence even more aggressively. Researchers have now unveiled the mechanism of radioresistance in glioblastoma cells, identifying therapeutic targets to overcome radioresistance. […]

January 20, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

DeuterOncology closes financing round to start lung cancer study

DeuterOncology, a clinical-stage drug development company, has closed €5.65 million ($6.1 million) series A financing, to start the phase I clinical study for its lead product DO-2, an improved MET kinase inhibitor currently being developed as a potential best-in-class targeted therapy for lung cancer. The financing included participation from historical investor Newton Biocapital and new […]

January 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Jan 2023

Brenus Pharma and InSphero bag €1.5M for next-generation cancer cell immunotherapy

Brenus Pharma and InSphero AG have received a €1.5 million grant for the collaborative project “STC-1010: A First-in-Class Allogeneic Cell Vaccine Against Cancer,” which aims to use 3D cell culture to develop a novel cell immunotherapy for colorectal cancer. Funding was provided by the Eurostars fund, a support mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises under […]

January 20, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Jan 2023

Netherlands Cancer Institute to use Proscia platform

Proscia, a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has announced that the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), one of the top 10 comprehensive cancer centers in Europe, will deploy its Concentriq Dx platform. NKI is transitioning to Proscia’s Concentriq Dx to expand its digital pathology practice, so its pathologists can deliver personalized diagnoses that better […]

January 19, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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