News and Trends 16 Feb 2022 Startup Bags €50M Series A to Smash Gene Therapy Vector Limits After closing Spain’s largest biopharma Series A round, the company SpliceBio has set its foundations in the gene therapy field and joins the push to deliver bigger therapeutic genes into patients. SpliceBio was founded in 2012 to tinker with a type of protein called inteins, which can stick peptides together to form new proteins. The […] February 16, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 15 Feb 2022 Next-Gen Covid-19 Vaccines and Drugs Crowd into Late-Stage Trials Despite the widespread rollout of vaccines over 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic remains a threat to healthcare systems worldwide. Numerous treatments and vaccines are hitting the late-stage pipeline, which could greatly expand the anti-Covid-19 arsenal. Two years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world and left economic disruption, healthcare crises, and widespread lockdowns in its wake. […] February 15, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 10 Feb 2022 Global Team-up Cuts Genomics Costs to Fight Salmonella Infections An international academic team has made strides in carrying out genome sequencing faster and more cheaply in low- and middle- income nations. This could improve the control of potentially lethal salmonella infections and propel research into vaccines. As the price of DNA sequencing continues to fall, genomics and bioinformatics firms are drawing ever more attention […] February 10, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 8 Feb 2022 Reforms of EU Clinical Trial Regulations Bring Cautious Optimism The EU’s clinical trial regulations received a major overhaul at the end of January 2022 to make trials easier to run across EU member states. It may bring some short-term chaos, industry insiders say, but down the road it is likely to pay off. At the start of February, the EU’s new Clinical Trials Regulation […] February 8, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 3 Feb 2022 The Top European Biotech Investments in January 2022 Viral infection treatments, cell therapy, and artificial intelligence led biotech investments in January 2022 as the European sector took a collective breather from December’s funding frenzy. European biotech investments started 2022 at a modest level compared to the huge cash flow seen in November and December 2021. While December 2021 saw almost €1.6B money raised, […] February 3, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 1 Feb 2022 Ethris Raises €23M to Make Inhaled Respiratory Therapies from mRNA Thanks to Covid-19 vaccines, messenger RNA (mRNA) technology has reached the mainstream. With a €23.4M Series B round, the German firm Ethris is riding the mRNA buzz by developing inhalable mRNA therapies for respiratory diseases. As Covid-19 mRNA vaccines entered the market for the first time in 2020, the wide potential of mRNA technology became […] February 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 1 Feb 2022 Ribbon Biolabs Pushes DNA Synthesis Length Limits with €18M Series A The Viennese biotech startup Ribbon Biolabs has raised an €18M Series A round to reduce the costs of synthesizing long DNA molecules, which could accelerate research into synthetic biology and the storage of data as DNA. Supported by lead investor Hadean Ventures, Ribbon Biolabs’ fundraising round is part and parcel of a continuing investor interest […] February 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Dan Samorodnitsky Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 31 Jan 2022 Nature’s Painters: Making Sustainable Colors with Microbes The production of textile dyes and food colorants can have a big environmental footprint. Biotech startups are rising to the challenge by engineering bacteria, fungi, and algae to sustainably produce natural colors. Eight years ago, University of Cambridge researcher Jim Ajioka was in Nepal helping to produce a biosensor to detect arsenic in drinking water […] January 31, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Helen Albert Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 28 Jan 2022 AI Hot in Healthcare Despite IBM’s Watson Health Pullout Earlier this week, the tech giant IBM sold off chunks of its once-promising artificial intelligence (AI)-guided division Watson Health. Despite this setback, European firms see a bright future for the use of AI in healthcare. The tech giant IBM hit the headlines this week when it sold off parts of Watson Health — a division […] January 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 26 Jan 2022 Norwegian Biotech Put on the Map with €18M Oncology Round The immuno-oncology startup Cytovation has raised €17.7M (NOK 180M) in one of Norway’s biggest Series A rounds in life sciences. Historically, Norway’s biotech scene has not seen the kind of venture capital funding characteristic of health and biotech in the UK and US. However, Norwegian biotech is growing and has seen more successes than many […] January 26, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Dan Samorodnitsky Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 26 Jan 2022 Bioinformatics Startups in Focus as SeqOne Genomics Bags €20M The French company SeqOne Genomics has raised €20M in a Series A round as growing investments reach startups delivering the next generation of genomics and bioinformatics. The cost of sequencing the human genome has plummeted over the decades to less than €900 ($1,000) today. Partly thanks to advances in cloud computing, innovations are flourishing in […] January 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Sponsored by Merck 26 Jan 2022 Top Reasons to Outsource Your Early Clinical Pipeline to a CDMO Biotech firms partner with contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) to leverage their expertise in process development, optimization, and scale-up. In this article, we share an exclusive sneak-peek into a recent survey, which explores the main reasons why biotech companies collaborate with CDMOs at different stages of drug development. To make a new drug candidate […] January 26, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Sudha Sundaram Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email