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News and Trends 17 Jan 2018

Here’s Your New Year’s Resolution: Get Your Immune System in Shape

If you’re having trouble deciding on a New Year’s resolution, why not train up your immune system? Scientists believe this could help prevent the side effects of chemotherapy. Researchers at Technische Universitaet Dresden believe that by ‘training’ the immune system, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy could be spared some of the trauma. The study, published in Cell, […]

January 17, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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In Depth 17 Jan 2018

An Update on What’s New in the French Biotech Industry

Here’s a closer look at the French biotech ecosystem in 2017, which remains one the leading industries in Europe along with Germany and the UK. France’s biotech ecosystem is relatively dynamic and well-developed. Young companies harboring exciting technology are encouraged into the industry by support from Bpifrance, i-LAB, and iBionext. Once a company gets off the ground, France is […]

January 17, 2018 - 4 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Oxford Firm Recruits Two Partners to Build Drug Discovery AI

e-Therapeutics has teamed up with AI experts Intellegens and Biorelate to improve its technology for computer-based drug discovery. Based in Oxford, e-Therapeutics has the mission of reducing the time and money it costs to develop new drugs with the help of artificial intelligence. Its platform can explore large amounts of public and private databases to […]

January 16, 2018 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

This French Biotech’s Medical Device Protects Against Antibiotic Resistance

Da Volterra has achieved impressive early results with its antibiotic resistance-busting medical device by successfully protecting the diversity of the microbiome. French biotech Da Volterra is developing products to fight the rapidly rising rates of antibiotic resistance. During a Phase I study, the company’s medical device, DAV132, was used with the antibiotic, moxifloxacin, and successfully protected the intestinal […]

January 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Dutch Biotech Joins International Effort to Eradicate Polio

Batavia Biosciences joins an international consortium to develop and manufacture a safer type of polio vaccine. Their ultimate goal is to eradicate the disease. Based in Leiden, the Netherlands, Batavia Biosciences specializes in the development and production of viruses and proteins. Its expertise has attracted an international consortium to recruit Batavia in their effort to […]

January 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Two Proteins in the Brain Could Protect Against and Repair the Damage Caused by Parkinson’s

Researchers have found two proteins that could be used to treat Parkinson’s disease patients by exerting neuroprotective and regenerative effects. Scientists at the University of the Basque Country have found that two neurotrophic factors work in synergy to benefit patients with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. The findings, based on research carried out across a number of studies, […]

January 16, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Young Oxford Biotech Raises €22.5M to Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine

Vaccitech has closed a Series A fundraising that will support clinical trials with its vaccine technology against influenza and prostate cancer. Spun out from Oxford University in 2016, Vaccitech has now closed its Series A fundraising round. Amounting to a total of £20M (€22.5M), the round was co-led by GV, Oxford Sciences Innovation and Sequoia China, and joined […]

January 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 15 Jan 2018

British Biotech’s Technology is Taken by Pharma to Fight Alzheimer’s

Having developed multispecific antibodies with F-star, Denali Therapeutics has joined forces with Takeda Pharmaceuticals to commercialize Alzheimer’s drugs using the technology. F-star’s bispecific antibody technology has received validation in the form of two pharma companies using it for the development of new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. San Francisco-based Denali Therapeutics and Japanese company Takeda will collaborate on […]

January 15, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 15 Jan 2018

The FDA Gives AstraZeneca’s Breast Cancer Drug the Go-Ahead

The UK big pharma company’s Lynparza will be for women with advanced breast cancer that is specifically caused by mutations in the BRCA gene. Global pharma giant AstraZeneca focuses on the development of drugs for cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The company, which is working on a number of small molecules and biologics for a […]

January 15, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 15 Jan 2018

This is Why You Should Avoid Eating too Much Junk Food

Following last week’s article about the importance of eating plenty of fruit and vegetables, German researchers have unearthed another link between junk food and diabetes and heart disease. Researchers from the University of Bonn, Germany, have found that an unhealthy diet can cause the immune system to act as if it is responding to bacterial […]

January 15, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 13 Jan 2018

Mars Astronauts Might Wear Spacesuits Made of Fungi

A team of biodesigners is getting us ready to live on Mars by creating the clothes that future Martians will use using fungi to create the materials. Science fiction has been preparing us for the colonization of Mars for over a century. Many see the planet as an alternative home for when we destroy or overcrowd […]

January 13, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 12 Jan 2018

This Collaboration Will Develop a New Epilepsy Gene Therapy for In-Need Patients

CombiGene and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult have struck a deal that will move the biotech’s epilepsy therapy towards the clinic. Swedish biotech CombiGene has combined neuroscience and advances in gene delivery to pioneer and new therapy for epilepsy that has brought down the number of seizures in preclinical studies. The company has joined forces […]

January 12, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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