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News and Trends 30 Oct 2015

Grifols takes a nice €100M slice for Alzheimer’s from EU €315 Billion Investment Offensive

A huge European action for the next three following years is the European Fund for Strategic Investments (aka the Juncker plan). This consists of a €315 billion Investment Plan to “get Europe growing and more people back to work” (as written on Europa’s website). The Barcelonan Grifols (Spain) is one of the first companies to receive its […]

October 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 30 Oct 2015

Purple GMO Tomatoes are Growing Medicines in the UK

Meet the purple tomatoes which produce as much Revervesterol in a single fruit as 50 bottles of wine, and as much anti-breast cancer chemical as 2.5Kg of Tofu! The John Innes Centre in Norwich (East England) have engineered these tomato plants to produce larger amounts of these health-related compounds. With funding from the Biotechnology and […]

October 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Sanifit from Mallorca and its novel take on calcification disorders

This week we say ciao to Milan and head South-West, across the Mediterranean Sea and say hola to the the largest island in the Balearic Islands archipelago, Mallorca. This island is famous for its picturesque white beaches, brilliant weather and being the main vacation destination for the younger generations. It is also home to our […]

October 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

To beat J&J, Pfizer attempts a New Merger…Guess who’s the Target this Time?!

Mergers & acquisitions (or M&A in short) have ruled the world of Pharma for a while and the company which seems to be the most hungry this year is Pfizer! After it failed to buy AstraZeneca in May 2015 for $118Bn (woah!!), the company is still trying to become the biggest Pharma company worldwide… This time, the target is Allergan. This company […]

October 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

Naughty Novartis…US Department of Justice Fines them $390M – Again!

Being a multi-billion international Pharmaceutical giant does not protect you from the Law…and in my best American accent “Justice WILL be served” (and bang! goes the gavel). Novartis gets called out on their dodgy sales boosting techniques again down the US Federal court. Novartis has been caught out serving Pharmacists and Doctors under the table […]

October 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

Cellectis UCART Milestone: One step closer to a Universal CAR-T Therapy for Blood Cancer

Cellectis is a leader in immuno-oncology CAR-T therapies from France, which might revolutionise cancer treatments. Now, the next step in the CAR-T campaign is to step away from personalised (autologous) therapies, which are time-consuming and expensive, to instead produce an allogenic version available to all. So, what is CAR-T? You can read a more in-depth […]

October 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

ERRATUM: Celyad’s US patent on TCR-deficient allogeneic CAR-T cells

ERRATUM: I published a first article on Celyad’s new patent on last Tuesday where I made an error of judgement. Celyad’s US patent covers allogeneic CAR-T modified to reduce immunogenicity. In my previous article, I wrote that Celyad stated having obtained the first US patent on CAR-T, which is wrong. Last Tuesday, Celyad announced having […]

October 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

The NeoFood Project: A Basque Coastal Hunt for Algae which produce Essential Fatty Acids

The Neofood project from the Basque Country (Spain) is searching for novel Oceanic strains of algae in salt-marshes around the coast, specifically those that naturally produce essential fatty acids. These algae will serve as an alternative to fish oils for Omega-3 food supplements. A syndicate of Agricultural focused researchers are on the hunt for more […]

October 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome

We still haven’t fully sequenced the domestic wheat genome! Now the US Dragen chip has the answer for speedy whole-genome analysis, which The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in England will test out for UK food-security research. Dragen is a Bio-IT platform processing chip which has clinical pipelines for many areas in research, including the Microbiome, […]

October 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

The Cambridge Gene-Editing Biotech Success Story: Horizon Discovery is Doubling in Size with new HQ

Horizon Discovery is a gene-editing tools specialist with various biotech partnerships over their cell-line catalogues. A UK expansion for Horizon is now underway, with the launch of a new genomics eCommerce webshop and the expansion of their headquarters. Horizon Discovery provides personalized translational medicine products and services, such as bespoke cell-lines for drug discovery and […]

October 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

Fighting Infection with a Pioneering Arsenal of Med-Tech Inventions from the UK

Bath, in South West England, has a lot more besides its historic beauty…The Jenkins Chemistry lab at the University of Bath has a fair few innovative solutions to the problem of infectious disease detection. Their latest design is a burns dressing which glows when a pathogenic biofilm is detected (as part of the Bacteriosafe Project) […]

October 28, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 27 Oct 2015

Belgian Biotech Seed Investment to Produce Affordable Vaccines for Developing Countries

The Belgian biomanufacturing company Univercells and the Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda have signed a strategic partnership agreement. Univercells has closed a €3M equity investment with Takeda Ventures to produce affordable vaccines. Univercells provides single-use cost-efficient bioprocess solutions to lead the next generation in biomanufacturing. Under the terms of the agreement, the two biotechs will launch a […]

October 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Grifols takes a nice €100M slice for Alzheimer’s from EU €315 Billion Investment Offensive

Purple GMO Tomatoes are Growing Medicines in the UK

Biotech of the week: Sanifit from Mallorca and its novel take on calcification disorders

To beat J&J, Pfizer attempts a New Merger…Guess who’s the Target this Time?!

Naughty Novartis…US Department of Justice Fines them $390M – Again!

Cellectis UCART Milestone: One step closer to a Universal CAR-T Therapy for Blood Cancer

ERRATUM: Celyad’s US patent on TCR-deficient allogeneic CAR-T cells

The NeoFood Project: A Basque Coastal Hunt for Algae which produce Essential Fatty Acids

Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome

The Cambridge Gene-Editing Biotech Success Story: Horizon Discovery is Doubling in Size with new HQ

Fighting Infection with a Pioneering Arsenal of Med-Tech Inventions from the UK

Belgian Biotech Seed Investment to Produce Affordable Vaccines for Developing Countries

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