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News and Trends 17 Mar 2015

New Oncology finances its Genetic Test for Cancer Diagnosis

New Oncology completed a financing round to prepare the market launch of NEOliquid, a non-invasive blood test that identifies therapeutically actionable genome alterations in the circulating free tumor DNA (ctDNA) of cancer patients. New Oncology’s pan-cancer diagnostic platform NEOplus reliably detects actionable genome alterations from one single patient sample with short turn-around times. In contrast to […]

March 17, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Mar 2015

MISSION Appoints Paul Wallace as Chief Business Officer

Mission Therapeutics, a company focused on the discovery and development of modulators of the deubiquitylating (DUB) enzyme family for the treatment of cancer and other diseases, appointed Paul Wallace as Chief Business Officer. The appointment highlights the scope and productivity of Mission’s drug discovery platform. Dr. Wallace joins Mission to formulate future business strategy at […]

March 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Mar 2015

Against Being Against GMOs: The Golden Rice Story

At the Zurich Life Science Day, I had the pleasure of hearing the keynote speaker, Professor Ingo Potrykus, Professor Emeritus of Plant Sciences at the Institute of Plant Sciences at ETH Zurich and creator of Golden Rice (GR). At 82 years old, he has the liveliness of someone much younger than him. While initially the […]

March 16, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 14 Mar 2015

Promising Collaboration Between Evotec and Second Genome

Evotec AG and Second Genome decided to collaborate in small molecule-based discovery and development activities for the treatment of microbiome-mediated diseases. The collaboration comprises the identification and optimisation of novel compounds as well as licence agreements for already existing assets developed by Evotec. Second Genome’s unique approach to identify and modulate microbiome-mediated pathways will be […]

March 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 14 Mar 2015

Samsung Bioepis Submits a Biosimilar Candidate, to the European Medicines Agency

Samsung Bioepis announced their submission to the to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for SB2, its Remicade (Infliximab) biosimilar candidate. This is the second biosimilar candidate Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) that Samsung Bioepis has submitted to the EMA. The MAA is based on results from an extensive head-to-head preclinical data package comparing SB2 to the originator, a […]

March 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 Mar 2015

Get prepared: Pi day is coming!

Pi day, the unofficial annual holiday commemorating the math constant π, has this year a special significance. It is celebrated on March 14th, or 3/14 in the month/day date format, as the three first numbers of the constant. Furthermore, a sequential time will also happen tomorrow, on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53, when the clock will display […]

March 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 Mar 2015

Orgenesis acquires MaSTherCell

Orgenesis acquired MaSTherCell, an emerging pioneer in the industrialization of cell-based therapeutics based in Gosselies, Belgium, as part of the American company’s plan to increase its global presence and capabilities. The American and the Belgian companies have already been working jointly since last year to scale manufacturing of Orgenesis’ insulin-producing liver cells to fight diabetes. […]

March 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Mar 2015

Alderley Park Life Science Campus, on the go

Manchester Science Partnerships (MSP) and Bruntwood have revealed plans for the first phase of development at their flagship 162-hectare life science campus at Alderley Park, Cheshire. The plans centered on the Mereside science campus and were revealed at MIPIM – the annual international property conference held in Cannes, France. The session, titled ‘Translating Science into […]

March 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Mar 2015

Bioluminescent Bacteria and Algae, the Future Lighting

The University of Sevilla has patented a method for culturing the bacteria Vibrio fischeri and the algae Pyrocystus fusiformis in order to configure bioluminescent devices that emit light without electricity consumption, with applications in environmental lighting and signaling. Bioluminescence is a widespread phenomenon at all biological levels (bacteria, fungi, worms, insects, etc.). It consists of […]

March 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 12 Mar 2015

Sanofi and its Succesful Pivot from Chemistry to Biotechnology [BIO-Spring 2015]

Sanofi is France’s largest pharma company and the 3rd biggest in the World. The VIP guest of BIO-Europe Spring was Serge Weinberg, Chairman and temporary CEO of Sanofi. You might have been expecting a boring corporate conference with a strong Frenchy-accent English but actually, the talk was extremely clear and interesting. Weinberg went through Sanofi’s innovation strategy as […]

March 12, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 11 Mar 2015

First Treatment Approved under Early Access to Medicine Scheme (EAMS)

Today, it has been accepted! The first drug approved through the Early Access to Medicine Scheme (EAMS), named pembrolizumab, is an immunotherapy treatment for advanced melanoma. The treatment has been developed by Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, with early development work carried out using MRC Technology’s antibody humanization expertise. EAMS is […]

March 11, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 11 Mar 2015

Vitic database, the new must-have tool

The latest version of the Vitic Intermediates database, chemical database and information management system, has been released by Lhasa Limited, a leading global supplier of knowledge based software and associated databases. Initiated in 2006, Vitic Intermediates is a cross industry data sharing consortium created and co-ordinated by Lhasa Limited, through the Vitic Nexus platform, supported by […]

March 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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New Oncology finances its Genetic Test for Cancer Diagnosis

MISSION Appoints Paul Wallace as Chief Business Officer

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Promising Collaboration Between Evotec and Second Genome

Samsung Bioepis Submits a Biosimilar Candidate, to the European Medicines Agency

Get prepared: Pi day is coming!

Orgenesis acquires MaSTherCell

Alderley Park Life Science Campus, on the go

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