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News and Trends 4 Jan 2018

Swedish Biotech Pockets $6M as its Cancer Antibody Heads for the Clinic

Alligator Bioscience will receive milestone payments from its partner, Janssen, following the announcement of a combination trial using its cancer antibody. Alligator develops antibodies to fight cancer, and today it has announced that it will receive $6M (€5M) in milestone payments from Janssen. This was triggered by the announcement of a combination trial for its candidate, ADC-1013, which […]

January 4, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

In Depth 4 Jan 2018

A Crash Course in the Basics of Finance in Biotechnology

Getting your head around intricate biotech research and technology can be difficult enough, without having to contend with financial figures and jargon. With news coming out thick and fast, you might be switching from the first market approval of a CAR-T therapy to the latest strategy to protect crops from pests to a new anti-Parkinson’s […]

January 4, 2018 - 5 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 3 Jan 2018

Swiss Biotech Gets $339M to Boost the Development of Drug Addiction Therapies

Addex Therapeutics, which develops drugs for neurological disorders, has signed an agreement with Indivior to propel its drug addiction pipeline forward. Addex, a top biotech from Geneva, develops small molecules for the treatment of neurological disorders. Today, the company has announced that a collaboration worth up to $339M (€282M) has been signed with Indivior that will focus on progressing […]

January 3, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 3 Jan 2018

What Are Clinical Trials and Why Do We Do Them?

If you’ve read any of our articles, you’ll have no doubt heard us banging on about clinical trials, Phase I, Phase II, market approval… But what does this all mean? We’ve put together a quick guide to help you through these crucial stages of drug development. To reach a clinical trial, the drug will have […]

January 3, 2018 - 6 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

In Depth 2 Jan 2018

The Labiotech Dictionary of Important Biotech Terms

Biotech is constantly changing, which means that new key terms are popping up all the time. We’ve put together The Labiotech Dictionary of Important Biotech Terms to bring you up to speed. New and exciting findings come thick and fast in the biotech industry, making it hard to keep up with this ever-changing field. Whether […]

January 2, 2018 - 14 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

Best in Biotech 28 Dec 2017

Bored Between the Holidays? Watch these Biotech Videos!

Christmas might have passed, but we have more videos for you to watch on a dreary winter day! Here are our highlights from 2017. It’s vacation time! If you’ve worn out the holiday movies, catch up on our biotech ones. It was a busy year, and we produced a lot, thanks to our new Hangouts […]

December 28, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

Best in Biotech 27 Dec 2017

The Biggest Biotech News of 2017: What Happened This Year?

Still catching up on news? We’ve picked out the most exciting things that happened besides clinical results and finance. Here’s the biggest biotech news of 2017. We’ve been recapping the year with the most stellar biotechs, most heartening clinical successes and most disappointing failures in biotech. But what else happened this year? There’s more news […]

December 27, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

Best in Biotech 26 Dec 2017

Interviews, Reviews and Tops: Our Best Biotech Articles from 2017

We love hearing from our readers, and we listen to what they like! Here are the long reads from our best biotech articles of 2017. We gave you a list of books to read this holiday season, but do you need something lighter for the post-Christmas daze? We’ve collected our most popular long articles of […]

December 26, 2017 - 6 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 23 Dec 2017

Biota Beats: Music from the Microbiome

Bacteria and music are two completely unrelated concepts for most of us. But not for the group of artists and scientists behind Biota Beats. The iGEM synthetic biology competition gathers teams of enthusiastic students every year in Boston. But this year, it also gathered the bacteria of the participants. The team from Biota Beats asked […]

December 23, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 21 Dec 2017

Scientists Find New Immune Target to Stop Progression of Alzheimer’s

Scientists have described a new mechanism by which the immune system can drive Alzheimer’s and shown that blocking it can prevent the disease in mice. A study published yesterday in Nature details how a molecule involved in the innate immune response can promote the aggregation of amyloid-β plaques that appear in the brains of patients […]

December 21, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

More News! 21 Dec 2017

Oxford Biotech Makes a Latin American Deal for Its Antibiotic

In a deal worth up to €23.6M, Summit Therapeutics licensed the commercialization of its new antibiotic ridinilazole to Eurofarma. Oxford-based Summit Therapeutics is working on new antibiotics to fight antimicrobial resistance. Its candidate ridinilazole has attracted the attention of a Brazilian pharma, Eurofarma, and the pair has made a deal for $2.5M (€2.1M) upfront and […]

December 21, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Evelyn Warner

Inside Labiotech 21 Dec 2017

How Labiotech is Surfing on the Digital Media Revolution

Media was the first industry to be disrupted by the digital revolution, aka “The Internet”. Most of the established media platforms are still trying to figure out what to do, especially on the revenues/profits side of things. On the other hand, some of the biggest players today were founded in the last 15 years, think […]

December 21, 2017 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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Swedish Biotech Pockets $6M as its Cancer Antibody Heads for the Clinic

A Crash Course in the Basics of Finance in Biotechnology

Swiss Biotech Gets $339M to Boost the Development of Drug Addiction Therapies

What Are Clinical Trials and Why Do We Do Them?

The Labiotech Dictionary of Important Biotech Terms

Bored Between the Holidays? Watch these Biotech Videos!

The Biggest Biotech News of 2017: What Happened This Year?

Interviews, Reviews and Tops: Our Best Biotech Articles from 2017

Biota Beats: Music from the Microbiome

Scientists Find New Immune Target to Stop Progression of Alzheimer’s

Oxford Biotech Makes a Latin American Deal for Its Antibiotic

How Labiotech is Surfing on the Digital Media Revolution

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