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News and Trends 26 Mar 2015

The Genomic Portrait of Iceland

A package of four landmark papers were published yesterday in the online edition of Nature Genetics. The research, written by a team of deCODE scientists, was built on whole-genome sequence data from more than 100,000 people from across Iceland. The four milestone studies together present the most detailed portrait of a population yet assembled using the latest technology […]

March 26, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Mar 2015

Epigenomics’ proColon, the non-invasive blood-based test for colorectal cancer

Epigenomics, the German-American cancer molecular diagnostics company, completed the enrollment for its ADMIT trial (AD herence to Minimally Invasive Testing) for Epi proColon, its non-invasive blood-based test for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. Epigenomics has successfully completed enrollment in the ADMIT clinical trial this week. Study subjects were identified as historically non-compliant to CRC screening according to […]

March 25, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Mar 2015

The Institut Pasteur and IntegraGen, allies to Strengthen High-Throughput Sequencing in Microbiology

IntegraGen and the Institut Pasteur signed an agreement for high-throughput sequencing in the field of Microbiology. IntegraGen will be responsible for the technical and operational implementation of high-throughput sequencing activities for use by the microbiology experts at the National Reference Center (NRC) at the Institut Pasteur. High-throughput sequencing will be the reference tool for analysis, […]

March 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 24 Mar 2015

Rigontec and its revolutionary RNA-based immunotherapeutics raise €4.8 Million

Rigontec has raised €4.8M in the second closing of its Series A financing round from Forbion Capital Partners, a Dutch life-sciences venture capital firm, and Sunstone Capital, a Copenhagen based venture capital investor. The new investment brings the total Series A to €14.2M to the biopharmaceutical company that is developing RNA-based immunotherapeutics for the treatment of […]

March 24, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Mar 2015

Life Sciences have a new big player: Joint Polish Investment Fund Management

Poland’s first Institutional Venture Capital Fund dedicated to Life Sciences announced today the first closing of its new venture capital fund at €38.5M. Joint Polish Investment Fund Management (JPIF), headed by Dr. Marek Orłowski, is the first institutional venture capital fund operating out of Poland that is completely dedicated to life science investments. The fund […]

March 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Mar 2015

AOP Orphan and Confluence Pharmaceuticals, together for Fragile X Syndrome

AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals and Confluence Pharmaceuticals, signed today a definitive agreement to co-develop and market Confluence’s lead asset, a product for the treatment of Fragile X Syndrome in Europe and the Middle East. Confluence is an American biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutic treatments for Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders. The company has […]

March 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Mar 2015

A Vaccine against Placental Malaria made with ExpreS2ion’s Protein Expression Technology

University of Copenhagen released a vaccine candidate against the form of malaria that strikes pregnant women, for testing in humans. The vaccine candidate contains a malaria antigen made with ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies’ protein expression technology, ExpreS2. This vaccine candidate results from many years of research done by Professor Ali Salanti and his team at the Department […]

March 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 21 Mar 2015

#BioFigures: 12 Key French Players launch New Immunotechnology Reference Center MI-mabs

WHO? MI-mAbs (“MI” for Marseille Immunopole and “mAbs” for monoclonal antibody) is a new immunotechnology center headed by Prof. Francois Romagne, located at the heart of the Marseille-Luminy Scientific and Technological Park, and designed to accelerate the development of new immunotherapy antibodies against cancer and inflammatory disease. Prize-Winner of the program “Investments for the Future” […]

March 21, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

News and Trends 20 Mar 2015

Optibrium introduces the lastest version of StarDrop

Cambridge-based Optibrium has launched of version 6.1 of its StarDrop platform to guide researchers in the design of high quality compounds in drug discovery, agrochemicals and other chemistry fields. The latest release introduces the Matsy technology, based on matched molecular series analysis, which proposes strategies for chemical substitutions to optimise compound activity. Also included is […]

March 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 20 Mar 2015

Let’s Focus on Calypso Biotech, a New Promising Startup that Concentrates on Niche Gastro-intestinal Diseases

Last week, I was in Bio Spring Europe and I met Alain Vicari, Calypso Biotech’s CEO: What is Calypso Biotech? Calypso Biotech discovers and develops antibody therapies for indications in gastro-intestinal diseases. The company tackles on niche diseases, with therapeutic antibodies against difficult targets. Calypso was founded in Geneva, in 2013, as a spin-off of […]

March 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 19 Mar 2015

The World’s First €100M Microbiome-focused Venture Fund opened in France

Microbiomics is one of the next big trends in the Biotech industry. Using bacteria present in our guts to cure people has shown more and more potential. The VC industry is now interested in this field. Seventure Partners, the second largest Biotech Venture capital company and the world’s first €100M fund focused on Microbiome is now opening in […]

March 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Mar 2015

Syngenta corn trait expansion further continues thanks the Vietnamese approval

A few days ago, Syngenta announced that the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved its Bt11 x GA21 double stack corn seed for commercial cultivation in the country. Syngenta, one of the world’s leading companies in the field of Green Biotechnology, have more than 28,000 employees in over 90 countries. The company […]

March 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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The Genomic Portrait of Iceland

Epigenomics’ proColon, the non-invasive blood-based test for colorectal cancer

The Institut Pasteur and IntegraGen, allies to Strengthen High-Throughput Sequencing in Microbiology

Rigontec and its revolutionary RNA-based immunotherapeutics raise €4.8 Million

Life Sciences have a new big player: Joint Polish Investment Fund Management

AOP Orphan and Confluence Pharmaceuticals, together for Fragile X Syndrome

A Vaccine against Placental Malaria made with ExpreS2ion’s Protein Expression Technology

#BioFigures: 12 Key French Players launch New Immunotechnology Reference Center MI-mabs

Optibrium introduces the lastest version of StarDrop

Let’s Focus on Calypso Biotech, a New Promising Startup that Concentrates on Niche Gastro-intestinal Diseases

The World’s First €100M Microbiome-focused Venture Fund opened in France

Syngenta corn trait expansion further continues thanks the Vietnamese approval

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