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News and Trends 8 Jun 2015

Review: The Emerging Field of Bioluminescence

Thanks to the synthetic biology revolution, bioluminescence is now moving from a curious natural trait to an interesting research field that could soon arrive to the market. Bioluminescence’s impulsors aim at replacing electric lighting. Sounds good, but which are the most advanced projects right now? Will bioluminescence really have an impact on the lighting market and […]

June 8, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 3 Jun 2015

Keregen: Winner of the world’s largest Biotech Start-up Accelerator!

OneStart 2015, the world’s largest life sciences and health care startup accelerator program has just rewarded Keregen from the UK with €137.8K (£100K) and Ligadon with €134.6K ($150K) for respectively winning OneStart Europe and OneStart Americas. So, who is this promising European upcomer? Keregen, based in London, develops first-in-class medicines for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative […]

June 3, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexandre Lowrey

News and Trends 2 Jun 2015

Will Glowee Replace Electric Lighting with Bioluminescent Bacteria?

What if we could use less electricity to light today’s civilizations? Glowee is a French start-up willing to take on this challenge by using genetically modified bacteria to produce light. I had the chance to talk with the company’s CEO Sandra Rey and will give you my thoughts. It all started from a student project in a design college. Back […]

June 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 27 May 2015

Berlin’s biotech ecosystem, a fast-growing European hotspot

The Bionnale 2015, a major networking event for biotech in Berlin, is taking place today. Talks about Berlin’s cluster gave me a good insight on what’s happening here. Don’t expect Berlin to be a groundbreaking place like Boston or San Diego. The German capital has more conventional assets, but they’re definitely building a solid ecosystem. With more […]

May 27, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 25 May 2015

Invectys focuses on Telomers to develop a Universal Cancer Vaccine

French startup Invectys believes to have found the solution to cancer: one vaccine to cure them all! By targeting telomerase, this new immunotherapy could theoretically fight 95 % of all human cancers. When a cell divides, a small piece of DNA, called telomere, is lost at both ends of each chromosome. Telomerase adds these pieces of DNA again at the end of […]

May 25, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 7 May 2015

Versantis, using liposomes technology to detoxify the body

What happens when your liver stops working? The toxins your body continuously produces will no longer be eliminated, transforming your own body in a remarkable poison factory. This problem, in reality, is quite common. Liver diseases affect more than 30 million Europeans, and kill more people than both diabetes and road accidents combined! Versantis, a Swiss based biotech […]

May 7, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 6 May 2015

Global Bioenergies produced its First batch of Isobutene in a record time

Global Bioenergies delivered the first batch of isobutene from renewable resources to its partner Arkema six months ahead of the projected schedule. Thanks to the cooperation of ARD’s, an affiliate of the French sugar producer Cristal Union, and Global Bioenergies’ teams, the scaling up of the process in the industrial pilot has been achieved in […]

May 6, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 5 May 2015

Natural Killer therapies for Cancer: a Fast-Evolving field

Natural killers are an emerging approach to fight inflammatory diseases and cancer. These immune actors, that specifically regulate the activity of the immune system, are attracting the attention of several small startups and more than a few big Pharmas. The immune system includes a set of body defenses, that fight foreign forms. But external bodies aren’t […]

May 5, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 30 Apr 2015

Gene-editing Technology war continues while CRISPR Therapeutics raised €79.5M

As the CRISPR-Cas9 war still goes on, CRISPR Therapeutics closed a Series A and B financing round with €79.5M. The oversubscribed financing rounds were led by strategic investors, GlaxoSmithKline‘s SR One and Celgene Corporation, respectively and also included other actors already known by the company, such as Versant Ventures, along with new ones namely New […]

April 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 23 Apr 2015

Lab equipment (finally) affordable?

Whether you are an industry giant, university laboratory or startup company, there is no way around it! Obviously your equipment budget represents a necessity… Your wallet, however, suffers the most from these expensive supplies. Imagine being able to buy good and reliable supplies at prices well below market standards. Well, this dream has now become […]

April 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexandre Lowrey

News and Trends 27 Jan 2015

Italian Genenta Science’s Original Strategy to Treat Cancer

Tumor microenvironment, including tumor-associated macrophages, plays a key role in controlling tumor progression and response to therapies. It stimulates tumor growth, supports angiogenesis and tissue remodeling, as well as neutralizes host immunity. Genenta Science is using this mechanism, which is certainly a promising area of cancer biology for the identification of new therapeutic targets. In […]

January 27, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 15 Dec 2014

Will there be a New Merck-Serono?

GeNeuro SA has signed a unique partnership with Servier. The French pharmaceutical giant have bought an option for €38M on the marketing rights outside the United States and Japan for a treatment against multiple sclerosis. Could GeNeuro become the next Merck-Serono? This amount will allow the Swiss company to continue the clinical development of this molecule. […]

December 15, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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