Green Bioactives grows medicines in plant cells
Though plants may hold the key to new, effective medicines, sourcing these compounds sustainably is…
December 19, 2022 - 4 minutes
Startup Scout
Every Friday, we pick a biotech you (or we) may not have heard of until it’s time for this feature! Check out the biotech of the week here.
Biomemory is making DNA hard drives cheap and sustainable
The world is running out of ways to store the mountains of data we produce.…
December 13, 2022 - 5 minutes
Osivax is designing future-proof influenza and Covid vaccines
Viruses causing influenza and COVID-19 continually evolve to escape our vaccine protections. The French firm…
November 21, 2022 - 5 minutes
Nagi Bioscience tests drugs on worms using microfluidics
The Swiss startup Nagi Bioscience aims to speed up drug and chemical safety testing by…
November 15, 2022 - 5 minutes
ResQ Biotech is using bacteria to discover Alzheimer’s treatments
Protein misfolding underlies many incurable conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).…
November 10, 2022 - 4 minutes
Breakpoint Therapeutics sabotages DNA repair in cancer cells
The Hamburg-based Evotec spinout Breakpoint Therapeutics is working on cancer treatments that block the ability…
November 2, 2022 - 4 minutes
Persephone Biosciences studies the microbiome in baby poop
Disruption in the gut microbiome is linked to a wide range of health problems in…
October 28, 2022 - 6 minutes
Neobe Therapeutics breaks down tumor defenses with bacteria
Many cancer patients cannot benefit from cancer immunotherapy because their tumors are protected from the…
October 19, 2022 - 4 minutes
Boston Bioworks helps precision fermentation startups scale up
Precision fermentation startups have few options when looking for ways to scale up their technology.…
October 13, 2022 - 5 minutes
Baseimmune makes future-proof vaccines with AI
Baseimmune is using artificial intelligence (AI) to design vaccines that can protect against future variants…
September 29, 2022 - 6 minutes
Cartography Biosciences unearths cancer immunotherapy targets
Despite its meteoric growth in the last twenty years, cancer immunotherapy research is hamstrung by…
September 22, 2022 - 5 minutes
Adva Biotechnology is using artificial intelligence to manufacture cell therapies
The manufacturing of cell therapies is highly complex, often depending on skilled manual labor. The…
September 15, 2022 - 4 minutes
