Startup Scout 8 Jun 2018 This Israeli Biotech Engineers Tobacco Plants to Make Collagen This week we’re in Ness Ziona, Israel, visiting CollPlant, a biotech that engineers tobacco plants to produce collagen for a variety of uses, including 3D printing and artificial tendons. Mission: CollPlant engineers tobacco plants to express five human genes, which enables the plants to produce recombinant human collagen. The material can be used in different […] June 8, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 1 Jun 2018 This Dutch Biotech Gets Inspiration From Snake Venom to Restore Blood Clotting This week we’re in Leiden, the Netherlands, visiting VarmX. The biotech develops therapeutic proteins based on a peptide found in snake venom to restore blood clotting in patients with acute bleeding. Mission: Founded in 2016 as a spin-out from the University of Leiden, VarmX aims to restore blood clotting in patients with acute, internal bleeding after taking […] June 1, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 18 May 2018 This French Biotech Targets Retinal Cells to Treat Blindness Today, we’re in Paris, visiting SparingVision, a biotech trying to combat blindness using a protein that slows down the degeneration of cone cells in the retina. Mission: SparingVision uses a naturally occurring protein called rod-derived cone-viability factor, which binds to a transmembrane peptide on cone photoreceptor cells in the retina and allows more glucose to enter […] May 18, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 11 May 2018 This Oxford Biotech is Using DNA to Find New Peptide Drugs Today, we’re in Oxford, UK, visiting Orbit Discovery. The biotech develops peptide drugs for chronic diseases using DNA to tag potential therapeutic proteins. Mission: Orbit Discovery develops peptide drugs for a range of conditions including metabolic, autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases using beads to connect peptides to the DNA that encodes them and see how well the peptides […] May 11, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 27 Apr 2018 This Portuguese Biotech is Developing a Faster Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Today, we’re in Matosinhos, Portugal, visiting FASTinov, a biotech that is developing an antimicrobial susceptibility test that are faster than standard assays. The technology could help battle antibiotic resistance by identifying appropriate treatments. Mission: Founded in 2013, FASTinov is developing a new type of test for antimicrobial susceptibility that can help combat the global health problem of antibiotic […] April 27, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 13 Apr 2018 This Israeli Biotech Targets Protein Translation to Fight Disease Today, we’re taking a look at Anima Biotech, an Israeli company that is developing a new class of drugs that target protein translation to combat a range of diseases, including lung fibrosis, cancer, and Huntington’s disease. Mission: Since 2010, Anima Biotech has been targeting disease-causing proteins with a new class of drugs that control protein translation. […] April 13, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 6 Apr 2018 Spanish Biotech Uses Microbes to Make Biofuels, Food and Detergents Today, we’re in Granada, Spain, to visit Neol Bio. The biotech recycles waste to produce oils for biofuels, nutritional supplements and cleaning detergents by culturing microorganisms with waste. Mission: Neol Bio develops sustainable ways of producing oils for a wide variety of applications, from food supplements to cleaning detergents and bioenergy. The company uses high-throughput screening to […] April 6, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 30 Mar 2018 This French Biotech Detects Microbes With a “Molecular Hook” Today we are in the sunny Marseille, on the South coast of France, visiting Click4Tag, a biotech developing a molecular hook to attach to and detect microbial membranes. Its unusual principle has both environmental and medical applications. Mission: Founded in 2014, Click4Tag is developing a unique technology to detect microorganisms. The company introduces a “molecular hook” into […] March 30, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 16 Mar 2018 This Belgian Biotech Could Speed Up Diagnoses for Neurodegenerative Diseases Today we’re in Ghent, Belgium, home to several successful biotechs, including Ablynx, to visit ADx Neurosciences. The biotech specializes in biomarker assays for the detection of neurodegenerative diseases. Mission: Founded in 2011, ADx Neurosciences focuses on the development of antibodies to detect biomarkers in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative conditions from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to traumatic brain injury. The anitbodies […] March 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 9 Mar 2018 This Portugese Biotech is Developing a Vaccine for Life-Threatening Multibacterial Infections This week, we’re in Cantanhede, a small city near the coast in Portugal, to visit Immunethep. The company is developing immunotherapies against life-threatening multibacterial infections using a virulence mechanism common to different types of bacteria. Mission: Founded in 2014, Immunethep is a spin-off from the University of Porto that discovered a novel virulence mechanism by which bacteria suppress the […] March 9, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 2 Mar 2018 This Spanish Biotech Is Developing Stem-Cell Targeted Leukemia Treatments This week, we’re in Barcelona, Spain, to visit Leukos Biotech, whose goal is to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools for Leukaemia. Mission: Founded in 2015 as a spin-off from the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC), Leukos Biotech has raised €3.5M in funding and has identified a new therapeutic target against leukemic stem cells in acute […] March 2, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Startup Scout 9 Feb 2018 This Polish Biotech Uses AI to Help Others Speed Up Precision Medicine Development Following on from BioNext’s software last week, we’re in Kraków to visit Ardigen. This biotech develops technology to help us decipher the huge amount of data generated by research. Mission: Ardigen came to our attention when it finished 2nd place in the prestigious NCI-CPTAC DREAM-Proteogenomics Challenge – a competition with more than 500 competitors. Universities and research institutes […] February 9, 2018 - 1 minutemin - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email