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News and Trends 26 Mar 2020

Silence Therapeutics to Work with AstraZeneca in RNAi Deal Worth up to €3.6B

AstraZeneca is recruiting RNAi specialist Silence Therapeutics to develop treatments for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, and respiratory diseases. RNA interference, or RNAi, is a relatively new field of medicine in which therapeutic small interfering (si)RNA molecules — known as siRNA molecules — can selectively block genes and thus inhibit the production of disease-causing proteins. John Strafford, […]

March 26, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Laura Cowen

News and Trends 3 Mar 2020

Alnylam Gets Second RNAi Drug Approval from EMA

US biotech Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has succeeded in getting its second RNAi drug — for treatment of rare, inherited liver diseases — approved by the European Medicines Authority just months after achieving US FDA approval for the same drug. Alnylam are well known for being pioneers in the RNA interference space. The company achieved the first […]

March 3, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

News and Trends 3 Feb 2020

CureVac Bids to Develop First mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine

RNA vaccine developer CureVac will receive a grant of up to €8.3M from a global partnership to develop an mRNA vaccine against the new coronavirus strain from China. The agreement follows on from an existing collaboration launched in 2019, when the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, granted CureVac €30M to develop facilities that […]

February 3, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 7 Jan 2020

AstraZeneca Recruits RNA Biotech to Develop Metabolic Disease Therapies

The UK biotech MiNA Therapeutics has launched a collaboration with AstraZeneca to develop small activating RNA drugs, which could treat metabolic diseases using targets unreachable by current medications. According to the agreement, the two partners will carry out preclinical research with the aim of generating candidate drugs based on small activating RNA, or saRNA — […]

January 7, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 6 Jan 2020

BioNTech’s RNA-Boosted CAR T-Cell Therapy Shrinks Tumors in Mice

A CAR T-cell therapy amplified by RNA technology, developed by BioNTech, has shown preclinical potential for tackling solid tumors, which are hard to treat with current CAR T-cell therapies. In a study published in Science, the CAR T-cell and RNA combination therapy suppressed tumors in mice implanted with human ovarian cancer for longer than regular […]

January 6, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 30 Dec 2019

European Biotech’s Top News in 2019

With the year coming to a close, it’s time to review the most important biotech news events that took place in the European biotech industry in 2019. It has been a solid year for the European biotech industry. In 2019, venture capital funding in Europe continued to be high after a very good year in […]

December 30, 2019 - 10 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 25 Nov 2019

Novartis Enters RNA Therapeutics with Medicines Company Merger

Novartis is to acquire The Medicines Company and its late-stage RNA interference drug designed to protect against cardiovascular disease in twice-yearly shots. Novartis will pay €8.8B ($9.7B) to acquire The Medicines Company, which is based in the US and focuses on developing the RNA drug inclisiran for the treatment of cardiovascular disease and renal impairment. […]

November 25, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

More News! 11 Oct 2019

RNA Therapy Improves Vision in Untreatable Genetic Blindness

A phase I/II trial run by the Dutch company ProQR has found that its RNA therapy could significantly improve the vision of people with Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a rare genetic disease for which there is no treatment. The RNA drug, called sepofarsen, is designed to treat people with a specific mutation in a gene […]

October 11, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Interview 3 Jul 2019

Meet the First Company in the Brand New Field of Epitranscriptomics

A whole new therapeutic area is taking medical research by storm. In Cambridge, UK, the company Storm Therapeutics is leading the development of the first treatments to target a new layer of genetic information encoded in the RNA. The term ‘epitranscriptomics’ did not exist a decade ago. It was coined in 2012, when scientists started […]

July 3, 2019 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 20 May 2019

Update: British RNA Biotech Increases Series A to €34M

Update (20/05/19): Storm Therapeutics has increased its series A financing round by an additional €16M (£14M) to €34M (£30M), which the company plans to use to advance its pipeline of RNA focused drug candidates towards the clinic. Seroba Life Sciences, an Irish VC focusing on new and innovative therapies, is the key new investor. Existing […]

May 20, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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News and Trends 14 May 2019

RNAi Therapy Smashes Solid Tumors in Preclinical Tests

Developed by the UK biotech Celixir, a therapy based on silencing genes with RNA molecules in a process called RNAi has shrunk tumors by 50% in culture. Although there are lots of innovative cancer treatments in the market, such as CAR T-cell therapy for blood cancer, solid tumors remain difficult to tackle. For this reason, […]

May 14, 2019 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 28 Jan 2019

5 Real-Life Technologies Where Biotech Meets Science Fiction

From genetic engineering to synthetic food and immortality, biotech is getting surprisingly close to recreating science fiction in real life. Science fiction is always a step ahead of real-life science. The genre imagined space travel, wireless communication and virtual reality years before they became a reality. In fact, sci-fi has coined some scientific terms […]

January 28, 2019 - 6 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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Silence Therapeutics to Work with AstraZeneca in RNAi Deal Worth up to €3.6B

Alnylam Gets Second RNAi Drug Approval from EMA

CureVac Bids to Develop First mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine

AstraZeneca Recruits RNA Biotech to Develop Metabolic Disease Therapies

BioNTech’s RNA-Boosted CAR T-Cell Therapy Shrinks Tumors in Mice

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Novartis Enters RNA Therapeutics with Medicines Company Merger

RNA Therapy Improves Vision in Untreatable Genetic Blindness

Meet the First Company in the Brand New Field of Epitranscriptomics

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RNAi Therapy Smashes Solid Tumors in Preclinical Tests

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