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News and Trends 3 Nov 2022

Virax Biolabs introduces flu, Covid-19 and RSV rapid test kits

Rapid test kits that can accurately identify infections related to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza and Covid-19 can deliver results in 15 minutes. UK-based Virax Biolabs, a biotech company focused on the prevention, detection and diagnosis of viral diseases announced today (November 3) the distribution of a tripe virus antigen rapid test kit has been […]

November 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 2 Nov 2022

CV6 Therapeutics raises $9.2M to test cancer drug

CV6 Therapeutics has secured $9.2m to progress its lead oncology asset, CV6-168, into a first-in-human phase 1a clinical trial and perform further scientific development work. CV6 Therapeutics is a drug development biotechnology company specializing in innovative small molecule therapeutics for cancer and inflammatory diseases. Investors participating in the financing include QUBIS, the commercialization arm of […]

November 2, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Nov 2022

Pancreatic cancer could be diagnosed years earlier

Pancreatic cancer could be identified in patients up to three years earlier than current diagnoses, new research from the U.K. shows. Weight loss and increasing blood glucose levels are early indicators of pancreatic cancer and could lead to a more timely diagnosis, helping to improve survival rates. In the largest study of its kind, researchers […]

November 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 31 Oct 2022

First patient enrolled and dosed on expansion phase of cancer treatment trial

The first patient in an expansion phase of a trial looking at cancer drug Modi-1 has been enrolled and dosed. Scancell Holdings plc, the developer of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease made the announcement today (October 31). The expansion phase is part of the monotherapy arms of the phase 1 clinical […]

October 31, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 31 Oct 2022

PhoreMost and Arvinas to collaborate on drug discovery against multiple therapeutic targets

U.K. biopharma company PhoreMost Ltd. has entered into a multi-target collaboration with Arvinas, a company active in targeted protein degradation (TPD). Under the terms of the agreement, PhoreMost will receive research funding and will be eligible for pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial milestones. PhoreMost will deploy its phenotypic screening platform, SITESEEKER, toward multiple high-value therapeutic targets. […]

October 31, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 31 Oct 2022

Reprogramming immune cells can fight melanoma

A new way of reprogramming immune cells to shrink or kill off cancer cells has been shown to work in the otherwise hard-to-treat skin cancer, melanoma. The University of Bristol, in the U.K. led the discovery, which has been published in Advanced Science. It demonstrates a new way to clear early stage pre-cancerous and even […]

October 31, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 28 Oct 2022

‘Dark matter’ creates a whole new level of cancer gene activity in tumors, researchers say

A whole new level of control of cancer gene activity within tumors, has been described by researchers as ‘dark matter’. It was recently discovered and published in two major studies at the same time in Nature that cancers can evolve to become more aggressive without relying on DNA mutations. Testing cancers for just the DNA […]

October 28, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Oct 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 20: BioWin, eTherapeutics, CMT Research Foundation

This week, we have three interviews, and four guests. We chatted with Keith Fargo, chief scientific officer at the CMT Research Foundation; François Colery, head of the Talent Now initiative and Sylvie Ponchaut, managing director, from BioWin; and e-therapeutics’ CEO, Ali Mortazavi. We also have our weekly contribution from global commercial real estate services company […]

October 28, 2022

News and Trends 26 Oct 2022

Scancell signs agreement with Genmab

Scancell Holdings plc, the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease, has signed a licensing agreement with Genmab, an international biotechnology company, to develop and commercialize a Scancell investigational anti-glycan monoclonal antibody into novel therapeutic products. Genmab has been granted the exclusive right to develop and commercialize the Scancell antibody […]

October 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Oct 2022

New UK spinout VacV Biotherapeutics emerges from stealth to work on cancer immunotherapies

VacV Biotherapeutics, a cancer immunotherapy company developing innovative viral-based therapies, emerged from stealth mode today to advance its pipeline of pre-clinical assets with best-in-class potential, towards the clinic. VacV Biotherapeutics has spun out of Barts Cancer Institute and Queen Mary University of London following 20 years of research by immunotherapy experts Yaohe Wang, Nicholas Lemoine, […]

October 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Opinion 25 Oct 2022

Precision medicine research must lose its Eurocentricity

Precision medicine research relies on genetic testing at scale, but how do we reach more diverse patient populations and collect nationally representative samples? Patrick Short, CEO and co-founder of Sano Genetics, and Natasha Ratcliffe, director of community engagement and partnerships at Couch Health, explain how Eurocentricity is holding back genetics, and what can be done. […]

October 25, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By External Contributor

Opinion 24 Oct 2022

Hiding in plain sight: how to solve bioscience’s software problem

Guy Levy-Yurista, CEO of the experiment platform developer Synthace, gives his take on what’s missing in increasingly software-dependent life sciences labs: a holistic mindset for improving experimental methods. There’s a major problem holding back progress in biotech, and more widely in the life sciences. It’s not an obvious one, but based on the conversations I […]

October 24, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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Virax Biolabs introduces flu, Covid-19 and RSV rapid test kits

CV6 Therapeutics raises $9.2M to test cancer drug

Pancreatic cancer could be diagnosed years earlier

First patient enrolled and dosed on expansion phase of cancer treatment trial

PhoreMost and Arvinas to collaborate on drug discovery against multiple therapeutic targets

Reprogramming immune cells can fight melanoma

‘Dark matter’ creates a whole new level of cancer gene activity in tumors, researchers say

Beyond Biotech podcast 20: BioWin, eTherapeutics, CMT Research Foundation

Scancell signs agreement with Genmab

New UK spinout VacV Biotherapeutics emerges from stealth to work on cancer immunotherapies

Precision medicine research must lose its Eurocentricity

Hiding in plain sight: how to solve bioscience’s software problem

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