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Startup Scout 2 Nov 2018

This Biotech Uses Metal Alloys to Reshape Your Bones

We venture up to the North European climes of Finland this week. In the city of Espoo, Synoste is developing bone lengthening devices made of smart malleable materials. Mission: To…

November 2, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 29 Oct 2018

Tree Bark Could be a Sustainable Source of Adhesives and Sugars

Researchers at the Technical Research Centre of Finland are making it easier to process spare tree bark into useful resins and sugars. In Finland, three million tonnes of bark is…

October 29, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 22 Feb 2018

Bacteria-Killing Viruses Could Stop You From Getting Food Poisoning

A group of Finnish scientists has demonstrated that phage could be used to prevent food poisoning by killing dangerous foodborne pathogens like Yersinia enterocolitica. Researchers at the University of Helsinki believe…

February 22, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 22 Nov 2017

Finnish Scientists Find Brain Cells Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer's disease is rapidly increasing in prevalence but we have no effective treatment. But, Finnish Researchers have found a new target to investigate. Researchers at the University of East Finland…

November 22, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 6 Oct 2017

British-Finnish Alliance to Bring Gene Therapy to the Masses

FIT Biotech and Avacta hope to combine their technologies to produce highly specific, best-in-class gene therapy treatments. The two companies have spotted an opportunity to bring together their technologies and…

October 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

More News! 10 Oct 2017

Update: Finnish Biotech to Raise £10M for Rare Lung Disease Drug

Update (10/10/2017): Faron Pharmaceuticals' fundraising has been

October 10, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 19 May 2017

Shining new Light on how to control Cell Circuits

Controlling genes with light is a new therapeutic avenue, and researchers from Finland are exploring how it can be used to tinker with the cell's biochemical circuitry. Their findings could…

May 19, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

Interview 13 Mar 2017

Meet the Omics Entrepreneur who also Co-Founded EMBL

If you haven’t heard of Kai Simons, his mile-long list of accomplishments will make you wonder why. He told us some of what he learned along the way. Our Head…

March 13, 2017 - 7 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 4 Mar 2017

Meet the Finnish Bioartist using Yeast to Create Vanishing Photographs

Johanna Rotko creates living art with yeast to explore the perishableness of matter and how we interact with nature around us. Johanna Rotko is a visual artist and photographer based…

March 4, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 16 Dec 2016

Young Immuno-Oncology Biotechs attract Funding to Cure Metastasis

Amcure and TILT Biotherapeutics announced yesterday new financing rounds supporting the development of unique strategies to cure cancer metastasis. Amcure, in Germany, is fighting highly metastatic forms of cancer by…

December 16, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 24 Nov 2016

A Finnish Company opens a New Avenue to Alternative Protein

How do you solve a problem like the viability of small-scale biogas production? Protein feed with a side of bioplastic, according to the Technical Research Centre of Finland. This emission-reducing…

November 24, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 26 Oct 2016

Proteins can now Sing about their Anomalies to help cure Diseases

Researchers are generating melodies from proteins' structures. It could be used to understand protein folding and anomalies that contribute to disease. Protein folding is an infamously difficult phenomenon to understand…

October 26, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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