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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 and predict from sequence data. A collaboration between a resident composer at the University of Tempere in Finland and a scientist at the Francis Crick […]

October 26, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 14 Oct 2016

This Biotech makes DNA Vaccines and Gene Therapy Possible in Lapland

After Grenoble, we fly north to Finland to meet Santa’s reindeer and earn his good graces before Christmas. After a trip to the sauna and down time with Angry Birds, whose creator hails from the country, we moseyed over to visit FIT Biotech, our biotech of the week. City: Tampere, Finland Founded: 1995 Employees: 12 + […]

October 14, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 28 Sep 2016

Little Biotechs manoeuvre to outfox Big Pharma in Immuno-Oncology

Giants like BMS and GSK have been throwing all the money they can at developing immuno-oncological treatments. In twin deals, four smaller companies are forging new paths to cure cancer with the human immune response. A pair of agreements among immuno-oncology biotechs have been made in attempts to outflank big pharma competition. In Scandinavia, Orion will fund […]

September 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 4 May 2016

How the UK is Engineering Bacteria to produce Propane for Greener Fuels

Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology are working in engineering a microbe capable of producing propane – an increasingly important fuel. Propane is an emerging fuel, used from heating to transport fuel. Therefore, producing it via synthetic biology has been a major target in the biofuel field to be Greener. This is especially because biobased propane it’s a […]

May 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 25 Apr 2016

AstraZeneca partners up with Genomics Elite for new Biobank

AstraZeneca has announced it will create a new Centre for Genomics Research in Cambridge (UK) – joining the Wellcome Sanger, a Craig Venter Biotech and a Finnish specialist Institute to do so. AstraZeneca is betting on genomics to transform drug discovery and support its R&D pipeline. The idea is to create a ‘biobank‘ with genome analysis, integrated with data from […]

April 25, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 4 Feb 2016

Finland, France and Harvard Bioprint Brains to Understand the 3D Structure

Researchers at Harvard University in collaboration with French and Finnish academic institutions have managed to 3D-bioprint a brain with the distinctive folds; An essential adaptation for our cognitive development. Harvard University worked with the CNRS at Aix Marseille Université (France), Institut Mines-Telecom INSERM (France) and the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). The team then published in Nature Physics what they discovered […]

February 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 18 Dec 2015

Biotech of the week: Forendo Pharma, Finland hasn’t only got Santa Claus!

This week we leave Copenhagen but stay in Scandinavia, pass through Norway and arrive at this week’s destination, Finland. This country is famous being the home of Santa Claus (very fitting for this time of year), it’s large number of heavy metal bands and for inventing the sauna. It is also the residence of our […]

December 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 23 Nov 2015

Making Propane From Gut-Bacteria: A UK-Finland Team Want to Say Ciao to Fracking

Five genes introduced in the bacterial genome of E.coli can modify its metabolism to synthesise propane, which can be then converted to liquified petroleum gas (LPG) as an alternative source of fuel. Escherichia coli is a facultative anaerobe of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine. An international team of researchers […]

November 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 12 Jun 2015

Polaris, a new Nordic leader in Immuno-Oncology

Immuno-oncology is a busy market to take on by yourself due to the existing fierce competition. Targovax and Oncos Therapeutics have decided to merge to earn a spot in the field. Polaris, the combined business, contemplates a private placement of around €15M to fund the freshly baked company. Finland and Norway never were this close as Oncos […]

June 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 29 Apr 2015

Giant Baupost Group bets on Biotie

Finland-based Biotie Therapies will receive an investment of more than €92M from Baupost group. However, the investment is conditional and linked to the result of the appointment of a new board member expected for the 26th of May. Seth Klarman’s billionaire Baupost group will back Biotie on its way to develop tozadenant, its lead product candidate. The […]

April 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 27 Oct 2014

Forendo Pharma Closes 12 Million Euros to Develop Novel Targeted Therapy

Forendo Pharma successfully closed €12M for further development of treatment against endometriosis. Novartis Venture Fund and MS Ventures will participate in the financing round, alongside the current major shareholders Karolinska Development, Novo A/S and Finnvera. Endometriosis is a chronic disease affecting up to 10% of the women between adolescence and menopause. There is a large unmet medical […]

October 27, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

More News! 6 Oct 2014

Flying to New York Thanks to Cooking Oils Recycled From Restaurants

Finnair, a pioneer in sustainable flying and the first airline listed in the Leadership Index of the worldwide Carbon Disclosure Project, operated its flight from Helsinki to New York on 23 September with an Airbus A330 using environmentally sustainable biofuel, coinciding with the UN Climate Summit taking place in New York on the same day. […]

October 6, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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