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News and Trends 7 Feb 2015

Fermentalg launch an Omega-3 enriched oil produced by microalgae

Six years after the creation of the company, Fermentalg, an industrial biotechnology company that specializes in the production of oils and proteins derived from microalgae, has received the European Novel Food authorization for its first product: DHA-enriched oil (Omega-3) for the vast human nutrition market. Obtaining this authorization means Fermentalg has achieved one of the priority […]

February 7, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 4 Feb 2015

And now, Moderna signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur

Moderna is the Biotech company that raised the biggest VC round ever ($450M) and which signs deals almost every week. It signed a $50M deal with Merck two weeks ago, and now signs a strategic partnership with prestigious Institut Pasteur from Paris through its new Venture Valera. Moderna is developing a proprietary mRNA therapeutics platform. Instead […]

February 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 31 Jan 2015

An Anglo-French Partnership To Cure Hepatitis B

European biotechnology company Valneva and UK company Immune Targeting Systems (ITS) announced that they have signed an exclusive worldwide commercial license agreement. This deal grants ITS the rights to research, develop and commercialize Hepatitis B vaccine candidates in combination with Valneva’s IC31 Adjuvant. Valneva’s IC31 Adjuvant is a unique synthetic adjuvant combining the immuno-stimulating properties […]

January 31, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 26 Jan 2015

Is Gecko’s Bio-inspired Glue going to revolutionize Heart Surgery and Tissue Repair?

Imagine you could use a glue to fix a hole or week zone inside your body. Sound promising? Definitely. A new generation of adhesive has been discovered. It can be used in a highly challenging environment and be activated by light. The illustration below shows you how it could be used in heart surgery. The […]

January 26, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 23 Jan 2015

A glimpse of the future: the revolution of bionic eyes

Six months after the surgery, the first Spanish with a bionic eye has gone from the total darkness to discern shapes and distances thanks to the technology developed by Second Sight Medical Products. With the MedTech field moving forward so fast, a new generation of devices meant to restore the sense of vision is about […]

January 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 21 Jan 2015

Review: The CRISPR’s Therapeutical revolution

Six years ago, a new sophisticated prokaryotic defense system, was identified in the structure complex CRISPR-Cas9 (CRISPR, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; Cas, CRISPR associated nuclease). “Resistance is acquired by incorporating short stretches of invading DNA sequences in genomic CRISPR loci ” Brouns, S. J. J., et al. (2008). The CRISPR repeat sequence has […]

January 21, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

News and Trends 20 Jan 2015

Will Microalgaes solve the Rare Earth conflict?

The extraction of rare earths is a very expensive process, having dramatic consequences for the planet (degradation, impacts on water quality, etc.). Currently, China controls 95% of the World production of these minerals widely used in the field of new technologies and electronics. The development of new methods of sustainable recycling from waste and environmentally friendly is […]

January 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 8 Jan 2015

Nanobiotix on its way to change the paradigm in cancer therapy

Nanobiotix is an oncology focused nanomedicine company developing an innovative nanoparticle technology. Their NanoXray technology comprises three products having the potential to cause a paradigm shift in cancer therapy. NanoXray products are developed to selectively increase the efficacy of radiotherapy in the tumor cell. The following video is showing how this disruptive technology is acting […]

January 8, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 6 Jan 2015

The largest VC investment in a single Biotech company has just been made

Wow, 2015 starts in a rush for the biotech industry. Moderna Therapeutics, Boston-based company led by French co-founding CEO Stephan Bancel just raised $450M (€380M) in VC investment. According to The Wall Street Journal, it is the largest VC-Investment ever made in a Biotech company. Moderna was founded only in 2011 and is an awesome company […]

January 6, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Dec 2014

Biotech’s crowdfunding: is France top of the class?

No need to present the crowdfunding again! We hear about it every day through Kickstarter’s projects or other platforms that abound on the web. But what about biotech’s crowdfunding? Through many French entrepreneur’s interviews who are engaged in crowdfunding’s campaigns, I tried to make my own idea about this new financing tool. And one thing […]

December 22, 2014 - 5 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 20 Dec 2014

French Biotech Start-up Adocia signs Massive €464M Diabetes Deal with Eli Lilly

The French biotechnology company Adocia entered into an alliance with the US Eli Lilly on the co-development of an ultra-fast insulin to treat type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This insuline, called BioChaperone Lispro, has been developed through Adocia’s technology BioChaperone, is currently in Phase Ib clinical study. Under this global license agreement with Adocia, Eli Lilly […]

December 20, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Dec 2014

The French Leader in Insect Transformation Raised 5,5 Million Euros

Nine months after its first 1.8 million euros funding campaign, YNSECT, “The Insect Company”, a company specialized in insect biotechnology, has raised another 5.5 million euros. YNSECT is on its way to become a European and World leader in the insect field. The world is facing a major challenge: the food demand is expected to double by […]

December 19, 2014 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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