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News and Trends 8 Aug 2022

Epigenic Therapeutics raises $20M for gene editing technology

Epigenic Therapeutics Co., Ltd., a Chinese biotech gene editing company, has secured $20 million in Series Angel and Pre-A funding. The Series Pre-A funding came from investments by Morningside Venture Capital, Kingray Capital, Trinity Innovation Fund and TigerYeah Capital. Angel investor FountainBridge Capital is also participating. The proceeds will be used to advance the company’s […]

August 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 3 Aug 2022

Poseida Therapeutics and Roche to focus on therapies for hematologic malignancies

Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. has entered into a broad strategic collaboration and license agreement with Roche, focused on developing allogeneic CAR-T therapies directed to hematologic malignancies. The global collaboration covers the research and development of multiple existing and novel off-the-shelf cell therapies against targets in multiple myeloma, B-cell lymphomas and other hematologic indications. “We are excited […]

August 3, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 26 Jul 2022

How DNA sequencing can safeguard against biodiversity loss

Preserving Earth’s biodiversity is crucial as we rely on healthy ecosystems for many services, from clean air and water to protection from floods and pandemics. DNA sequencing is an invaluable tool for characterizing biodiversity and informing conservation efforts. In Earth’s history, there have been five major mass extinction events — the most recent of which […]

July 26, 2022 - 8 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

News and Trends 25 Jul 2022

Replay launches with $55M to reprogram biology by writing and delivering big DNA

Replay, a genome writing company reprogramming biology by writing and delivering big DNA, has launched with $55 million in seed financing. The round was led by KKR and OMX Ventures, with additional participation from ARTIS Ventures and Lansdowne Partners, SALT, DeciBio Ventures, and Axial. Replay, which is based in San Diego, Cal., and London, U.K., […]

July 25, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 13 Jul 2022

Development of cancer therapeutics accelerated by end-to-end single-cell multi-omics services

Solid tumor assays have been launched by Mission Bio Inc., through its Pharma Assay Development (PAD) services. The availability of this new service offering from Mission Bio, a high-throughput single-cell DNA and multi-omics analysis company, will help accelerate the development of cancer therapeutics. It will do so by reducing the time and cost associated with […]

July 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Jul 2022

World’s first research project for an early detection, multi-cancer screening test launched in Singapore

A project for the discovery and validation of new combinations of biomarkers that can detect multi-cancer early has been launched in Singapore. Biotechnology company, MiRXES Ptr Ltd, announced this week the signing of a memorandum of understanding signaling the launch of Project CADENCE (Cancer Detected Early caN be CurEd). It is the world’s first large-scale […]

July 8, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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News and Trends 5 Jul 2022

Poxel publishes ALD studies

Two preclinical articles have been published in different journals for treatments being developed by French biopharmaceutical company, Poxel. Poxel develops treatments for chronic, serious diseases with metabolic pathophysiology including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and rare metabolic disorders. The articles have been about genetic disease X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and molecules PXL065 and PXL770. These molecules have separate […]

July 5, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

In Depth 7 Mar 2022

Multiplexing Speeds up Writing and Editing DNA

While scientists can read DNA fast, editing and writing it is not that easy. Increasing the speed of editing and writing DNA sequences will be critical to ushering in new applications of genome engineering. Much of biotech is about reverse-engineering the designs that billions of years of evolution have put together. To be able to […]

March 7, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Sachin Rawat

News and Trends 1 Feb 2022

Ribbon Biolabs Pushes DNA Synthesis Length Limits with €18M Series A

The Viennese biotech startup Ribbon Biolabs has raised an €18M Series A round to reduce the costs of synthesizing long DNA molecules, which could accelerate research into synthetic biology and the storage of data as DNA. Supported by lead investor Hadean Ventures, Ribbon Biolabs’ fundraising round is part and parcel of a continuing investor interest […]

February 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Dan Samorodnitsky

News and Trends 14 Jan 2022

Europe Trailed US Despite Record Gene and Cell Therapy Funding in 2021

Cell and gene therapy developers globally raised an all-time annual record in 2021. However, European firms missed out on the funding growth. Companies around the world developing cell and gene therapies raised €20.1B ($23.1B) over 2021, said the advanced therapy advocacy organization the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) in a briefing this week. This bumper […]

January 14, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 17 Dec 2021

UK Startup Lands €5M Seed Round to Produce Gene-Edited Crops with AI

Phytoform, a London- and Boston-based startup, has received a €5M ($5.7M) investment to develop gene-edited crops with the help of artificial intelligence tools. The firm expects to bring its first product, a weather-resistant tomato, to market in early 2022. The seed financing will fuel the development of Phytoform’s precision crop breeding platform, which specializes in […]

December 17, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Dan Samorodnitsky

News and Trends 28 Oct 2021

DNA Manufacturing Startups Net Venture Capital Windfalls

Touchlight Genetics and DNA Script have closed major venture financing rounds in the last month as investor excitement mounts over the next generations of DNA manufacturing. DNA Script made a big splash in Paris this week as it raked in €142M in Series C funding. The company will ramp up the commercialization of its benchtop […]

October 28, 2021 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Epigenic Therapeutics raises $20M for gene editing technology

Poseida Therapeutics and Roche to focus on therapies for hematologic malignancies

How DNA sequencing can safeguard against biodiversity loss

Replay launches with $55M to reprogram biology by writing and delivering big DNA

Development of cancer therapeutics accelerated by end-to-end single-cell multi-omics services

World’s first research project for an early detection, multi-cancer screening test launched in Singapore

Poxel publishes ALD studies

Multiplexing Speeds up Writing and Editing DNA

Ribbon Biolabs Pushes DNA Synthesis Length Limits with €18M Series A

Europe Trailed US Despite Record Gene and Cell Therapy Funding in 2021

UK Startup Lands €5M Seed Round to Produce Gene-Edited Crops with AI

DNA Manufacturing Startups Net Venture Capital Windfalls

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