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News and Trends 24 Nov 2015

Next Generation Sequencing: the final step to massively adopt Personalized Medicine

For several decades, physicians have been dreaming of a Personalized Medicine, able to treat patients according to their genetic profile. The development of Next Generation Sequencing techniques can be the ultimate step before a massive adoption of personalized medicine. The world of medicine is shifting from the traditional “one size fits all” approach to one […]

November 24, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 23 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Genenta Biosciences, a Novel Gene Therapies from Italy

This week we depart from East Germany and head south, through both Liechtenstein and Switzerland to the northern region of Italy, Lombardy. Here we arrive in Italy’s second largest city, Milan. This city is the center of fashion, Italian cuisine and is home to Da Vinci’s, ‘The Last Supper’ however, it is also home […]

October 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

In Depth 20 Oct 2015

The Ultimate Review on how Biotech Changed Cancer Treatment

You have roughly 50% chance of developing a cancer in your life and 25% of dying from it. How to cure it? Biotech played and will continue to play an essential role in Cancer, ranging from monoclonal antibodies, immuno-oncology, CAR-T and everything in between. Cancer is the degeneration of one type of cell within an […]

October 20, 2015 - 10 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

News and Trends 16 Oct 2015

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

This week, we’re leaving Paris and heading East to a city that’s 9 times bigger than the capital of France, it’s also the city we all call home here at Labiotech, Berlin. When someone thinks of Berlin, they think of the wall, the Fernsehturm (television tower) and its amazing nightlife (I can personally agree with this 😉 […]

October 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 7 Oct 2015

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: DNA Repairing Mechanisms that Keep you Alive

DNA repair mechanisms are crucial to our existence. Without them, we would not survive because of DNA damage caused by the environment (e.g UV light damage, radiation etc.). This crucial research into discovery of three DNA repair mechanisms was led by Thomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar who jointly received this years Nobel Prize […]

October 7, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 5 Oct 2015

€31M goes to a 15-month old Start-up tackling the leading cause of Dwarfism

TherAchon is a 15-month old start-up from the Nice area (France) which has attracted some serious US investors as of late, drawn by their pioneering protein therapy for Achondroplasia (the leading cause of Dwarfism). OrbiMed have now joined New Enterprise Associates and Versant Ventures in a €31 million series A pot for their pre-clinical candidate. […]

October 5, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Aug 2015

FDA shelves UniQure’s Glybera – will the Gene therapy once reach the US market?

The €1.1M drug Glybera was the first gene therapy on the European market. UniQure wants to sell it in the US too, but the FDA makes it much more difficult than expected. UniQure’s financial report of the first half of 2015 shows good results, cash and cash equivalents of the company increased to €181.9M, compared with […]

August 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Aug 2015

What happened this week? Biotech revolutionizes Coffee, Paris N°1 Biocluster, a DNA-made Computer…

Welcome in our Top of the week list! This week is full of uncommon stories. Did you know that we can create the best coffee from Biotech techniques? The New York-based startup Afineur can do this! Even more crazy, what do you think of a DNA-made computer? Quite strange, right! Well, if you’re curious, read […]

August 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 20 Aug 2015

DNA to play an essential role in the future of Computers?

You can do terrific things with DNA – convicting a murderer, confirming the right father … and building computers! As biomolecular computing is ever-growing, scientists from the University of East Anglia found a new way to convert DNA in a switching mechanism. This could be used in new bio-computers built from DNA. The structure of […]

August 20, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 19 Aug 2015

Top 5 Biotech Books to Enjoy your Summer on the Beach

Summer is a great time to read books and get inspired for the year to come. Here’s a Top 5 list of my recommendations to read before summer ends. 1. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech Genentech is considered the founder of the Biotech industry in the late 80s. It started from breakthrough science, crazy scientists and very risk-taking […]

August 19, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 12 Aug 2015

A Tale of Love for UniQure and Bristol-Myers Squibb

In May, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) nailed down the exclusive access to uniQure’s gene therapy platform to treat cardiovascular diseases. Everything seems to work out fine as BMS paid $53M (€47M) for three new targets and additional shares to own nearly 10% of the company. UniQure is a Dutch pioneer in the field of gene therapy. It […]

August 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 20 Jul 2015

Theravectys’ HIV Cure on the Road to Success

Theravectys just announced positive results of its HIV drug candidate in a phase I/II study. The therapeutic vaccine using lentivirus could be the first cure available for the 35 million people currently suffering from this worldwide epidemic. Paris-based Theravectys presented detailed results from its phase I/II study at the 2015 Towards an HIV Cure Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. The trial currently enrolled 38 HIV-positive patients […]

July 20, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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Next Generation Sequencing: the final step to massively adopt Personalized Medicine

Biotech of the week: Genenta Biosciences, a Novel Gene Therapies from Italy

The Ultimate Review on how Biotech Changed Cancer Treatment

Biotech of the week: Mologen, the Largest Publicly-listed Biotech of Berlin

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: DNA Repairing Mechanisms that Keep you Alive

€31M goes to a 15-month old Start-up tackling the leading cause of Dwarfism

FDA shelves UniQure’s Glybera – will the Gene therapy once reach the US market?

What happened this week? Biotech revolutionizes Coffee, Paris N°1 Biocluster, a DNA-made Computer…

DNA to play an essential role in the future of Computers?

Top 5 Biotech Books to Enjoy your Summer on the Beach

A Tale of Love for UniQure and Bristol-Myers Squibb

Theravectys’ HIV Cure on the Road to Success

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