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News and Trends 14 Oct 2015

Curetis IPO Launched to further expand Infectious Disease Detection in Global Market

Curetis AG, the molecular diagnostics company from the Stuttgart area (Germany), has now announced its launch of an initial public offering (IPO). Previously, this biotech has raised €63.5M to develop its Unyvero Platform for testing infectious disease, including Pneumonia and biomarkers in antibiotic resistance. This new IPO aims to further commercialize this system and expand […]

October 14, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 8 Oct 2015

The Future Biotech Lab Bench: My experience of the cutting edge-tech at LABVOLUTION

Yesterday I went to Biotechnica – one of the biggest events for Lab tech debut in Europe, which took place in Hanover (Germany). One particular exhibition caught my eye – the LABVOLUTION trade fair, exhibiting a live demonstration of a connected laboratory: the ‘smartLAB‘! So it’s been a while since I last worked in a […]

October 8, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 6 Oct 2015

Sony DADC re-purposing Blu-Ray Technology for Clinical Immunoassays

Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation (Sony DADC) BioSciences is a DVD and Blu-ray disc manufacturer headquartered in Salzburg (Austria). A new collaboration with FIONASTICS (an immunoassay specialist) means they will use their Blu-Ray tech to develop a new nanostructure platform for fluorescent immunoassays. These will be developed for use in detection of clinical biomarkers for […]

October 6, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 1 Oct 2015

Artificially Intelligent ‘Betsy’ will analyse 100,000 genomes for UK Government

The “Berg Interrogative Biology” program from Boston (US) is a form of artificial intelligence the UK government has employed to work its Genome project. The platform will use a combination of systems biology techniques to analyse up to 100,000 genomes sourced from England’s National Health Service (NHS) for Genomics England (owned by the UK Department […]

October 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Sep 2015

Gecko’s Heart surgery glue the new Cover of Science’s Translational Medicine

Gecko Biomedical is a young Parisian biotech which is now featured on the front cover of the Science Journal for Translational Medicine. We explore their surgery adhesive tech inspired by natural stickiness of molluscan slugs, and their latest proof of its application in heart surgery. Gecko Biomedical was only founded in 2013 by a rockstar […]

September 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Sep 2015

A Cartridge system to revolutionize diagnosis time of infective pathogens?

Canada’s Axela partners up with Swiss Hutman Diagnostics to test the cartridge based detection kit with their pan-European infectious disease resources. The Alena System could revolutionize time and cost of diagnosing bacterial pathogens in meningitis, endocarditis and hospital-acquired infections etc. Hutman Diagnostics is originally from Basel (Switzerland) having been founded in 2011 as a developer […]

September 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 23 Sep 2015

British Bionic Pancreas controlled by iPhone to revolutionize Type I Diabetes treatment

It’s finally happened; a research team from the University of Cambridge (UK) has managed to develop a closed loop beta-cell based insulin delivery system for diabetes type I. This bionic pancreas prototype has been constructed for human trials using an iPhone app which monitors blood glucose levels. There are 3 components to the bionic pancreas; […]

September 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 23 Sep 2015

NovoCure, the Israeli tumor specialist announces NASDAQ €170M IPO

NovoCure, originally from Haifa (Israel) is planning an IPO on NASDAQ with a target of €170M to make from its 12.5M shares on offer. It is hoped this financial injection will further commercialize its FDA-approved tumor treating field (TTField) medical device Optune. NovoCure is a commercial stage oncology biotech specialising in trials for solid-tumor treatments. Founded […]

September 23, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Sep 2015

Swiss Biotech Boom: Life sciences startups dominate top 100 awards

Exciting news for the Swiss biotech frontline! The TOP 100 Start-Up award is hosted by Startup.ch the Swiss start-up platform (through IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen) in collaboration with the major paper Handelszeitung and PME Magazine, ranking the 100 most promising new start up companies. Of these 100, a whopping 68 of these start-ups are in the […]

September 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 18 Sep 2015

Servier to revolutionize Diabetes treatment thanks to Intarcia’s successful Phase III

Treatment of diabetes hasn’t changed so much since the development of first human insulin by Genentech. But Boston-based Intarcia (a partner of Servier and one of the 9 billion-dollar Biotech startups worldwide) has just published positive phase III results of its implantable device aiming at changing how type 2 diabetes are treated. November 2014: I thought […]

September 18, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

Louvain-la-Neuve: A Belgian temple for success in cell therapy

Artificial three-dimensional tissues to regenerate bones and soft tissues: Novadip Biosciences’ dream is a step closer to reality after successfully closing a €28M Series A round. The spin-off of Université Catholique de Louvain coexists with Celyad and Promethera in a biotech cluster where cell therapy is the key protagonist. The financing round, led by New […]

September 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 11 Sep 2015

Biom’Up funding goes up Up UP! Surgery tech gets new pot of €31.3M VC

Biom’Up is a Lyon (Fr) Med-tech company which produces biopolymer devices to improve surgery. Launch of their new product Hemoblast has triggered a series C investment round from a large syndicate of European venture capitals. Biom’Up was founded in 2005, experiencing exponential growth since with their biopolymer tech development which achieved a €3M turnover in […]

September 11, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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