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News and Trends 20 Dec 2017

Israeli Biotech Acquires Microbiome Company to Fight Chronic Liver Disease

BiomX has acquired RondinX, expanding its bacterial target discovery platform and adding new microbiome targets for chronic liver disease. BiomX is a company based in Ness Ziona, Israel, developing customized phage therapy to selectively destroy the bacteria that cause diseases ranging from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to cancer. The company has just acquired RondinX, another […]

December 20, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 30 Nov 2017

Qiagen Joins French Biotech to Build the Next Generation of Microbiome Technology

Biomillenia harnesses the power of bacteria to keep the body healthy. The biotech has joined forces with Qiagen to develop microbiome-on-a-chip technology. Scientists around the world believe that the microbiome could hold the key to human health. One company in this area, Biomillenia, develops microbial strains from previously unculturable microbiomes to unlock its full potential. The company has now […]

November 30, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 28 Sep 2017

French Microbiome Biotech Gets a €6.5M Leg Up to Market Launch

LNC Therapeutics is ready to take its oral microbiome-based therapeutic to market for obesity. Investors have contributed a bit of cash to get it there. Bordeaux-based LNC Therapeutics has raked in €6.5M in a Series C. It has raised a total of €16.5M since it was founded in 2010. Seventure Partners, a leading VC focused […]

September 28, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

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News and Trends 26 Sep 2017

French Biotech Gets $20M to Treat the Microbiome with CRISPR Nanobots

Eligo Bioscience has announced its first fundraising round, amassing $20M (€18.5M) that will be put towards bringing it CRISPR nanobots to a first clinical trial in humans. The French startup Eligo Bioscience has grown rapidly since its foundation in 2014. The company has announced today its Series A round, which, led by Khosla Ventures and […]

September 26, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 22 Sep 2017

EU gives French Biotech €20M to Continue the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Da Volterra has been boosted by a €20M loan to speed up the development of solutions for the antibiotic resistance crisis. The French biopharma concentrates on the prevention and treatment of serious infections. This is a big area of interest due to rapidly rising antibiotic resistance. The company has been boosted by a €20M loan from the […]

September 22, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 15 Sep 2017

Bayer Launches Plant Microbiome Biotech with a Huge €84M Series A

Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks are launching a new company that will develop new technologies for sustainable agriculture by engineering the plant microbiome. With the microbiome already gaining traction in the therapeutics field, Bayer has decided to take it to agriculture. In partnership with US synthetic biology upstart Ginkgo Bioworks, the German giant is creating a new […]

September 15, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 9 Sep 2017

The Music of the Microbiome Questions our Identity as Humans

Slovenian artists Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj and Anil Podgornik explore the meaning of human identity by letting their microbiome play music. Have you ever wondered what the microbes that live in and on you would tell you if you listened to them? A group of Slovenian artists decided to let their own microbes make music, building […]

September 9, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 11 Jul 2017

Enterome and Nestle Launch a New Microbiome Diagnostics Company

Microbiome Diagnostics Partners will develop diagnostics tests with Enterome’s microbiome platform IP and a €20M investment from Nestlé. Nestlé Health Science and Enterome have created Microbiome Diagnostics Partners (MDP) as a joint venture split 50% between both parties. Nestlé has invested €20M for its stake in the new company as well as the exclusive option to commercialize […]

July 11, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 7 Jul 2017

Better than CRISPR? New Genetic Analysis Method ropes in Long-Read DNA Cloning

After CRISPR, there’s a new genetic technique with a tongue-in-cheek name in town: LASSO cloning. Researchers from four institutions, including the US-based John Hopkins, Rutgers and Harvard, and the University of Trento in Italy, have developed a new technology to study large chunks of DNA and their function. The work behind it was recently published in Nature Biomedical […]

July 7, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 19 Jun 2017

This Company Uses the Human Microbiome to Discover New Disease Mechanisms

A whole new avenue to human health and disease could soon be accessible, thanks to the human tissue microbiome. Vaiomer has found a way to make it possible! Has anyone else ever been unsettled by the idea that the human body hosts about 10 times more microbes than human cells? Although this might seem an […]

June 19, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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News and Trends 1 Jun 2017

Why Should we be Excited about the Emerging Microbiome Field?

A panel of experts at Microbiome Invest in London discussed the unlimited applications of the microbiome and how emerging companies may have a big impact on healthcare. During the past 10 years, the role of bacterial populations within our own organism has been studied, revealing a huge potential to develop new types of therapeutics. “The microbiome represents a […]

June 1, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 24 May 2017

Curious about Who is Living in Your Gut? This Kit Can Tell You

Personalized and democratized medicine is coming to the microbiome via a new initiative, FeelGut, from Biopolis. The FeelGut kit lets you explore your gut! FeelGut is a new kit for those of us who want to explore their microbiota. It’s developed by Biopolis, a Spanish biotech committed to empowering people through improved understanding and control of […]

May 24, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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