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News and Trends 10 Feb 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 33: Astellas Pharma, Innovation Agency Lithuania, 4basebio

This week, our guests are Romualda Stragienė, director at Innovation Agency Lithuania and Andrius Sliuzas, export key account manager of high tech industries at Innovation Agency Lithuania; 4basebio CEO Heikki Lanckriet; and Yoshitsugu Shitaka, chief scientific officer at Astellas. 4basebio 4basebio, a spinout of 2Invest AG in 2020, is a life sciences company engaged in […]

February 10, 2023

News and Trends 7 Feb 2023

AAHI bags $9.9M to develop nasal spray influenza RNA vaccine

The Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI) has been awarded a project agreement worth up to $9.9 million through the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to develop a prototype intranasal bivalent influenza RNA vaccine candidate. The candidate will be based on AAHI’s self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) platform, which targets both pandemic A(H5N1) […]

February 7, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Feb 2023

Cancer Genomics: Technological innovation set to fuel research breakthroughs

By Neil Ward, vice President and general manager, PacBio EMEA We’ve known for a long time that genomic sequencing can strengthen our understanding of cancer’s highly complex and variable pathology. But to date, embedding genomics into cancer research has been challenging because of limitations in sequencing technology. But with recent innovations, this is changing. Genomic […]

February 1, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 26 Jan 2023

Lupus treatment hope from Japanese miRNA research

A group of researchers from the Graduate School of Medicine at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered the impact of microRNA (miRNA) on inflammation in lupus in mice. They identified two miRNAs that are downregulated in the disease and an uncommon situation that occurs in which multiple miRNAs regulate the same set of genes. Although […]

January 26, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 23 Jan 2023

Watch: pHion Therapeutics talks about next-generation mRNA vaccines

pHion Therapeutics is a U.K.-based vaccine development company. It is developing a pipeline of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines focussed on viral infections and oncology. The company’s proprietary RALA platform can deliver anionic molecules, such as mRNA and DNA, in a stealth-like way, evading detection, to generate a potent antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell response. The RALA peptide-based […]

January 23, 2023 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 11 Jan 2023

AbbVie bets on Anima mRNA modulators to tackle cancer

AbbVie and Anima Biotech have announced a collaboration to discover and develop mRNA biology modulators for three targets in oncology and immunology. Anima Biotech will use its mRNA Lightning platform to discover novel mRNA biology modulators against the collaboration targets, providing AbbVie exclusive rights to license and further develop and commercialize the programs. “This collaboration […]

January 11, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Jan 2023

BioNTech partnering with UK Government on personalized mRNA cancer immunotherapies

BioNTech SE has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of the United Kingdom. The deal is set to benefit patients by speeding up clinical trials for personalized mRNA immunotherapies. The aim is to provide personalized cancer therapies for up to 10,000 patients by the end of 2030, either through clinical trials or […]

January 6, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Jan 2023

2023 Editorial Calendar updated

Each month here at Labiotech.eu, we produce a special newsletter. While still news-related, these special editions are an opportunity to take a deeper look at topics of interest. It also allows us to focus on some of the special awareness days – of which there are many – associated with health and the life sciences. […]

January 5, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Dec 2022

Ethris and DIOSynVax to develop mRNA betacoronavirus vaccine

Ethris GmbH is to collaborate with U.K.-based DIOSynVax to jointly develop a protective mRNA vaccine candidate against a broad range of betacoronaviruses. The efforts will utilize Ethris’ mRNA modification and design technologies as well as its lipidoid nanoparticle (LNP) and stabilization platforms. The collaboration is founded on a $42 million award to DIOSynVax by the […]

December 21, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Dec 2022

Providence Therapeutics’ mRNA rabies vaccine hits milestone

Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc. says its new mRNA vaccine program for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis has achieved a preclinical proof-of-concept milestone. The candidate was developed in partnership with Everest Medicines utilizing Providence’s clinically validated mRNA technology platform. “We are pleased to demonstrate that Providence’s mRNA technology supports development of additional products that fight a number of […]

December 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

ExPLoRNA Therapeutics receives mRNA technology funding

ExPLoRNA Therapeutics, a Polish biotech company working on mRNA vaccines and therapeutics, has received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop its mRNA technology. ExPLoRNA specializes in novel cap analogs, the starting part of mRNA crucial for enabling successful production of the encoded protein. ExPLoRNA’s technology increases protein production beyond the […]

December 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Nov 2022

AI works on artificial DNA for future drug development

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that controls the cells’ protein production. The technology can contribute to the development and production of vaccines, drugs for severe diseases, as well as alternative food proteins much faster and at significantly lower costs […]

November 24, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Beyond Biotech podcast 33: Astellas Pharma, Innovation Agency Lithuania, 4basebio

AAHI bags $9.9M to develop nasal spray influenza RNA vaccine

Cancer Genomics: Technological innovation set to fuel research breakthroughs

Lupus treatment hope from Japanese miRNA research

Watch: pHion Therapeutics talks about next-generation mRNA vaccines

AbbVie bets on Anima mRNA modulators to tackle cancer

BioNTech partnering with UK Government on personalized mRNA cancer immunotherapies

2023 Editorial Calendar updated

Ethris and DIOSynVax to develop mRNA betacoronavirus vaccine

Providence Therapeutics’ mRNA rabies vaccine hits milestone

ExPLoRNA Therapeutics receives mRNA technology funding

AI works on artificial DNA for future drug development

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