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News and Trends 12 Dec 2022

Antibody discovery could lead to new therapies to tackle Strep A

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered an antibody with the potential to protect against Strep A infection, as well as a rare form of antibody binding, that leads…

December 12, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Dec 2022

New method uses metabolism to detect cancers

When cancer is detected at an early stage, the rates of survival increase drastically, but today only a few cancer types are screened for. An international study led by researchers…

December 8, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 7 Dec 2022

Pixelgen Technologies emerges to advance single-cell spatial proteomics

Pixelgen Technologies has emerged from stealth with a mission to bring a new dimension to single-cell spatial proteomics. The launch follows the close of an approximate $6 million seed round,…

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…

November 24, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Nov 2022

Immune cells in ALS patients can predict the course of the disease

By measuring immune cells in the cerebrospinal fluid when diagnosing ALS, it is possible to predict how fast the disease may progress. This according to a study from Karolinska Institutet…

November 23, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

New discovery gives hope in fight against metastatic cancer

Cancer that splits and develops in new organs around the body becomes significantly more difficult to fight. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that these metastatic cancers,…

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 18 Nov 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 23: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, PsychoGenics

This week, we have three interviews on the theme of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), to mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. We spoke with Holger Zimmermann, CEO of anti-infectives company AiCuris; Neil Clark,…

November 18, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

Altered cell behavior reason for neuroblastoma resistance

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified one of the reasons why the childhood cancer neuroblastoma becomes resistant to chemotherapy. The scientists hope the findings are significant for how…

November 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

Researchers discover protein facilitates relapse of pediatric brain tumors

The malignant brain tumor type medulloblastoma can become resistant to therapy, which can cause relapse. Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have discovered a protein that makes tumor cells insensitive…

November 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

The red cancer cell uses the white protein Memo1 to bind the green copper ions.

News and Trends 10 Nov 2022

Looking for cancer clues? Copper may open new drug treatment doors

For cancer cells to grow and spread around the human body, they need proteins that bind copper ions. New research about how cancer-related proteins bind the metal and how they…

November 10, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

Lipum starts chronic inflammatory disease drug study

Lipum AB (publ) says its phase 1 clinical study with the drug candidate SOL-116 has started and is progressing according to plan. A first dose group of eight healthy volunteers…

November 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

Rallybio announces positive phase 1 results for drug treating PNH and gMG

Affibody’s licensee Rallybio Corporation has announced positive topline results from a phase 1 single ascending dose (SAD) study in healthy participants of RLYB116. RLYB116 is a novel, potentially long-acting, subcutaneously…

November 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 25 Oct 2022

Watch: NLS Days NLSInvest award winners – Asgard Therapeutics

The two biotech start-up companies MyoPax and Asgard Therapeutics won first and second prize at NLSINvest Awards, out of 40 companies that participated in Nordic Life Science Days’ start-up pitching…

October 25, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Oct 2022

Watch: NLS Days NLSInvest award winners – MyoPax

The two biotech start-up companies MyoPax and Asgards Therapeutics won first and second prize at NLSINvest Awards, out of 40 companies that participated in Nordic Life Science Days’ start-up pitching…

October 21, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Oct 2022

Spanish research institution to use Elicera Therapeutics’ iTANK platform

Elicera Therapeutics AB has entered a material transfer agreement with the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (JCLRI) in Spain for use of the iTANK platform in arming CAR T-cells for…

October 20, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Oct 2022

Gene activity could help identify risk of kidney cancer spreading

Among patients with kidney cancer, the activity of four specific genes in the cancer cells seems to be able to predict the risk of the tumor spreading and the patient’s…

October 17, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Oct 2022

Cytel signs agreement with two Scandinavian medicinal product companies

U.S.-based Cytel Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Scandinavian companies SDS Life Sciences AB and SDS MedeQ AB. Cytel says the move will add new talent to the…

October 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 11 Oct 2022

Gedea Biotech reports results from bacterial vaginosis trial

Gedea Biotech has reported top-line results from a clinical study, NEFERTITI, of its lead product, pHyph, a vaginal tablet for topical treatment of bacterial vaginosis (BV). NEFERTITI is a placebo-controlled,…

October 11, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 3 Oct 2022

Oncopeptides starts European commercialization of myeloma drug in Germany

Swedish biotech company Oncopeptides AB has initiated the commercial launch of Pepaxti (melphalan flufenamide) in Germany. It marks the first market in Europe where the drug is being launched. On…

October 3, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 30 Sep 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 16: Adocia, Omnio, Phenomix Sciences, Tridek-One

This week, we have four guests: Olivier Soula, deputy-CEO and director of R&D at Adocia; Ulrika Norin, CEO of Omnio; Mark Bagnall, CEO of Phenomix Sciences; and Laurence de Schoulepnikoff,…

September 30, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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