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News and Trends 3 Jan 2020

Update: CARB-X Grants Antabio Additional €4M to Develop Cystic Fibrosis Antibiotic

Update (03/01/2020): The global non-profit partnership CARB-X has awarded Antabio €4M ($4.4M) as a second grant installment funding development of a novel antibiotic for use against Pseudomonas infections in patients…

January 3, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 30 Jan 2018

Update: Pocket Device makes its Debut in Whole Human Genome Sequencing

Update (30/01/2018): Oxford Nanopore has published a study in Nature Biotechnology outlining the first use of its pocket MinION device to sequence a human genome. The device was able to read…

January 30, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 6 Sep 2017

Europe Gives the Antibiotic Resistance Fight a Major Cash Injection

Six European countries, the UK's Wellcome Trust and South Africa have committed €56.5M to the GARDP to work on breaking antibiotic resistance. The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP)…

September 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 18 Mar 2017

Wellcome Image Awards: These are the Best Biology Images of the Year

The UK's Wellcome trust has selected 22 pictures and images that capture the wonders of the life sciences. They're now on exhibition in the UK and Ireland. The Wellcome Image…

March 18, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 28 Nov 2016

Finally a Cure for the Common Cold? And it’s Needle-free!

Mucosis is starting Phase I trials for SynGEM, a needle-free vaccine against RSV, which causes 200k deaths per year and has a huge cost for both healthcare and the economy. Mucosis…

November 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

Cancer Research UK has teamed up with MSD (Merck) and the Wellcome Trust to co-develop some Inhibitors for both Cancerous and Non-cancerous blood disorders from the Australian Academia-Biotech Network. The Australian…

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Nov 2015

Oxford’s Nightstar Gene Therapy for Blindness in Men Shines with $35M Fundraiser

Choroideremia is a rare X-linked recessive retinal disease which eventually leads to blindness. A series B funding round has landed the NightstaRx ('Nightstar') biotech in Oxford an additional $35M for…

November 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Sep 2015

Apitope relocates to Wales after €12M series B financing round

Now, as we've recently discussed here at Labiotech, there doesn't appear to be many Welsh biotechs...however, this is all about to change, with major Autoimmune disease focused Apitope relocating it's…

September 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 22 Sep 2015

Francis Crick Institute pushes to do human embryo research

The Francis Crick Institute from London has announced its application to conduct non-clinical purpose research on human embryos. The Francis Crick Institute is a cutting-edge collaboration of the UK's leading…

September 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 14 Sep 2015

64 million infected: A brief overview of ReViral and its RSV vaccine competition

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) affects millions annually, therefore attracting many large biotechs to research a vaccine. ReViral (London, UK) has secured €18.5M series A investment into its pre-clinical pipeline. VC…

September 14, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 9 Sep 2015

Kymab: One Multi-Award Winning Biotech Company Worth Watching!

Kymab is the European biotech to watch! Based in Cambridge (UK), the company has developed the Kymouse platform, with a unique approach to antibody delivery that has allowed this biotech to advance…

September 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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