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News and Trends 7 Sep 2022

TikoMed drug inhibits infection of human cells by dengue, zika and yellow fever viruses

TikoMed has announced the inclusion in bioRxiv of an in vitro study examining the ability of the company’s lead drug candidate ILB to inhibit infection of human cells by four serotypes of dengue virus (DENV1-4), two strains of zika virus (African and Asian) and yellow fever virus (vaccine strain YF17D) assessed by immunofluorescence of viral […]

September 7, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Lonza and Touchlight collaboration will expands customer’s access to DNA

Manufacturing partner, Lonza, has today (September 6) announced a collaboration with Touchlight, a biotech company that works with enzymatic DNA production enabling genetic medicine. Through this collaboration, Lonza says it will have the ability to expand it end-to-end offering for mRNA manufacturing with an additional source of DNA raw material. This material comes from Touchlight’s […]

September 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

More companies enter BioInnovation Institute Venture Lab program

Nine ventures and two projects have become the latest addition to The BioInnovation Institute’s (BII) Venture Lab acceleration program for early-stage companies. BioInnovation Institute is an international commercial non-profit foundation based in Denmark, which incubates and accelerates life science research. The cohort consists of nine ventures plus two corporate-sponsored innovation projects from Novo Nordisk – […]

September 6, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Finnish researchers use machine learning to unlock clinical cancer samples’ genomic code

A new paper from the University of Helsinki, published in Nature Communications, suggests a method for accurately analyzing genomics data in archival cancer biopsies. The tool uses machine learning methods to correct damaged DNA and unveil the true mutation processes in tumor samples. This helps to unlock medicine values in millions of archival cancer samples. […]

September 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

IRLAB’s partner Ipsen starts mesdopetam clinical studies

IRLAB Therapeutics AB, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel treatments for the most troublesome symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, says its partner, Ipsen, has initiated clinical studies with drug candidate mesdopetam in accordance with its development plan. These are standard clinical pharmacokinetic studies that will run in parallel to the phase IIb study with […]

September 6, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Synaffix and Emergence in $360M technology platform deal to develop ADCs

Dutch biotech Synaffix B.V. and German Emergence Therapeutics announced today (September 6) they have entered into a licensing agreement of up to $360 million. The agreement will provide Emergence access on a target-specific basis to Synaffix’s antibody drug conjugate (ADC) technologies made up of Glycoconnect, HydraSpace and SYNtecan E linker payload. Under the terms of […]

September 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Forsea Foods is relieving bottleneck in seafood supply starting with eel meat

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Forsea Foods creates eel meat using patented organoid technology

Cell cultured seafood produced with the same nutrients and texture has been developed through patented organoid technology. Previously used in developmental biology, medicine and research, organoids are stem cell-derived, three-dimensional tissue structures that, when used in cell-cultured seafood products, require only a minimal amount of growth factors. Forsea Foods Ltd. has announced it is beginning […]

September 6, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Salipro Biotech obtains patents for direct extraction of membrane proteins and library generation

Salipro Biotech AB, a Swedish biotech company with a platform for the stabilization of membrane proteins for drug development, has had patents issued by both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the China National Intellectual Property Administration. The patent is entitled “Saposin lipoprotein particles and libraries from crude membranes.” The patents cover the company’s […]

September 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Innovent starts trial of mazdutide in Chinese adults with obesity

Innovent Biologics, Inc. says the first participant has been successfully dosed in the higher-dose cohort of a phase 2 clinical trial of mazdutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) and glucagon receptor (GCGR) dual agonist, in Chinese adults with obesity. This randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of mazdutide […]

September 6, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Pleco Therapeutics raises €17.3M to develop AML product

Pleco Therapeutics BV, a specialty biopharmaceutical company in the Netherlands developing novel treatments designed to detoxify the cancer micro-environment has raised total funds of €17.3 million ($17.2 million) in series A financing. The funds will be used to complete development of, and to commercialize, the company’s novel lead Plecoid product, PTX-061, to improve the effectiveness […]

September 6, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Sep 2022

First patient with peripheral T cell lymphoma dosed with Yingli Pharma’s linperlisib

The first patient has been dosed in a phase 2 trial looking at a drug to treat peripheral T cell lymphomas – a heterogenous group of generally aggressive neoplasms. Yingli Pharma made the announcement on Saturday (September 3) that patients were being dosed with linperlisib – a potent inhibitor of the delta isoform of PI3 […]

September 5, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 5 Sep 2022

CellOrigin Biotech and Qilu Pharmaceutical to develop CAR-iMAC cell therapy

CellOrigin Biotech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. and Qilu Pharmaceutical are to collaborate on strategic global collaborations to develop, manufacture and commercialize ‘off-the-shelf’ induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)-derived chimeric antigen receptor macrophages (CAR-iMAC) for cancer immunotherapy. Both companies will work on new drug development and commercialization, and will push CAR-iMAC pipelines forward to clinical trials. “Innovation, and […]

September 5, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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TikoMed drug inhibits infection of human cells by dengue, zika and yellow fever viruses

Lonza and Touchlight collaboration will expands customer’s access to DNA

More companies enter BioInnovation Institute Venture Lab program

Finnish researchers use machine learning to unlock clinical cancer samples’ genomic code

IRLAB’s partner Ipsen starts mesdopetam clinical studies

Synaffix and Emergence in $360M technology platform deal to develop ADCs

Forsea Foods creates eel meat using patented organoid technology

Salipro Biotech obtains patents for direct extraction of membrane proteins and library generation

Innovent starts trial of mazdutide in Chinese adults with obesity

Pleco Therapeutics raises €17.3M to develop AML product

First patient with peripheral T cell lymphoma dosed with Yingli Pharma’s linperlisib

CellOrigin Biotech and Qilu Pharmaceutical to develop CAR-iMAC cell therapy

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