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News and Trends 18 Jan 2018

France Gets Ready to Test CAR-Treg Cells to Avoid Transplant Rejection

TxCell has received a €1.2 loan from Bpifrance to complete preclinical trials with its CAR-Treg technology for transplant rejection and start human testing. French biotech TxCell is finalizing the preparations to take its first cell therapy to clinical trials. The treatment, called HLA-A2 CAR-Treg, is intended for the prevention of chronic rejection after organ transplantation. […]

January 18, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 18 Jan 2018

Meet the 10 Promising Synbio Startups in RebelBio’s London Cohort

Irish accelerator RebelBio has launched its latest cohort of startups that will receive its support during a 3-month program at Imperial College London. RebelBio is a startup accelerator that helps entrepreneurs to build technology associated with the life sciences field. It offers seed funding, lab space, mentorship, and a community of successful and diverse founders […]

January 18, 2018 - 4 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 18 Jan 2018

This Cytokine is Key to Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

An international group of researchers has found that the cytokine IL-23 is heavily involved in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, opening the door to new therapies targeting the molecule. Research at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research has identified a crucial molecular mechanism underlying autoimmune and inflammatory diseases like psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. The study, […]

January 18, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 18 Jan 2018

Report from JP Morgan 2018: Taking the Financial Temperature of Biotech

As heard at JP Morgan 2018, last year was an ok year for biotech. But how does 2018 look? Here are the thoughts of a panel convened to discuss the numbers. A biotech whirlwind swept through San Francisco last week as the industry descended on Union Square for the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference of 2018. […]

January 18, 2018 - 5 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 17 Jan 2018

French Biotech Closes a €18.5M Series B to Boost Colon Cancer Diagnostics

HalioDx hopes that its Immunoscore diagnostics platform can help to provide precision medicine for a number of indications, including colon cancer. HalioDx is an expert in cancer diagnostics, specializing in the analysis of the tumor microenvironment. The company has closed a €18.5M Series B financing round – impressive considering the concerns over reimbursement that investors often have for diagnostic […]

January 17, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 17 Jan 2018

Here’s Your New Year’s Resolution: Get Your Immune System in Shape

If you’re having trouble deciding on a New Year’s resolution, why not train up your immune system? Scientists believe this could help prevent the side effects of chemotherapy. Researchers at Technische Universitaet Dresden believe that by ‘training’ the immune system, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy could be spared some of the trauma. The study, published in Cell, […]

January 17, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Oxford Firm Recruits Two Partners to Build Drug Discovery AI

e-Therapeutics has teamed up with AI experts Intellegens and Biorelate to improve its technology for computer-based drug discovery. Based in Oxford, e-Therapeutics has the mission of reducing the time and money it costs to develop new drugs with the help of artificial intelligence. Its platform can explore large amounts of public and private databases to […]

January 16, 2018 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

This French Biotech’s Medical Device Protects Against Antibiotic Resistance

Da Volterra has achieved impressive early results with its antibiotic resistance-busting medical device by successfully protecting the diversity of the microbiome. French biotech Da Volterra is developing products to fight the rapidly rising rates of antibiotic resistance. During a Phase I study, the company’s medical device, DAV132, was used with the antibiotic, moxifloxacin, and successfully protected the intestinal […]

January 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Dutch Biotech Joins International Effort to Eradicate Polio

Batavia Biosciences joins an international consortium to develop and manufacture a safer type of polio vaccine. Their ultimate goal is to eradicate the disease. Based in Leiden, the Netherlands, Batavia Biosciences specializes in the development and production of viruses and proteins. Its expertise has attracted an international consortium to recruit Batavia in their effort to […]

January 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Two Proteins in the Brain Could Protect Against and Repair the Damage Caused by Parkinson’s

Researchers have found two proteins that could be used to treat Parkinson’s disease patients by exerting neuroprotective and regenerative effects. Scientists at the University of the Basque Country have found that two neurotrophic factors work in synergy to benefit patients with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. The findings, based on research carried out across a number of studies, […]

January 16, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 16 Jan 2018

Young Oxford Biotech Raises €22.5M to Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine

Vaccitech has closed a Series A fundraising that will support clinical trials with its vaccine technology against influenza and prostate cancer. Spun out from Oxford University in 2016, Vaccitech has now closed its Series A fundraising round. Amounting to a total of £20M (€22.5M), the round was co-led by GV, Oxford Sciences Innovation and Sequoia China, and joined […]

January 16, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 15 Jan 2018

British Biotech’s Technology is Taken by Pharma to Fight Alzheimer’s

Having developed multispecific antibodies with F-star, Denali Therapeutics has joined forces with Takeda Pharmaceuticals to commercialize Alzheimer’s drugs using the technology. F-star’s bispecific antibody technology has received validation in the form of two pharma companies using it for the development of new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases. San Francisco-based Denali Therapeutics and Japanese company Takeda will collaborate on […]

January 15, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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France Gets Ready to Test CAR-Treg Cells to Avoid Transplant Rejection

Meet the 10 Promising Synbio Startups in RebelBio’s London Cohort

This Cytokine is Key to Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases

Report from JP Morgan 2018: Taking the Financial Temperature of Biotech

French Biotech Closes a €18.5M Series B to Boost Colon Cancer Diagnostics

Here’s Your New Year’s Resolution: Get Your Immune System in Shape

Oxford Firm Recruits Two Partners to Build Drug Discovery AI

This French Biotech’s Medical Device Protects Against Antibiotic Resistance

Dutch Biotech Joins International Effort to Eradicate Polio

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