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News and Trends 11 Jul 2017

Novartis largely dodged deaths from its CAR-T therapy, but FDA still has safety concerns

Editor’s Note: Novartis did note a death from cerebral hemorrhage in its hearing with the FDA yesterday. With the application review hearing set for tomorrow, the FDA has shared its thoughts on Novartis’ CAR-T candidate. Up front are serious safety concerns. Novartis’ CTL019, or Tisagenlecleucel, wowed the audience at ASH last fall with a stellar 82% […]

July 11, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 10 Jul 2017

You can buy DNA on Amazon, thanks to this Biotech Accelerator

Steve O’Connell from RebelBio spoke to us about how far consumer biotech has come and synbio’s role in its democratization. Steve Jobs famously predicted that biology would one day go the way of computing and become available to the ordinary consumer. How is it progressing? “It’s already happening,” Steve O’Connell, Associate Director of RebelBio, told Philip […]

July 10, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 10 Jul 2017

Swiss Biotech Starts Phase II Trial to Treat Motor Symptoms of Parkinson’s

Prexton Therapeutics has launched a Phase II trial to test whether its drug foliglurax can treat the motor complications of standard levodopa therapy. The Phase II trial will enroll 165 patients across the UK, Germany, France, Austria, Spain and Italy to monitor the effects of Prexton’s foliglurax. The company is looking for patients that have been treated […]

July 10, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 10 Jul 2017

Danish Diabetes Biotech Shoots for a €75M IPO in the US Nasdaq

Zealand Pharma, known for its partnership with Sanofi to boost the insulin blockbuster Lantus, is aiming high in an IPO on the US Nasdaq. Zealand Pharma has announced it has already filed for an IPO at the Nasdaq Global Select Market, an exclusive listing for large cap companies. Currently listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen, Zealand Pharma […]

July 10, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 10 Jul 2017

Sanofi and US Partner Launch Phase III Trial in Hemophilia with RNAi

Alnylam and its partner Sanofi are starting a Phase III program to enter its RNAi drug fitusiran in the competitive hemophilia market. Sanofi and its partner Alnylam have announced the start of a Phase III program that seeks to recruit 250 patients to test its RNAi drug fitusiran in patients with both hemophilia A and […]

July 10, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 10 Jul 2017

This tech not only flags but also identifies and quantifies HCP contaminants

If host cell proteins linger in your biological therapeutic, they can cause your clinical failure or regulatory rejection. Here’s how you can keep track of them. Today, biological drugs are generally produced in cell lines — from yeast, Chinese Hamsters, or a variety of other sources. It’s pretty cool that humans can manipulate these organisms […]

July 10, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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News and Trends 8 Jul 2017

Memories Encoded in DNA and Biological Reliques

Margherita Pevere is an artist that uses living organisms to explore our relationship with nature and technology, and our obsession with preserving information. Margherita Pevere is an artist fascinated by the connection between humans and nature, and how the pervasive introduction of technology into all aspects of our lives is affecting this relationship. Her work puts living […]

July 8, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 7 Jul 2017

French Mobile Diabetes Firm gets €17.5M to Build an Artificial Pancreas

Cellnovo has launched a capital increase from top European investors to boost its mobile system for diabetes and complete the development of a fully automated artificial pancreas. Cellnovo is a French medtech company with an all-in-one system to manage diabetes in the market. The company has now announced a capital raise of €17.5M to boost […]

July 7, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 7 Jul 2017

Better than CRISPR? New Genetic Analysis Method ropes in Long-Read DNA Cloning

After CRISPR, there’s a new genetic technique with a tongue-in-cheek name in town: LASSO cloning. Researchers from four institutions, including the US-based John Hopkins, Rutgers and Harvard, and the University of Trento in Italy, have developed a new technology to study large chunks of DNA and their function. The work behind it was recently published in Nature Biomedical […]

July 7, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 6 Jul 2017

Roche and Ireland’s Biggest Biopharma Take Their Parkinson’s Antibody to Phase II

Prothena and Roche are advancing their Parkinson’s antibody to Phase II, triggering a new milestone payment from what is proving a lucrative deal for Prothena. Prothena, the largest biopharma in Ireland, and its partner Roche have announced the first patient has been enrolled in a Phase II trial testing an antibody treatment for Parkinson’s. Reaching […]

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

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News and Trends 5 Jul 2017

Results are in from the First Human Trial of an Universal Cancer Vaccine

BioNTech has published results from the first clinical trial for an mRNA-based individualized vaccine with the potential to target all cancer types. Published in Nature, the results from the first trial in humans with a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine hint that BioNTech is on a promising track towards the development of a universal cancer vaccine. All […]

July 5, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 5 Jul 2017

Galapagos and Gilead Launch the Fifth New Trial for Filgotinib this Year

With the addition of uveitis, Galapagos and Gilead are raising to 10 the number of indications in filgotinib’s clinical pipeline. Galapagos and Gilead clearly have big expectations for filgotinib. The small molecule is already in Phase III for rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The team is now launching a new Phase II trial in […]

July 5, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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Novartis largely dodged deaths from its CAR-T therapy, but FDA still has safety concerns

You can buy DNA on Amazon, thanks to this Biotech Accelerator

Swiss Biotech Starts Phase II Trial to Treat Motor Symptoms of Parkinson’s

Danish Diabetes Biotech Shoots for a €75M IPO in the US Nasdaq

Sanofi and US Partner Launch Phase III Trial in Hemophilia with RNAi

This tech not only flags but also identifies and quantifies HCP contaminants

Memories Encoded in DNA and Biological Reliques

French Mobile Diabetes Firm gets €17.5M to Build an Artificial Pancreas

Better than CRISPR? New Genetic Analysis Method ropes in Long-Read DNA Cloning

Roche and Ireland’s Biggest Biopharma Take Their Parkinson’s Antibody to Phase II

Results are in from the First Human Trial of an Universal Cancer Vaccine

Galapagos and Gilead Launch the Fifth New Trial for Filgotinib this Year

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