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News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

Gut microbiota to be harnessed as a tool to diagnose diseases

A recent study at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland compared the gut microbiota and gut-derived metabolites between healthy controls and individuals with fatty liver. The results revealed that certain microbial metabolites are associated with liver fat content. The fact that the gut microbiota associates with many diseases has raised the hope that they could […]

March 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

Intracellular “smoke detector” discovery has skin disease therapy implications

A study by the University of Bonn in Germany could lead to therapies against skin and intestinal diseases in the medium term.Researchers at the universities of Bonn and Singapore have discovered a new intracellular “smoke detector.” The sensor warns of damage to the mitochondria – the microscopic power plants that supply the cell with energy. […]

March 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

LIfT BioSciences has announced what it says are exciting preclinical data demonstrating that its immunomodulatory alpha neutrophil product (IMANp) possesses both cytotoxic and immunomodulatory functionalities. The company said these are commonly cited by medical professionals as being critical for potentially curing solid tumors in patients. LIfT BioSciences said this involved learning from the experience of other […]

March 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Mar 2023

Flare Therapeutics sees $123M oncology boost

Flare Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company targeting transcription factors to discover precision medicines for cancer and other diseases, has announced a $123 million Series B financing. The financing was co-led by GordonMD Global Investments LP and Pfizer Ventures, with participation from existing investors Boxer Capital, Casdin Capital, Eventide Asset Management, Invus Financial Advisors, Nextech Invest […]

March 23, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Mar 2023

Etana secures funding for oncology pipeline

PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana), an Indonesian biopharmaceutical company, has secured a new round of investment led by DEG followed by Yunfeng Capital, HighLight Capital and East Ventures. The round of financing will be used for further strengthening PT Etana Biotechnologies’ pipeline and portfolio especially in oncology. Currently, PT Etana Biotechnologies focuses on local biopharmaceutical production […]

March 21, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Mar 2023

Karuna Therapeutics sees positive schizophrenia trial results

Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. has announced positive topline results from its phase 3 EMERGENT-3 trial evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of its lead investigational therapy, KarXT (xanomeline-trospium) in adults with schizophrenia. The trial met its primary endpoint, with KarXT demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically meaningful 8.4-point reduction in positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) […]

March 21, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Mar 2023

Campbell Neurosciences creates saliva-based test for suicidal thoughts

Therapeutic Solutions International (TSOI) has announced that its spin-off biotech company, Campbell Neurosciences, Inc., obtained successful validation of its suicidal ideation predictive test using a saliva-based system. Previously, the company reported successful stratification of suicidal tendencies using a proprietary blood-based biomarker. In the trial, the company previously assessed levels of the inflammatory marker in 10 […]

March 21, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 20 Mar 2023

SpyBiotech receives more than $4 million to develop vaccine platform

UK-based SpyBiotech has received a grant of more than $4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build its SpyVector platform for the development of a cross-protective coronavirus vaccine. The platform, which is based on recombinant adenovirus – a viral vector which can induce cellular immunity – enables a covalent decoration with the […]

March 20, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

67% five-year survival rate in glioblastoma therapy, according to CANbridge Pharmaceuticals study

CANbridge Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that its therapy for glioblastoma has shown a 67% survival rate at five years, three years after the clinical trials ended. Four out of nine of the patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) who were part of the clinical study were reported to be alive three years after the […]

March 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

Likang gets trial ok for China’s first personalized cancer vaccine

Likang Life Sciences has received implied approval for the clinical trial of its personalized neoantigen-targeted vaccine for advanced solid tumors, LK101 injection. This is the first personalized neoantigen vaccine and mRNA editing product approved by China’s Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to enter the clinical stage. Likang submitted […]

March 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

Purple Biotech sees positive results from cancer study

Purple Biotech Ltd. has released new results from exploratory analyses conducted as part of a phase 1 dose escalation study that assessed the safety and tolerability of nivolumab and CM24, which is a monoclonal antibody. Purple Biotech is a clinical-stage company developing first-in-class therapies that harness the tumor microenvironment (TME) to overcome tumor immune evasion […]

March 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Mar 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 38: Hello Tomorrow Global Summit

The Hello Tomorrow Global Summit took place in Paris last week (March 8-10), and we feature interviews with four of the participants. Our guests this week are: FreezeM CEO and co-founder, Dr. Yuval Gilad; Allogenica CEO and co-founder Inna Menkova; George Frodsham, founder and CEO of MediSieve; and Poulami Chaudhuri, co-founder, and CEO of Helex […]

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Gut microbiota to be harnessed as a tool to diagnose diseases

Intracellular “smoke detector” discovery has skin disease therapy implications

LIfT BioSciences hails breakthrough data for treating solid tumors

Flare Therapeutics sees $123M oncology boost

Etana secures funding for oncology pipeline

Karuna Therapeutics sees positive schizophrenia trial results

Campbell Neurosciences creates saliva-based test for suicidal thoughts

SpyBiotech receives more than $4 million to develop vaccine platform

67% five-year survival rate in glioblastoma therapy, according to CANbridge Pharmaceuticals study

Likang gets trial ok for China’s first personalized cancer vaccine

Purple Biotech sees positive results from cancer study

Beyond Biotech podcast 38: Hello Tomorrow Global Summit

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