Dani Bancroft, Author at Labiotech.eu

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Former Editor, now flitting back and forth as a freelancer. Originally from London and studied Zoology at the University of Reading, UK. Previous work includes having written for The Spark University Newspaper and the Wellcome Trust.

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News and Trends 5 Nov 2015

Living Buildings ‘Self-Heal’ in the UK with Calcium Carbonate Secreting Bacteria

Using Biotech to make living, self-sustaining buildings is a new level of innovation which could revolutionize construction engineering. The ‘Materials For Life‘ Project in Wales (UK) is literally producing stones which self-repair and resist erosion! The University of Cardiff (Wales) leads a team with the University of Bath (SW England) and the University of Cambridge […]

November 5, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 5 Nov 2015

German Bioinformatics Start-Up wants to Change Studies of GMO Crops

High-Tech Grüenderfonds (HTGF) has invested in a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and University of Tübingen. Computomics’ has a pioneering agricultural project involving next generation sequencing (NGS) of GMO crops. Computomics is the biotech which has caught HTGF’s interest. Based in Tübingen (Germany), this bio-informatics start-up tackle genomic analysis of agricultural […]

November 5, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 4 Nov 2015

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

Sanofi is now the latest Biotech lining up to partner with BioNTech from Mainz (Germany), for license of their mRNA Immuno-oncology platform in a€1.37Bn long-term development deal. Novel mRNA targets in Immuno-onology is a top-shelf cancer R&D area, with Germany’s CureVac also attracting another €100M yesterday for their mRNA platform (which targets lung and prostate […]

November 4, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 3 Nov 2015

€100 Million Investment Round Prepares CureVac For Vaccine Expansion

“The RNA People” at CureVac in Tübingen (Germany) have a new €100M investment into their RNA platform, which has prophylactic purposes for common viruses, pipeline candidates for prostate cancer, lung cancer and research into vaccines for HIV, Tuborculosis and Rabies. Indeed, the financial success surrounding their mRNA work has been startlingly impressive, with the EU […]

November 3, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 2 Nov 2015

The French Scientist Who Also ‘Discovered’ CRISPR is Finally Recognized with a Prize too

So, we all know the CRISPR Success story with Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna, who have received multiple awards and constant celebration of their pioneering work in 2012. However, what about the guy who really first described the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism all the way back in 2007? Finally, he gets some recognition too. Senior DuPont scientist […]

November 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Oct 2015

Purple GMO Tomatoes are Growing Medicines in the UK

Meet the purple tomatoes which produce as much Revervesterol in a single fruit as 50 bottles of wine, and as much anti-breast cancer chemical as 2.5Kg of Tofu! The John Innes Centre in Norwich (East England) have engineered these tomato plants to produce larger amounts of these health-related compounds. With funding from the Biotechnology and […]

October 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

Naughty Novartis…US Department of Justice Fines them $390M – Again!

Being a multi-billion international Pharmaceutical giant does not protect you from the Law…and in my best American accent “Justice WILL be served” (and bang! goes the gavel). Novartis gets called out on their dodgy sales boosting techniques again down the US Federal court. Novartis has been caught out serving Pharmacists and Doctors under the table […]

October 29, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

Cellectis UCART Milestone: One step closer to a Universal CAR-T Therapy for Blood Cancer

Cellectis is a leader in immuno-oncology CAR-T therapies from France, which might revolutionise cancer treatments. Now, the next step in the CAR-T campaign is to step away from personalised (autologous) therapies, which are time-consuming and expensive, to instead produce an allogenic version available to all. So, what is CAR-T? You can read a more in-depth […]

October 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 29 Oct 2015

The NeoFood Project: A Basque Coastal Hunt for Algae which produce Essential Fatty Acids

The Neofood project from the Basque Country (Spain) is searching for novel Oceanic strains of algae in salt-marshes around the coast, specifically those that naturally produce essential fatty acids. These algae will serve as an alternative to fish oils for Omega-3 food supplements. A syndicate of Agricultural focused researchers are on the hunt for more […]

October 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome

We still haven’t fully sequenced the domestic wheat genome! Now the US Dragen chip has the answer for speedy whole-genome analysis, which The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in England will test out for UK food-security research. Dragen is a Bio-IT platform processing chip which has clinical pipelines for many areas in research, including the Microbiome, […]

October 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

The Cambridge Gene-Editing Biotech Success Story: Horizon Discovery is Doubling in Size with new HQ

Horizon Discovery is a gene-editing tools specialist with various biotech partnerships over their cell-line catalogues. A UK expansion for Horizon is now underway, with the launch of a new genomics eCommerce webshop and the expansion of their headquarters. Horizon Discovery provides personalized translational medicine products and services, such as bespoke cell-lines for drug discovery and […]

October 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

Fighting Infection with a Pioneering Arsenal of Med-Tech Inventions from the UK

Bath, in South West England, has a lot more besides its historic beauty…The Jenkins Chemistry lab at the University of Bath has a fair few innovative solutions to the problem of infectious disease detection. Their latest design is a burns dressing which glows when a pathogenic biofilm is detected (as part of the Bacteriosafe Project) […]

October 28, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Articles by Dani Bancroft

Living Buildings ‘Self-Heal’ in the UK with Calcium Carbonate Secreting Bacteria

German Bioinformatics Start-Up wants to Change Studies of GMO Crops

€1.37Bn Deal for Sanofi with Germany’s Fastest Growing mRNA Cancer Biotech

€100 Million Investment Round Prepares CureVac For Vaccine Expansion

The French Scientist Who Also ‘Discovered’ CRISPR is Finally Recognized with a Prize too

Purple GMO Tomatoes are Growing Medicines in the UK

Naughty Novartis…US Department of Justice Fines them $390M – Again!

Cellectis UCART Milestone: One step closer to a Universal CAR-T Therapy for Blood Cancer

The NeoFood Project: A Basque Coastal Hunt for Algae which produce Essential Fatty Acids

Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome

The Cambridge Gene-Editing Biotech Success Story: Horizon Discovery is Doubling in Size with new HQ

Fighting Infection with a Pioneering Arsenal of Med-Tech Inventions from the UK

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