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News and Trends 6 May 2015

Kymab secures €79.8 Million to develop its Antibody-Generating technology

British Kymab raised an additional €44.4M to its already very successful Series B financing. The cash was courtesy of Woodford Patient Capital Trust and Malin Corporation, which joined the Wellcome Trust and the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation, the previous investors. The British biotech, a monoclonal antibody biopharmaceutical company, successfully raised an additional €44.4M to complete a […]

May 6, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 5 May 2015

Natural Killer therapies for Cancer: a Fast-Evolving field

Natural killers are an emerging approach to fight inflammatory diseases and cancer. These immune actors, that specifically regulate the activity of the immune system, are attracting the attention of several small startups and more than a few big Pharmas. The immune system includes a set of body defenses, that fight foreign forms. But external bodies aren’t […]

May 5, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 4 May 2015

Sygnis on the way to conquer the UK Life Sciences market

Sygnis signed a distribution agreement with Cambridge Bioscience for the commercialization of its proprietary product portfolio in the UK and Ireland. This is a significant expansion of product roll-out into one of the most important life science markets in Europe. Under the terms and conditions of the agreement, Cambridge Bioscience will promote, market, sell and […]

May 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Apr 2015

Desktop Genetics launches a new Gene Editing Platform

Desktop Genetics has just launched the DeskGen Platform for gene editing. It combines elements of the Company’s earlier tools, and allows researchers to design genome editing vectors and cloning strategies optimized to their own laboratories and experimental needs. The DeskGen platform gives life scientists the power to expertly design optimized genome editing experiments in any cell […]

April 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 22 Apr 2015

Vaccines against Parasites, on the Horizon with XstalBio

XstalBio has commenced work on an €9.3M EU Funded Horizon 2020 project to develop vaccines that protect cattle, sheep and poultry, against infection by parasites. The 4 year “PARAGONE” collaboration involves 17 partners from Europe, Uruguay and China and will aim to move several candidate vaccines from the laboratory into practical field trials. XstalBio, as […]

April 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 18 Apr 2015

Another Partnership between Immunocore and MedImmune against Skin Cancer

Immunocore Limited, a world-leading biotechnology company developing novel biological drugs to treat cancer and other diseases, and MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca have just entered into a second effective collaboration for a potential skin cancer treatment. It concerns melanoma which is a form of skin cancer that accounts for less than five per cent of […]

April 18, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 16 Apr 2015

The first-in-human Phase I trial for a treatment against glaucoma core

Isarna Therapeutics has initiated Phase I clinical trial with ISTH0036, an antisense oligonucleotide selectively targeting transforming growth factor beta (TGF-ß2) to treat advanced glaucoma. This first-in-human Phase I trial, conducted at the University Hospitals of Mainz and Tuebingen, Germany, is designed to evaluate the safety and long-term tolerability of ISTH0036 in patients with advanced glaucoma […]

April 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 16 Apr 2015

flash4science, the life science private shopping club

Any scientist knows how expensive purchasing new equipment can be. However, one platform, flash4Science, in particular caught our attention. The company located in Germany has set itself an interesting challenge as it tries to combine life sciences and private shopping together. Two domains, which, on paper, seem completely incompatible! It is the world’s first biotech […]

April 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexandre Lowrey

News and Trends 15 Apr 2015

AstraZeneca avoided a public crisis of its marketed diabetes treatment

Last week, FDA expressed its concerns about AstraZeneca’s treatment for type 2 diabetes, Onglyza. According to Reuters, FDA found “significant or near significant” increase of death risk. However, the agency also admits that the cause of death is multifactorial and could not be directly related to AstraZeneca’s treatment. The drug was developed as a result […]

April 15, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 13 Apr 2015

Humabs and MedImmune partnership to develop an Influenza A treatment

Medimmune starts phase I clinical trial to investigate an antibody developed under a collaboration with Humabs BioMed for the treatment of influenza A. The novel antibody developed through Humabs’ Cellclone technology will be investigated a trial being conducted by MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca. The investigational antibody, which has broad influenza-neutralizing […]

April 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 7 Apr 2015

Open Bionics, lending a 3D-Printed helping hand

Little could the young Joel Gibbard have ever imagined that those Meccano games he once used to play with as a child, would one day lead him to become Britain’s Design Engineer of the Year amongst other prestigious awards. Open Bionics, the Bristol-based company he founded, aims at providing low-cost robotic hands. I got to […]

April 7, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 3 Apr 2015

Back to Middle Age to re-discover some medicinal treatments

The long medieval period extends in the West over nearly a millennium and gradually enriched its knowledge in the medical field. Admired by the Greeks, Egyptian medicine made reference in Western medicine for millennia. Medical papyri mention over seven hundred healing substances, plant, animal, mineral, composing over a thousand remedies often associated with incantations to […]

April 3, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Cédric Brock

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Kymab secures €79.8 Million to develop its Antibody-Generating technology

Natural Killer therapies for Cancer: a Fast-Evolving field

Sygnis on the way to conquer the UK Life Sciences market

Desktop Genetics launches a new Gene Editing Platform

Vaccines against Parasites, on the Horizon with XstalBio

Another Partnership between Immunocore and MedImmune against Skin Cancer

The first-in-human Phase I trial for a treatment against glaucoma core

flash4science, the life science private shopping club

AstraZeneca avoided a public crisis of its marketed diabetes treatment

Humabs and MedImmune partnership to develop an Influenza A treatment

Open Bionics, lending a 3D-Printed helping hand

Back to Middle Age to re-discover some medicinal treatments

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