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News and Trends 9 Sep 2016

How to get Antibiotic free Bioproduction in Biotech with Delphi Genetics

After Vienna, it’s time to jump in the middle of the Paris-Amsterdam-Frankfurt triangle in the BioPark of Brussels South in Belgium. We will meet a company who can answer the problem of antibiotic use in the bacterial strains selection whilst, at the same time, increasing bioproduction yield. Our Biotech of the week, Delphi Genetics. City: Gosselies […]

September 9, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

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News and Trends 1 Jul 2016

Drug-resistant Bacteria should fear Discuva’s antimicrobials

Duty calls on the Island of Queen Elizabeth II…. What will be the future of Biotech in the United Kingdom and in Europe? Last week we did a review to catch up with all the details of #Brexit and this is why we decided to head up to Cambridge, one of the major biotech and research centers in the […]

July 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 20 Jun 2016

This Sepsis Detection Test saves 24h for Faster Treatment

Curetis has received great results for its diagnostic kit. This new technology to detect sepsis is delivering the same results as standard tests, but it’s faster by 24 hours – critical time to deal with life-threatening infections. Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Curetis was the only German biotech to do an IPO in 2015. It did so with a bang, […]

June 20, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 15 Feb 2016

Celebrating the 10th Birthday of this German Infectious Disease Biotech with the CEO

AiCuris is a Biotech company based on the Bayer Life Sciences park in Wuppertal (Germany). It is working on new anti-infective drugs and is a former spin-off of Germany’s biggest Pharma Company. It’s celebrating its 10th birthday this year, which is good reason to interview the CEO… So AiCuris is working on anti-infective drugs for […]

February 15, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 28 Jan 2016

This Young CEO is Making Biotech Popular in France

Biotech is often a touchy subject for conversation, which is not always understood by the general public, and even less appreciated… Xavier Duportet, the 28-year-old French founder of Eligo Bioscience (read Our interview here) was this week on the hugely popular French TV-show Le Petit Journal to talk about Biotech. This program is the most popular such medium […]

January 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 16 Dec 2015

Global NGS Leader’s Influence in European Bioinformatics Field is Spreading Interest in Microbiomics

BioMérieux (France) is a diagnostics tech company which has partnered with the US Bioinformatics Giant Illumina to produce a novel Microbiological genetics sequencing kit: the bioMérieux EpiSeq. BioMérieux is a worldwide leading provider of diagnostic solutions (reagents, instruments, software) which determine the source of disease and contamination to improve patient health and reduce risk of hospital […]

December 16, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Sep 2015

Will bacteriophages solve the antibiotic resistance problem in the EU?

French Pherecydes Pharma has launched the first EU clinical bacteriophage phase I/II trial to fight hospital acquired infections (HAIs) in military hospitals and burn units. In collaboration with two other French biotechs, the Phagoburn project aims to combat the stigma against human bacteriophage therapies in the EU and US in order to battle the oncoming […]

September 15, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 24 Jul 2015

MGB puts a new spin on fighting multi-resistant bacteria

MGB Biopharma wants to tackle multi-resistant bacteria with their newly developed anti-infectives. Its lead candidate, MGB-BP-3 is now entering Phase I. Biotech companies use several approaches when it comes to killing bacteria, especially when these are resistant against antibiotics. In our last news, we have seen, Ferring betting on bacteriophages or ELIGO using CRISPR on this purpose. The Scottish […]

July 24, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 May 2015

Hyglos has a Solution Against Resistant Hospital Germs

Germany-based Hyglos and scientists from the universities of Tübingen, Münster and Munich join forces to develop a phage-based active substance against the dreaded hospital pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Their secret lies in a highly effective protein from bacteria-specific viruses, the so-called bacteriophages, capable of rapidly killing the bacteria, which frequently occur in the nose. Due to the specific action of this […]

May 29, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 26 May 2015

CRISPR-armed Viruses to kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Antibiotics abuse is creating a whole new generation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. As the tolerance to antibiotics grows, the battle against bacteria is getting harder and becoming a public issue. However, Humans are not the only ones trying to fight bacteria. Some viruses, the phages, have been doing it for millenniums. Udi Qimron and his team […]

May 26, 2015 - 2 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

News and Trends 22 Jan 2015

Novabiotics Tackles Antibiotic Resistance by Raising €6,5M Euros

NovaBiotics Ltd has raised €6,5M for priority clinical stage first-in-class antimicrobial therapeutics assets. The private placement with Woodford Investment Management LLP was arranged by Shore Capital as financial adviser and broker to the company. NovaBiotics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the design and development of first-in-class anti-infectives for difficult-to-treat, medically unmet diseases. NovaBiotics has spent more than 10 […]

January 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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How to get Antibiotic free Bioproduction in Biotech with Delphi Genetics

Drug-resistant Bacteria should fear Discuva’s antimicrobials

This Sepsis Detection Test saves 24h for Faster Treatment

Celebrating the 10th Birthday of this German Infectious Disease Biotech with the CEO

This Young CEO is Making Biotech Popular in France

Global NGS Leader’s Influence in European Bioinformatics Field is Spreading Interest in Microbiomics

Will bacteriophages solve the antibiotic resistance problem in the EU?

MGB puts a new spin on fighting multi-resistant bacteria

Hyglos has a Solution Against Resistant Hospital Germs

CRISPR-armed Viruses to kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Back to Middle Age to re-discover some medicinal treatments

Novabiotics Tackles Antibiotic Resistance by Raising €6,5M Euros

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