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News and Trends 4 Jan 2016

Biotech and €6M to Save Orangutans? How a Yeast Alternative to Palm Oil could Stop Deforestation

Armed with a €6M Industry Grant, the Universities of Bath and York in the UK are researching how Yeast could provide a Palm-Oil alternative and save our Great Apes from deforestation… Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms – primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis. However, although hugely […]

January 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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News and Trends 4 Jan 2016

Cellectis Full-Steam Ahead with UCART19 Trial for Leukemia in the UK

So it begins…dubbed the ‘Miracle Cure’ for Blood Cancer, UCART19 is now set to begin its journey to Human trials in the UK. Just 2 days before Christmas, the French billion euro Biotech, Cellectis, submitted a clinical trial application to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Specifically, the request was to approve initiation […]

January 4, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 22 Dec 2015

Serious Genetic Diseases have a New CRISPR Dream Duo Venture worth in Excess of €275M

Blood disorders, blindness and congenital heart disease? The new Bayer Life Science Center (BLSC) in Germany and CRISPR Therapeutics (Switzerland) have now created a joint Venture to tackle cures for these rare genetic defects. CRISPR Therapeutics will contribute its proprietary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology and intellectual property, while Bayer will make available its protein engineering expertise […]

December 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 22 Dec 2015

Dutch Organ-on-Chip Biotech Hauls in €1.5M Funding from Pharma Syndicate in Project Against Animal Testing

Mimetas from Leiden (NL) has now been financed to develop an Organ-on-Chip (tissue model) to specifically test Neurotoxicity, as a piece of medtech to help clinical trials move away from Animal testing… Organs-on-Chips are microfluidic tissue models which mimic basic organ-to-organ coupling. Developed with the aim of simulating ADMET testing and drug screening in vitro, […]

December 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 21 Dec 2015

Here’s my Chat with the CBO of Immunocore, the Only EU Biotech to have ever raised €300M in one Round

Last Thursday at Genesis in London, I had the chance to meet with Eva-Lotta Allan, CBO of Immunocore (and previously from Ablynx). After a last-minute confirmation before the event, we came to meet and it helped me understand why Immunocore could be the next Biotech success-story in Europe… I’m sure you’ve heard of Immunocore this year. This […]

December 21, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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News and Trends 11 Dec 2015

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

London’s Desktop Genetics and their remote CRISPR and digital genetics platform has caught the eye of US Illumina – the US Competitor to German Giant QIAGEN in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)… Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) is an online service that researchers can use to design CRISPR gene editing experiments, purchase reagents and find commercial entities to […]

December 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 10 Dec 2015

A New Vaccine Against Pneumonia and Meningitis Reaches Human Trials..

Pneumonia, Meningitis and Sepsis: All these potentially fatal infections could one day be vaccinated against with Cambridge’s ImmBio and their Pneumococcal vaccine, which has now started safety & tolerability trials in the UK. ImmBio is based at the Babraham Institute, a unit of the UK’s Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (and in our Listed […]

December 10, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 9 Dec 2015

Here are the 6 Healthcare Disruptors We met in Paris

How can and will Healthcare be disrupted? This is an important question addressed at an event on Differential Medicine at ‘TheFamily‘ VC in Paris. On the 3rd and 4th December, I attended the Differential Medicine conference in Paris at the ‘The Family‘ HQ (an entrepreneurial VC). Here I give an overview of some of the […]

December 9, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

News and Trends 4 Dec 2015

Dutch Seed-Enhancer Acquired for €155M by UK Chemical Giant

Croda International is reinforcing its agri-business department with the €155M-acquisition of Incotec. The chemical producer expanded this way its biological portfolio making a move into the market for additives to improve the performance of crop seeds. This British chemical manufacturer is the world’s second-largest maker of cosmetic ingredients, although its business is not restricted to […]

December 4, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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News and Trends 2 Dec 2015

Crops Successfully Edited with CRISPR have no Transgenes! Is this Still GMO?

The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool is allowing rapid scientific advances in many fields, including human health. Now it has been shown that crop research can also benefit the fight for improved Food Security. Research at the John Innes Centre and the Sainsbury Lab (UK) have successfully edited crops so that future generations of these veggies have […]

December 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 2 Dec 2015

An Imperial College Based Start-Up Has Raised €27M in Series A for a Blood Cancer Drug

Kesios is a start-up Biotech based in London (UK) which has raised over €27M in a Series A funding round for its pipeline targeting the fight against multiple myeloma. A syndicate of UK investors has jumped at the chance to fund this cancer-fighting biotech, whose nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB)signal pathway targeting pipeline has promise […]

December 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 30 Nov 2015

Heptares’ G-Protein StaR Platform has now Hooked Pfizer in a Billion Euro Deal

Heptares Therapeutics from the UK has landed Pfizer in a huge potential $1.9Bn deal for their G-protein receptor platform. Heptares Therapeutics was founded by Fiona Marshall (one of our Top 10 UK Women in Biotech), who now serves as a CSO to Japanese Big boss Sosei, which wholly acquired Heptares earlier this year in a […]

November 30, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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Biotech and €6M to Save Orangutans? How a Yeast Alternative to Palm Oil could Stop Deforestation

Cellectis Full-Steam Ahead with UCART19 Trial for Leukemia in the UK

Serious Genetic Diseases have a New CRISPR Dream Duo Venture worth in Excess of €275M

Dutch Organ-on-Chip Biotech Hauls in €1.5M Funding from Pharma Syndicate in Project Against Animal Testing

Here’s my Chat with the CBO of Immunocore, the Only EU Biotech to have ever raised €300M in one Round

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

A New Vaccine Against Pneumonia and Meningitis Reaches Human Trials..

Here are the 6 Healthcare Disruptors We met in Paris

Dutch Seed-Enhancer Acquired for €155M by UK Chemical Giant

Crops Successfully Edited with CRISPR have no Transgenes! Is this Still GMO?

An Imperial College Based Start-Up Has Raised €27M in Series A for a Blood Cancer Drug

Heptares’ G-Protein StaR Platform has now Hooked Pfizer in a Billion Euro Deal

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