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News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

New EU project looks to unlock the potential of genomics

The European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project kicked off today in Brussels, Belgium. The new €40 million ($41.4 million) GDI project, coordinated by ELIXIR, is jointly funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme and through co-funding from participating Member States. In the area of health, the Digital Europe Programme aims to support […]

November 17, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

Startup Cradle raises $5.4M to design protein machines and cell factories with AI

Cradle, a Dutch startup, has received €5.5 million ($5.4 million) in seed funding to further help scientists design and program proteins to produce a wide variety of everyday products including milk and meat. Cradle uses synthetic biology, adapting the genes of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi, to create ‘cell factories’ that use programmable proteins […]

November 17, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

Astellas meets primary endpoint in gastric cancer study

Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced positive topline results from its phase 3 SPOTLIGHT clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab in combination with mFOLFOX6 (a combination regimen that includes oxaliplatin, leucovorin and fluorouracil). Zolbetuximab is an investigational first-in-class monoclonal antibody targeting Claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2), for the first-line treatment of patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative, […]

November 17, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

VISEN growth hormone deficiency trial results announced

VISEN Pharmaceuticals has published detailed clinical data from its pivotal phase 3 study of lonapegsomatropin, a long-acting prodrug of unmodified somatropin being investigated as a once-weekly injection in children with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in China. The data showed that lonapegsomatropin demonstrated an annualized height velocity (AHV) of 10.66 cm/year compared to 9.75 cm/year for […]

November 17, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

FundaMental Pharma launches with €10M to advance first-in-class neuroprotectant

FundaMental Pharma GmbH, a preclinical neuroscience company spun out of Heidelberg University in Germany, has launched with €10 million ($10.4 million) in seed financing. The funding was led by BioGeneration Ventures (BGV) and Thuja Capital, with participation from other investors, including coparion and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). Built on the research of Hilmar Bading and Jing […]

November 17, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 17 Nov 2022

New mitochondria study could pave way for disease treatments

Mitochondria, the ‘powerhouses of the cell,’ are important cellular structures that are vital for their role of generating energy. They constantly fuse together and split apart. They contain a small amount of genetic information, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The mtDNA, organized into dot-like structures called nucleoids, also moves around inside the mitochondria. The method of distribution […]

November 17, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Discovery Park celebrates 10 years and plans to double jobs over the next decade

Plans to grow and double the number of people employed at Discovery Park, the UK’s biggest science and innovation center have been announced. The team behind its success shared the news as they celebrate a decade of delivering jobs and investment in the South East. Discovery Park marked the milestone by announcing its plans for […]

November 16, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Mineralys has positive topline results from trial evaluating treatment of hypertension

U.S.-based Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc., announced today (November 16) topline results from its phase 2 Target-HTN trial in individuals with uncontrolled and resistant hypertension. MLS-101, a highly selective investigational aldosterone synthase inhibitor, at doses of 50 mg and 100 mg once daily, met its primary endpoint with statistically significant and clinically meaningful reduction in systolic blood […]

November 16, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Foodtech company, Wilk, creates first cultured milk fat, cell-based yogurt

Israeli company, Wilk, has today (November 16) announced the successful development of the world’s first yogurt developed with cell-cultured milk fat. The company is a developer of cell-cultured human and animal milk and milk components and this hybrid product has been validated by external laboratories, which Wilk says confirms it meets the necessary chemical and […]

November 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Bio-Rad introduces pioneer antibody discovery platform for therapeutic development

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. yesterday (November 15) announced the launch of its Pioneer Platform, a new antibody discovery service specifically designed to develop biologic candidates. The Pioneer Platform features a phage display library engineered to include more than 200 billion unique sequences and capable of identifying high-affinity antibody candidates using Bio-Rad’s newly developed SpyDisplay selection technology. […]

November 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Ascletis’ monkeypox tablet receives IND approval from the FDA

A drug to treat monkeypox from Ascletis Pharma has had its investigational new drug (IND) application approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA made its decision based on the available data, which was 800 mg ASC10 taken twice a day, and Ascletis can now go ahead with a phase 1b clinical […]

November 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Enzymes could be key to understanding ‘origin of DNA errors’

Enzymes, critical to controlling how cells replicate in the human body, could be the very ingredient that encourages DNA to spontaneously mutate – causing potentially permanent genetic errors, according to new research from the University of Surrey in the U.K. Using quantum chemical calculations, researchers from Surrey’s Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre have found that […]

November 16, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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New EU project looks to unlock the potential of genomics

Startup Cradle raises $5.4M to design protein machines and cell factories with AI

Astellas meets primary endpoint in gastric cancer study

VISEN growth hormone deficiency trial results announced

FundaMental Pharma launches with €10M to advance first-in-class neuroprotectant

New mitochondria study could pave way for disease treatments

Discovery Park celebrates 10 years and plans to double jobs over the next decade

Mineralys has positive topline results from trial evaluating treatment of hypertension

Foodtech company, Wilk, creates first cultured milk fat, cell-based yogurt

Bio-Rad introduces pioneer antibody discovery platform for therapeutic development

Ascletis’ monkeypox tablet receives IND approval from the FDA

Enzymes could be key to understanding ‘origin of DNA errors’

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