Paris-based Abivax SA has cashed in €49.2m in an oversubscribed financing with top-tier US and European biotech investors.

BioEcho Life Science Inc.'s headquarters. © BioEcho

German nucleic acid extraction specialist BioEcho Life Sciences has opened a subsidiary in Boston to supply the huge US-american market. 

 

Fluorescent microscopy image of the new cells (extraembryonic mesoderm cells) and placenta progenitor stem cells. The new cells are marked in red, and cells corresponding to placental stem cells are shown in green. The DNA (nucleus) of each cell is shown in blue.
© Amitesh Panda (KU Leuven)

Researchers from KU Leuven for the first time have produced human cells able to mimic the molecular mechanisms of early human embryogenesis and related defects.