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A print magazine focussing on start-ups in the life sciences! Like a catalyst, it aims to promote young companies in the life sciences with the right impulses.

Misfolded protein accumulation and evidence of ISR activationis present in multiple neurological conditions. © BMS and Hetz et al, Nat Rev – Neur 2017

Evotec SE has reached a predefined milestone worth €20m in the CRO’s partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS).

CEO Dr Peter Sondermann © Tacalyx GmbH

Glycan target specialist Tacalyx GmbH expands its seed financing to €14m to advance its anti-TACA cancer therapies.

PAS amd CD3 staining of renal tissue at day 10 (scale bars, 10 μm). © Leon U. B. Enk

Researchers at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf have laid the foundation to screen for molecules that shift Th17 cells from proinflammatory or immune-dampening mode.
 

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GSK takes over Elsie Biotechnologies in US$50m deal to boost its oligonucleotide-based drug platform and pipeline.

Lu 177-dotatate (pink and orange) binds to somatostatin receptors (green) on neuroendocrine tumor cells (blue) and kills the cells through the release of radioactive  particles.@ NCI. Credit: Adapted from Frontiers in Oncology. January 2019. Front. Oncol. doi: 10.3389/fonc.201800663

ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE has raised €188m ito boost radiopharma pipeline, contract manufacturing cpacity, and launch ITM-11.

Quantro used thiol(SH)-linked alkylation for the metabolic sequencing of RNA (SLAM seq), an orthogonal-chemistry-based RNA sequencing technology that detects 4-thiouridine (s4U) incorporation in RNA species at single-nucleotide resolution, to measure RNA-polymerase-II-dependent gene expression dynamics. © QUANTRO Therapeutics GmbH

Viennese biotech QUANTRO Therapeutics identifies small molecule targeting an onkogenic transcription factor in Boehringer Ingelheim collab.

Picture: SynaptixBio

 At the end of May, Dr Uwe Meya took over as Chief Medical Officer at Oxford-based SynaptixBio.

DefiniGEN's hepatocyte NAFLD cell_model. © DefiniGEN' Ltd

DefiniGEN Ltd., and Atelerix Ltd. have successfully shipped in vitro liver models from the UK to the US without freezing them thus preventing cell damage and loss-of function.

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440 participants discussed the defossilisation of the chemical and materials industry through biomass, CO2 and recycling. The audience voted for the “Renewable Material of the Year 2024”: Acetic acid from CO2 by Danish start-up Again wins 1st price.