Science, www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn8662Chinese researchers headed by Prof. Dr. Hongbing Deng from Wuhan University report they were able to absorb up to 99.9% of microplastics in water, which could help solve one of the most pressing environmental problems.
Cradle.bioThe Dutch-Swiss company with operations also in Zurich, Switzerland, has raised US$73m in a Series B and will continue to expand its AI research, sales, and operations teams. The new announcement comes around a year after raising €21.92m in a Series A funding round.
Roche, Herzog&De MeuronGenentech, the US arm of Swiss-based Roche AG, plans to acquire its long-time partner in allogeneic CAR-T blood cancer and gene therapies, Poseida Therapeutics Inc, for up to US$1.5bn.
PharmaMar SAThe General Court of the EU orders the European Commission to pay the costs in the case of Aplidin® against the Spanish company PharmaMar SA, in which an EU marketing authorisation was not granted due to conflict-of-interests within the CHMP of the European Medicines Agency.
EppendorfWe live in an era of industrial transformation with the implementation of digital tools to handle increasing data amounts, as well as automation to facilitate workflows. Of course, this development does not stop at the bioprocess industry. Digital tools offer the possibility to enhance working efficiency and monitor your bioreactor culture without the need to be in the lab. Introducing BioNsight® cloud, a true cloud-based software solution for bioprocess monitoring and analysis, fully integrated into the Eppendorf bioprocess control software DASware® control 6.
NOD-Proteindesign.Andreas Heddergott/TUM.jpgResearcher from China, Germany and the US have developed a method for designing large new proteins with pre-defined properties in the lab using Alphafold2.
CertestCircio Holding ASA has inked a collaboration with Certest Biotec, SL to find and test circVec LNP-formulations to deliver its circular RNA therapeutics to target tissues for gene therapies.
ConsiliumA dispute is brewing in Europe over climate-friendly protein production in fermenters between EU member states that are in favour of or against protein production independent of agricultural land. Germany, Denmark and supporters called on the EU Commission to formulate a European protein strategy triggering protests from farmers.
Belgian ADC specialist ATB Therapeutics BV has kicked off with €54m from EQT Life Sciences and MRL Ventures Fun to push its payload technology towards clinical development.
Innate Pharma SAInnate Pharma SA has presented promising preclinical data of its tetraspecific antibody-based B and NK cell engager IPH6501, a novel approach to treat B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL).