Danish sustainable crop protection company, BioPhero AS, has raised $17m in Series A funding led by DCVC Bio.

German researchers have presented a new method to assess on-target and off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas nucleases or TALENs.

EMA’s human medicines committee has started a rolling review of Sputnik V, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology.

Although innovative biotechnologies are developed continuously, the method of nucleic acid extraction stayed unchanged for several decades. The classical bind-wash-elute approach seemed sufficient, but the COVID-19 pandemic uncovered the need for a new technique to be able to process multiple samples fast and in parallel. BioEcho developed a completely new technology, which simplifies and speeds up the process of RNA extraction dramatically.

Together with star investor Kleiner Perkins, Origenis GmbH, a privately held German biopharmaceutical company, successfully establishes its new business model for the clinical development of its neuroprotective drug pipeline. The formation and financing of Neuron23 Inc. was announced in South San Francisco.

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) is realizing one of the first large-scale plants in Europe to use innovative co-processing to produce carbon-neutral fuels.

Kurma Parnters and France‘e investment bank have launched a €50m project named Argobio that is aimed at identifiying the most genious biotech ideas and spin out companies.

British Oxular Ltd has raised $37m in a financing round led by Forbion Parners and co-financed by IP Group, NeoMed, and V-Bio Ventures to push its pipeline.

The European Commission is set to fund ten "European Partnerships" partnered with different industries with €10bn.

Cultured meat producer MosaMeat BV has announced the third and final closing of its Series B round raising US$85m.