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At the EU Council (10-11 December), agriculture ministers did not reach the qualified majority required to adopt the adapted version of the EU Commission’s draft regulation on new genomic techniques.

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Sorbonne University spin-out Carthera SA has closed its Series B financing round with an additional investment of €4.5m at €42m to launch clinical trials.
 

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On the occasion of SynbiTECH in London, British Science, Research and Innovation Minister, Andrew Griffith, unveiled a £2bn strategic 10-year plan to foster engineering biology.

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Pfizer and Valneva announced the completion of enrolment in Phase 3 VALOR trial for Lyme borreliosis vaccine candidate VLA15. More then 9,000 participants were enrolled.

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Researchers uncover a potential strategy to target and inhibit the androgen receptor in aggressive prostate cancer by exploiting protein droplets.

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Eligo Bioscience secures $30m in series B funding, advancing its innovative gene-editing solutions targeting diseases linked to bacterial genes within the human microbiome.

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AbbVie buys ImmunoGen in US$10 billion deal, gains access to ADC for ovarian cancer. The ADC space gets hotter and hotter.

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Generative AI protein engineering specialist Cradle NV,  has raised US$24m in a Series A financing round led by Index Ventures w

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British and Italian researchers have demostrated promising results in patients with progressive multiple sclerosis through stem cell transplantation into the brain.

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French Sanofi SA’s second Phase III trial of duplimab demonstrated a 34% reduction in exacerbations and significant lung function improvements.