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Foodtech startup Standing Ovation SA has closed an oversubscribed €12m Series A financing round led by Astanor Ventures. 

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Oslo-based Lytix Biopharma has a new Chief Business Officer. Stephen Worsley has started at the Norwegian immune-oncology company at the beginning of September.

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HeartBeat.bio and Molecular Devices announce collaboration to automate and scale cardiac organoids for high-throughput drug discovery screening

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Dutch researchers report they could detect a COVID-19 infection with better sensitivity than antigen tests by a mobile app that uses AI to analyse voice recordings.

Bone marrow aspirate showing acute myeloid leukemia. Several blasts have Auer rods (see arrow). © VashiDonsk/Wikipedia

Dutch Pleco Therapeutics BV has raised €17.3m in a Series A financing to push its lead candidate in acute myeloid leukaemia to market approval.

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Synaffix B.V. and Emergence Therapeutics AG have entered into a licensing agreement of up to $360m to find ADCs directed against target molecules from Emergence.

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Finance Expert Pascal Bricout strengthens French Carbios as Chief of Strategy; Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.

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.
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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.