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Despite the threat of a looming climate catastrophe, low oil prices and giant industrial conglomerates addicted to fossil resources continue to stifle industrial biotechnology products and innovation. The European Biotechnology Network is now providing a foot up for companies that want to help themselves by launching three very different projects aimed at pushing the bioeconomy forward.
Mutabilis and IBT Vaccines have successfully bagged US$12m from the Novo Holdings REPAIR Impact Fund.
Critical care experts have presented data supporting the thesis that three specific pathways are the cause for about 90% of sepsis mortality.
Antabio SAS has got a US-$4.4m tranche from CARB-X to advance preclinical development of its P. aeruginosa treatment in Cystic Fibrosis patients
Swedish and Danish researchers have created a hydrogel that kills various types of bacteria and reduces inflammation in mice and pigs with infected wounds.
The technology of Oxford-based Oxford Biodynamics (OBD) promises insights into why immunotherapies only work in some patients but not in all. A major US pharma company now wants to validate OBD’s epigenetic biomarker discovery and development platform causing a share price gain of 15%.
Enzymes have been used widely for years to bleach textiles or shrink wool. However, the clothing sector is one of the world’s most polluting industries. And now fashion labels are turning increasingly to sustainable biofabrication and biotech-inspired methods to help lower the environmental footprint of their products.
Data from 1,200 heart failure patients demonstrate that high discharge levels of the biomarker bio-ADM® (bioactive Adrenomedullin) indicate residual congestion in heart failure patients.
The new company, named Augustine Therapeutics, is a Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) and Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven spin-off. Funded with €4.2m from mainly local investors, Augustine’s first priority is finding new therapeutics for patients suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system.
After years of regulatory deadlock concerning political decision making on genome-edited and genetically targeted mutational breeding, the European Council has demanded that the European Commission regulate new plant breeding techniques (NBT), such as oligonucleotid-directed mutagenesis (ODM), gene scissors (CRISPR), and others.