Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Nitrogenases also can fix CO2

Investigating substrate selectivity of nitrogenase enzymes in phototrophic R. capsulatus bacteria, German microbiologist have found one converting CO2 to formiate and methane opening the way to fossil oil-free hydrocarbon synthesis

New antibiotic breaks resistance

A Dutch-German resarch team together with Evotec SE have presented a new class of vancomycin derivatives with good safety profile that kill multi-resistant, Gram-positive bugs.

Roche inks US$2bn biobucks deal with Sangamo

After Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. presented an epigenetic ZFN-based repressor at ASGCT 2024 that reduces the expression of the tau protein in the hippocampus by 95% in Alzheimer’s models, Roche’s US subsidiary Genentech has licensed the experimental gene therapy.

BI Venture Funds invests in oncolytic bacteria

With an investment of its venture arm (BI-VF), Boehringer Ingelheim underlines its committment to expand the reach of cancer immune therapies. The Series A financing in Chinese Synthetica Pioneering that engineers oncolytic bacteria to deliver toxic payloads or modulators of the tumour environment to solid tumours follows an investment in T3 Pharmaceuticals.

Gourmey files first EU application for cell-based meat

Not the German InFamily Foods subsidiary The Cultivated B, but Gourmey SAS, founded in Paris in 2019 by Antoine Davydoff, Nicolas Morin-Forest and Victor Sayous, has submitted the first EU authorisation application for a cell-based meat product, a duck liver pâté (Foie gras), to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).