Mereo BioPharma has entered into a $5m convertible equity financing with Novartis and a $28m securities purchase agreement with Aspire Capital Fund.
French Stilla Technologies SA raised €20m in a Series B funding to boost digital PCR-based genetic testing.
Targeted genome editing using the CRISPR-Cas9 system is easy to use but far from being perfect. Computer calculated modification of CRISPR activity can reduce "off-target effects".
Dutch biotech Azafaros B.V. has closed a €25m Series A financing round.
Infants who show defective immune responses to microbial components are more likely to acquire asthma later in childhood, according to a study of 541 children.
MaaT Pharma SA has announced €18m Series B financing to boost its microbiome biotherapeutics pipeline.
French vaccine developer Valneva SA will raise $85m in a financing arrangement with Deerfield and OrbiMed and go Nasdaq to co-fund its Lyme disease programme.
Researchers at the University of Luebeck have revealed the structure of the IMP dehydrogenase, a central target of T. brucei, which causes sleeping sickness.
Scientists at Imperial College London have created a worldwide atlas of dengue virus transmission with much higher spatial resolution than any previous regional- or global-scale estimates.