Antigen tests such as SD Biosensor‘s SARS-CoV-2 chromatographic assay do not need any instrumentation or additional reagents and thus can be performed at the point of care. © SD Biosensor Inc

Roche has announced to launch a SARS-CoV-2 point-of-care antigen test this month co-developed with SD Biosensor Inc. (South Korea).

Materials Innovation Factory at Unilever. © Unilever

Unilever has announced to invest €1bn globally to eliminate fossil fuels as a source of carbon in its cleaning products by 2030. 

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With around 450 attendees, the five-day digital conference particularly focused on market conditions and financing. SMEs and global partners urged for more pull incentives.

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Swiss BioVersys AG has secured a CHF19m Series B financing to push clinincal development of two antiinfectives against drug-resistant pathogens.

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PPF-owned company SOTIO has acquired the rights to use the BOXR CAR-T platform and products from Cambridge-based Unum Therapeutics.

Dividing Breast Cancer Cell. Credit: National Cancer Institute / Univ. of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Polyphor AG has licenced its metastatic cancer drug balixafortide to Fosun Pharma Co Ltd to market the drug exclusively in China.
 

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British fibrosis therapeutics start-up Engitix Ltd has entered a collaboration agreement  with Takeda to develop anti-fibrotic therapies in liver diseases.

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US experiemental mRNA vaccine maker Moderna Inc is in advanced talks with the European Commission to supply 80 million doses mRNA-1273, its candidate vs SARS-CoV-2

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Scientists from Leuven, Rotterdam  and San Diego have published a sequencing-based map of ulcerative colitis paving the way to new treatments. 

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Roche and Regeneron have signed an manufacturing and distribution agreement on Regeneron’s Phase II therapeutic antibody for the treatment of COVID-19.