Nanopore sequencer used for real-time microbial cell-free DNA analyses in septic patients. © Fraunhofer IGBI

Researchers from German Fraunhofer IGBI have used  next-generation sequencing (NGS) to diagnosis sepsis from tiny amounts of microbial DNA in the blood. 

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The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has announced a €45m funding for the development of therapeutics and diagnostics to tackle coronavirus outbreaks.

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With the financing led by General Atlantic, the British company wants to expand a novel platform and advance its ImmTAX pipeline to the clinic.

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High amounts of injected vitamin C may delay the growth of many types of tumours and boost the anticancer power of immune checkpoint therapies, report Italian oncologists.

Bicycles can be linked together as bi-specifics, which simultaneously bind to two different proteins to deliver dual pharmacology. © Bicycle Therapeutics plc

Roche AG‘s has paid US$30m upfront in a potential US$1.7bn deal to get access to Bicycle Therapeutics plc’s technology platform to target immune checkpoints.

Microglia/macrophage  activated form from rat cortex after traumatic brain injury (lectin staining with HRP). © wikimedia/Grzegorz Wicher
Researchers at Trinity College in Dublin have demonstrated that resetting brain-specific immune cells improves traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery.
 
Meeting of Mr Charles Michel, President of the European Council with Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Federal Chancellor; Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister; and Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister (from left to right).
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Negotiations of the EU Council on the EU’s seven-year budget have failed, putting R&D funding at risk for significant cuts.

Glycom's €50m HMO manufacturing site in Esbjerg, Denmark. © Glycom A/S

Royal DSM NV has entered the growing market of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) taking over the producer of recombinant 2′-fucosyl lactose, Danish Glycom A/S.

Immatics Biotechnologies has labs in Tübingen, Munich and Houston, US. © Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH

US-German immunooncology specialist Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH has licensed two of its TCR-T programs to GlaxoSmithKline for US$50m upfront.

Univercells SA

Univercells S.A. cashes in up to €50m from the KKR subsidiary Gamma Bioscience to advance its gene and cell therapy manufacturing platform.