© Two German companies, BioNTech and CureVac AG have announced to start trials on Covid-19 mRNA vaccine this spring. © BioNTech SE

Chinese Fosun Pharma Ltd has made the largest investment in a foreign company for a COVID-19 vaccine development: BioNTech’d mRNA vaccine BNT162.

EU Commissioners Frans Timmermans and Virginijus Sinkevi?ius announcing the new circular economy action plan in Brussels. © EC

Under its Green Deal, the European Commission has presented a circular (bio)economay action plan that prepares the ground for a sustainable bio-economy.

Three-dimensional reconstruction of dendritic cells incubated with an anti-PD-L1 antibody. © M. Mayoux et al., Science Translational Medicine (2020)

Researchers at Swiss pharma giant Roche AG have found a subpopulation of dendritic cells to determine how cancer patients respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

E.coli bacteria. © USDA

New data prove that propionic acid modulates the intestine-mediated immune regulation in people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

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LSP has closed its  LSP 6 fund at the $600m hard cap. It is the largest fund ever raised in Europe focused on life sciences ventures.

Agrobody foundry. © Biotalys NV

Pest control specialist Biotalys NV has raised an additional €10m to its series C financing bringing its amount to €45m.

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.