Everybody wants green production. Bioeconomy progress, however, must become more visible to consumers and let the civil society get involved to ensure socially robust innovation and perception, according to the BioBioSTEP project.
A new method that determines the mode of action underlying antimicrobial compounds could help overcome a major stumbling block in the ongoing effort to discover new antibiotics. Using it, reseachers from ETH Zurich zeroed in on compounds directed against tuberculosis.
Virtual oncology company Cullinan Oncology, LLC has selecteed monoclonal antibody provider MAB Discovery GmbH (Neuried) to develop the first candidate of a target portfolio of 8-10 novel antibody therapeutics.
UK researchers headed by Michael Blackman have found out that a proteolytic cascade regulates release of merozoites of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from host red blood cells. Inhibitition paves the way to block the parasites egress.
Spanish specialist for sea-derived synthetic oncology drugs, PharmaMar SA, has inked a licence agreement with US antibody drug conjugate (ADC) company Seattle Genetics Inc. PharmaMar will provide fully-synthetic toxic payloads.
In a strategic acquisition, Roche has completed its capabilities to use Big data to build new business cases in digital diagnostics solutions and personalised healthcare. The pharma major agreed to pay US$1.9bn to take over the US specialist for digital electronic medical records, Flatiron Health Inc.
Santhera Pharmaceuticals has licenced the inhaled neutrophil eleastase blocker POL6014 from Polyphor Ltd for CHF6.5m upfront and CHF121m in potential milestones.
Co-administration of an allogenic blood stem cell transplant and sorafenib cured AML patients refractive to chemotherapy and stem cell transplants alone, oncologists report in Nature Medicine.
Poxel S.A. is advancing its proof-of-concept type 2 diabetes programme imeglimin (PXL008) into Phase III studies in the US an the EU by means of a licence deal with Swiss Roivant Sciences GmbH.
Anticalin developer Pieris and Antibody-drug conjugate specialist Seattle Genetics have agreed to co-develop three bispecific cancer drugs using Seattle Genetics cancer targets and Pieris co-stimulatory agonist and anticalin platform.