At its center for advanced rapid diagnostics (CARD), Mologic  with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  attained the ambitious milestone of 1pg/mL sensitivity in a visually read lateral-flow device. © Mologic

Synbio specialist Sherlock Biosciences and next-generation lateral flow testing expert Mologic Ltd have joined forces to develop a no-instrument rapid testing platform detecting virtually every infectious pathogen in low resource settings.

© pixabay/Tibor Janosi Mores

German researchers have shown that a protein protects against the development of liver fibrosis by shutting down inflammatory signalling in liver stellate cells of the liver. 

Cultured myocytes. © bit bio

Cell reprogramming specialist bit bio has expanded its management with renowned experts in the field.

© BioVersys

Swiss biotech company BioVersys AG has received a €8m grant by US-based non-profit organisation CARB-X to develop novel anti-virulence antibiotics to treat severe bacterial infections.

MxA activates the inflammasome: Specks of ASC, one of inflammasome proteins (indicated by arrows), were observed in the lung epithelial cells of transgenic mice infected with the influenza A virus (IAV), which expressed ihuman MxA, but not in IAV-infected mice without human MxA (non-Tg) at day three post-infection. © Lee et al., Sci. Immunol. 4, eaau4643 (2019)

A team of Japanese and German researchers has found the protein that helps activate the inflammasome following viral invasion.

Rotaviruses. © CDC

Researchers at University Lyon have found a potential repurposing application of two market-approved rotavirus vaccines.

Swiss Polyphor AG and researchers from the University of Zurich have presented the mechanism of action of a new class of antibiotics.
 

© Zealand Pharma A/S

Zealand Pharma A/S has acquired Encycle Therapeutics Inc, including a peptide therapeutics platform and library.
 

Localisation of FSP1 in green, cell nucleus in yellow, endoplasmic reticulum in magenta. © Rudolf Virchow Centre for Experimental Biomedicine University of Würzburg

German researchers have found a novel way to induce iron-induced necrosis, a process which they want to turn against cancer.

Ebola virus. © EMA

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended seven medicines for approval at its October 2019 meeting.