Afyren's current preindustrial production plant.© Afyren

French industrial biotech company Afyren announced a capital increase of €21m in a financing round led by  Sofinnova Partners and Valquest Partners to scale up its biobased organic acid production to industrial scale.

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Biotech Campus Delft, Royal DSM and YES!Delft partner up have launched a Biotech Validation Lab to validate the business concepts of European biotech startups.  
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Gene therapy uniQure NV (Amsterdam) reported that factor IX levels of patients with severe hemophilia B raised to a mean of 38% of normal 12 weeks after a single injection of AMT-061.

Suggested mode of action of OSE-127: Blocking of an epitope overlapping the
IL-7 binding domain and the receptor heterodimerization region prevents activation of JAK/STAT signaling as well as PI3K and Erk
signaling, which blocks inflammation by neutralisation of IFN-gamma producing antigen-specific memory T cells © Nature Communicationsvolume 9, Article number: 4483 (2018)

Ose Immunotherapeutics has got the first milestone payment within its €272m deal with Servier inked in 2016.

The montage shows representative confocal images of siCTL HUVEC cells used in Kugeratski et al. F-actin, in white, is stained with phalloidin, Cortactin is in yellow and DAPI in blue.
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Analyses of the stroma cell proteome have revealed how intratumoral hypoxia triggers the formation of dysfunctional blood vessels that block drugs from entering the tumour and push metastasis.  

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Jennewein Biotechnologie and Asia’s largest dairy company Yili Group have joined forces to develop an innovative infant formula tailored to the Chinese market.
Regulation through orexin A and B. @ www.cell.com/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tem.2016.06.011

Sosei Group Corporation has spun out two programmes of its neurology pipeline into two newly created companies funded by venture fund Medicxi.

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

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Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. is set to takeover cell and gene therapy CDMO apceth Biopharma GmbH to get a foothold in Europe, the second largest market for advanced therapies after the US.

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Dewpoint Therapeutics has attracted interested of investors with a completely new approach that might cure a huge array of  devasting diseases.