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Immunoncology and vaccine specialist BioNTech AG is broadening its antibody discovery capabilities by acquiring MAB Discovery‘s antibody generation unit.  

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Swiss fine chemicals specialist Clariant has hammered out a R&D pact with ExxonMobil and Renewable Energy Group (REG) Inc to combine technologies in order of producing biodiesel from cellulose
 

Pierre Meulien, IMI Executive Director and ex-Genomics Canada President

The Innovative Medicines Initiative II has earmarked €80m for pre-competetive research improving the pharmaceutical industry’s productivity.

Superbug Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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Novo Holdings has invested €18m from its €135m REPAIR Impact Fund into four companies.
 

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Boehringer Ingelheim has expanded its 2014 R&D collaboration with the BioMed X Innovation Center (Heidelberg, Germany) to find new treatment approaches for early intervention of psychiatric diseases.

Scanning electron microscope image showing macrophage adhesion to a monolayer of myofibroblasts. © M. Lodyga et al., Science Signaling (2018)

Canadian and Finnish researchers have demonstrated that long immune cell contact to lung tissue turns tissue repair into fibrosis. 

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French vaccine specialist Valneva SE has inked a supply contract with the US Department of Defense for IXIARO its Japanese encephalitis (JE). 

The development of gasification technology takes place in VTT's Bioruukki piloting centre in Espoo, Finland. © VTT

Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd have presented a new gasification-based technique to turn forest industry byproducts into transport fuels and chemicals.

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German researchers have modeled when cellular alterations inevitably lead to the development of cancer. The transition is tissue-specific and needs only a few cells.

Pseudocoloured cluster of circulating tumour cells (CTCs), isolated from the blood of a patient with breast cancer, trapped on a microfluidic device. © M Oeggerli / Micronaut 2018, supported by Pathology-, C-CINA / Biozentrum-, and I Krol, and N Aceto, Faculty of Medicine-, University Hospital and University Basel.

A team of Swiss researchers has identified Na+/K+-ATPase blockers as candidate drugs capable to prevent formation of metastases. In blood, the repurposed drugs identified in a screening dissociated clusters of circulating tumour cells (CTCs), forerunners of metastases.