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The EMA‘s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended eight medicines for approval in its last meeting in London, two thereof orphan medicines. Three got conditional marketing authorisation.

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French Genfit SA has registered at SEC for an Nasdaq IPO of ADS in conjunction with private placements in Europe and the US.

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Researchers from the UK and the US have prevented tendon injury and degeneration by simply blocking a key signalling pathway in inflammation.

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University Zurich spin-off Anaveon AG announced it will proceeds from its financing round to push development of its preclinical IL-2-receptor agonist.

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The global antibacterial innovation network CARB-X has expanded its reach by adding six new life-science organisations to its fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). 

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Swiss pharma giant Roche has complemented its drug pipeline in the lucrative hemophilia A market by taking over hemophilia A gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics for US$4.3bn.

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Sodium chloride can promote immune responses that have been linked to atopic dermatitis. Researchers have now unraveled the mechanistic details between salt intake and activation of T cells.

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Dutch autoimmunity specialist Calypso Biotech BV has raised €20m in a Series A financing co-led by Gilde Healthcare and Inkef Capital and co-financed by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), and the company’s seed investor M Ventures.

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Evotec AG and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) have joined platforms in order to find novel resistance-breaking antibiotics against Gram-negative bugs.

Human heart muscle cells derived from triple-engineered stem cells that are invisible to the immune system. The red is troponin, a protein that participates in cardiac muscle contraction. The blue is the cell's nucleus. Researchers hope cells like these will eventually be used to treat heart failure. © USCF/ Xiaomeng Hu.

Researchers for the first time have found a way to prevent immune rejection of allogenic iPSC-derived cell and tissue transplants.