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UK-based biotech startup Fluidic Analytics has raised €27m for its proteomics platform. The financing round was led by Draper Esprit, with participation from Delin Ventures, BGF, IQ Capital, and Amadeus Capital Partners. 

Aerial view of the Valley of Chemistry in the south of Lyon. © Grendlyon - la metropole

French Carbios SA has signed a letter of intent with PVC giant Kem One to implement a demonstration plant to provide proof of concept of Carbios‘ groundbreaking enzymatic PET depolymerisation technology.

Adrenomed AG

German Adrenomed AG has bagged €24m in equity financing from HBM Healthcare Investments and Wellington Partners.

A picture of lab mice relaxing on instruments that were used to administer inhaled candidate drugs for asthma. © H.S. Dengler et al., Science Translational Medicine (2018)

Researchers at Genentech have locally blocked lung inflammation in a mouse model for asthma by administration of an inhalable JAK1 inhibitor.

Aspergillus fumigatus san invade the lungs of immunocompromised patients. ©123rf.com/ Kateryna Kon

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has lent antiinfectives company F2G Biotech Ltd €24m for antifungal research and innovation under the InnovFin Infectious Diseases Finance Facility (IDFF). 

Researchers at Cancer UK have slowed down tumour growth by simply feeding mice that carry human tumour xenografts with mannose instead of glucose.

An invasive front of highly aggressive tumour cells (in green). Confocal microscopy image. © Alexandra Avgustinova, IRB Barcelona

Researchers at IRB Barcelona report that tumours may become more aggressive following treatment with drugs that inhibit epigenetic factors.

MCC950 blocks the activation of the NLRP3 inflammosome. © Inflazome

Inflammosome inhibitor specialist Inflazome Ltd has raised €40m in a Series B financing led by Forbion with co-investors Longitude Capital, Novartis Venture Fund and Fountain Healthcare Partners.

The European Commission's Chief Scientific Advisors presented a review of "New Techniques in Agricultural Biotechnology" in 2017. © EC

The EU Commission’s Chief Scientific Advisors urge the Commission to revise the EU’s GMO Directive in order to harness gene editing.

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Boehringer Ingelheim and Epizyme, Inc. will collaborate in the field of small molecule cancer drugs that target unaddressed epigenetic targets within the helicase and histone acetyltransferase families.