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GSK takes over Elsie Biotechnologies in US$50m deal to boost its oligonucleotide-based drug platform and pipeline.

Lu 177-dotatate (pink and orange) binds to somatostatin receptors (green) on neuroendocrine tumor cells (blue) and kills the cells through the release of radioactive  particles.@ NCI. Credit: Adapted from Frontiers in Oncology. January 2019. Front. Oncol. doi: 10.3389/fonc.201800663

ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE has raised €188m ito boost radiopharma pipeline, contract manufacturing cpacity, and launch ITM-11.

Quantro used thiol(SH)-linked alkylation for the metabolic sequencing of RNA (SLAM seq), an orthogonal-chemistry-based RNA sequencing technology that detects 4-thiouridine (s4U) incorporation in RNA species at single-nucleotide resolution, to measure RNA-polymerase-II-dependent gene expression dynamics. © QUANTRO Therapeutics GmbH

Viennese biotech QUANTRO Therapeutics identifies small molecule targeting an onkogenic transcription factor in Boehringer Ingelheim collab.

DefiniGEN's hepatocyte NAFLD cell_model. © DefiniGEN' Ltd

DefiniGEN Ltd., and Atelerix Ltd. have successfully shipped in vitro liver models from the UK to the US without freezing them thus preventing cell damage and loss-of function.

Approvals for RNA-based drugs in the past decade. © IQVIA

With the opening of a production centRE for RNA vaccines and therapeutics, German CDMO Wacker Biotech is expanding its expertise in the field of RNA active ingredients.

Drug discovery CRO Evotec SE announced has entered into a partnership with Inserm, Lille University Hospital and Inserm Transfert to screen new biomarkers and targets in obesity and metabolic diseases.

Award winner Jeroen Verheyen (CEO and co-founder, Semarion, left) with Ignite Award judge Severine Tamas-Lhoustau, Managing Director of Novoptim (Paris, France, right). © Jill Hronek, Director Marketing and Communication at SLAS

UK-based Semarion Ltd. was honoured as the most innovative company in the field of laboratory automation at SLAS Europe 2024 in Barcelona.

Fundus in diabetis retinopathy. © By Shaofeng Hao, Changyan Liu, Na Li, Yanrong Wu, Dongdong Li, Qingyue Gao, Ziyou Yuan, Guanyan Li, Huilin Li, Jianzhou Yang, and Shengfu Fan. - (2022). - wikipedia.org/PLoS One (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0275983.

US pharma giant Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) is decided to acquire London-based ophtalmology expert Eyebiotech Ltd for upt to US$3bn., US$1.7bn in future milestones.

Swiss Seed Biosciences SA and UK-based Cryologyx Ltd have won the SLAS Europe Product Award 2024 for product developments with transformational potential for the sector.

Eppstein Barr virus infected cells. © CDC

Hornet Therapeutics Ltd will use a US$5m seed financing to launch clinical tests of its IDO1 blocker HTX-201within the next 12 to 18 months to target post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease.