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Rational antibody design specialist Hummingbird Bioscience has licenced a cancer target and the modular ADC technology of Dutch Synaffix BV.

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Cipla EU Ltd is going to make an equity investment of €15m in Ethris GmbH, a specialist for respiratory  delivery of therapeutic mRNAs.

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Scientists from the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel have found that two bacterial species may indicate multiple sclerosis-associated lymphopenia.

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CEPI fights the betacoronaviruses by funding Ethris GmbH and DIOSynVax Ltd and their joint effort to advance their work on an mRNA vaccine.

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Atara Biotherapeutics Inc. and Pierre Fabre SA announced the approval of Tabelecleucel, a therapy for a rare and potentially fatal malignancy.

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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is going to support the AI-platform of NMR/metabolomics diagnostics company Numares AG to improve disease prediction.

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"Solutions for an endangered planet" is what industrial biotechnology seeks and offers. Technical innovations based on nature’s toolbox are intended to help "biologise" industry – in other words, to adapt it to the natural cycles of our planet.

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MinervaX inks €72m financing deal with Novo Holdings REPAIR Impact Fund to develop a vaccine against Group B Streptococcus.

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A child with recurrent T-cell leukaemia was given base-edited T-cells in a world-first application of a base-edited cell therapy.

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According to Bloomberg, the US biotechnology giant Amgen plans to buy Horizon Therapeutics at a valuation of about $26bn. Overall, the deal corresponds to an enterprise value including debt of $28.3bn. This would be the largest acquisition in the company’s history.