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Bavarian Nordic A/S has expand its smallpox contract signed with the Canadian PHAC in June from $56m to $470m including $180m in contract options.

Genfit's headquarters in Lille. © Genfit SA

Through the acquisition of Versantis for €40m upfront and further €65m in milestones, Genfit SA has added three clinical and preclinical candidates to its liver drug portfolio.

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Foodtech startup Standing Ovation SA has closed an oversubscribed €12m Series A financing round led by Astanor Ventures. 

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HeartBeat.bio and Molecular Devices announce collaboration to automate and scale cardiac organoids for high-throughput drug discovery screening

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Dutch researchers report they could detect a COVID-19 infection with better sensitivity than antigen tests by a mobile app that uses AI to analyse voice recordings.

Bone marrow aspirate showing acute myeloid leukemia. Several blasts have Auer rods (see arrow). © VashiDonsk/Wikipedia

Dutch Pleco Therapeutics BV has raised €17.3m in a Series A financing to push its lead candidate in acute myeloid leukaemia to market approval.

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Synaffix B.V. and Emergence Therapeutics AG have entered into a licensing agreement of up to $360m to find ADCs directed against target molecules from Emergence.

Paris-based Abivax SA has cashed in €49.2m in an oversubscribed financing with top-tier US and European biotech investors.

BioEcho Life Science Inc.'s headquarters. © BioEcho

German nucleic acid extraction specialist BioEcho Life Sciences has opened a subsidiary in Boston to supply the huge US-american market. 

 

Fluorescent microscopy image of the new cells (extraembryonic mesoderm cells) and placenta progenitor stem cells. The new cells are marked in red, and cells corresponding to placental stem cells are shown in green. The DNA (nucleus) of each cell is shown in blue.
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Researchers from KU Leuven for the first time have produced human cells able to mimic the molecular mechanisms of early human embryogenesis and related defects.