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The European Commission has now recommended concrete steps that, while not yet final, would require Illumina to "swiftly" reverse its controversial $7.1bn acquisition of Grail.

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Our species – modern humans, or homo sapiens sapiens – has ever striven for progress. And progress was greatly enabled by fire, a fundamental chemical phenomenon that allows the fast release of large amounts of energy.

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Renewed focus on cancer: COVID-19 vaccine company BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) and Ryvu Therapeutics S.A., located in Krakow (Warsaw Stock Exchange: RVU), a Polish clinical-stage cancer therapeutics development company, announced that the companies have entered into a research collaboration for several multi-target immunotherapy programmes, as well as an exclusive licensing agreement for Ryvu’s STING agonist portfolio as stand-alone small molecules.

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AstraZeneca announced an agreement to acquire Neogene Therapeutics Inc. (Neogene), a global clinical-stage biotechnology company spezialised in next-generation T-cell receptor therapies (TCR-Ts) that offer a novel cell therapy approach for targeting cancer. The acquisition delivers an initial payment of $200m on deal closing, and a further up to $120m in both contingent milestones-based and non-contingent consideration.

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Novo Nordisk A/S invests €726m to expand facilities and to produce APIs to supply the company’s global clinical trials.

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SOTIO Biotech a.s. has exercised its first of five exclusive, target-specific options for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) SOT106 under its agreement with LegoChem Biosciences Inc.

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London-based computer vision specialist V7 Ltd has baged $33m in Series A financing co-led by AI-focused Radical Ventures and Temasek.

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Latest investment trends were presented by BIOTECH Insight at the start of the German Equity Forum

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C4X Discovery Holdings plc has exclusively licenced its NRF2 Activator programme to AstraZeneca and has got an upfront payment of $2m.

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BioEcho Life Sciences develops innovative products that drastically improve the quality, convenience, and speed of standard molecular protocols. The EchoLUTION technology consists of an efficient and gentle lysis, followed by a unique single-step centrifugation, which provides a reduction of procedural steps compared to conventional kits, and considerably reduces plastic waste.