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Swedish startup CubaseBio has raised €5.9 million in blended financing to advance its next-generation 3D spatial transcriptomic technology. Of that total, €3.9 million comes from private capital. Voima Ventures and Nordic Science Investments led the private financing. Illumina Ventures, Almi Invest, Life Science Invest and several genomics-focused private investors also participated.

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QLi5 Therapeutics has completed a €6.26 million capital increase led by its Korean co-founder, Qurient, which has also increased its voting stake in the German biotech. The funding will be used to advance QLi5’s proteasome inhibitor(PI)-based antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) payload platform, an approach the company is presenting as a next step beyond today’s dominant ADC payload classes.

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bit.bio has raised $50 million in a series C round led by M&G Investments to support the next phase of its human cell programming business. The Cambridge-based company develops defined human cells using its opti-ox technology, supplying reproducible cell types to researchers and drug developers for use in drug discovery.

French biotech Ciloa SAS has received a €6.5m grant to advance its adiponectin-loaded exosome candidate, APN-sEV, into Phase I safety trials, ahead of efficacy evaluation in indications including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and liver fibrosis.

Dutch venture capital firm Forbion revealed that its BioEconomy Fund I has amassed €164.5m. This surpasses the fund’s initial target of €150m, highlighting the increasing interest from investors in the commercial viability of biotech solutions that tackle worldwide sustainability issues.

Austria has once again come a little closer to its goal of achieving the highest research and development rate (R&D rate) in the EU. Two thirds of R&D investments are made by industry, of which around 16% are made by foreign companies. Two current examples of investments in Austria from the life sciences sector are Novartis and Ligand Pharmaceuticals.

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Glycan target specialist Tacalyx GmbH expands its seed financing to €14m to advance its anti-TACA cancer therapies.

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On the occasion of SynbiTECH in London, British Science, Research and Innovation Minister, Andrew Griffith, unveiled a £2bn strategic 10-year plan to foster engineering biology.

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Researchers uncover a potential strategy to target and inhibit the androgen receptor in aggressive prostate cancer by exploiting protein droplets.

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Eligo Bioscience secures $30m in series B funding, advancing its innovative gene-editing solutions targeting diseases linked to bacterial genes within the human microbiome.