
EU Regulation of Genome Editing in Plants – not yet a law
The EU proposal has a clear message: the requirements for simple genome-edited plants shall be significantly relaxed. There will no longer be the...

Researchers decipher mystery of oil-eating microbes
A French-British team of microbiologists have found out, how Alcanivorax borkumensis optimises oil biodegradation and consumption. Their discovery...

CEPI commits up to US$80m to University of Oxford to develop vaccines
The US$80m strategic partnership of CEPI, which was established in 2016 in the wake of the Ebola virus outbreak in west Africa, the University of...

Spexis AG bags money for pivotal Phase III trial
The cash injection of US$2.5m that was led by SPRIM Global Investments (SGI) is urgently needed to finance US commercialisation of the company’s...

Retinopathy: Golgi and Breye join forces
The two companies announced their collaboration, which aims to find treatment options for both early-stage diabetic retinopathy (DR) and dry-AMD...

Bavarian Nordic A/S bags US$120m for smallpox vaccine
Under a deal with the US agency BARDA, Bavarian Nordic A/S (Copenhagen) will cash in US$96m in 2023 ffor the manufacturing of a n new buk product of...

More marine plastics than expected
Researchers led by Mikael Kaandorp from German FZ Jülich and colleagues from Utrecht University report that plastic pieces larger than 2.5 cm, which...