Roche opens €90m gene therapy development centre
Roche sees the €90m investment as a harbinger of the German government's "National Strategy for Gene and Cell Therapies", which has been...
Senisca Ltd raises £3.7m seed money
The proceeds of Senisca’s latest funding round led by Lifespan Vision Venture will support the preclinical development of the company’s...
SynaptixBio Ltd gets FDA ODD for leukodystrophy
Using antisense oligonucleotides (ASO) to silence the beta tubulin 4a gene, Oxford-based SynaptixBio Ltd received its first ODD in early 2023 for a...
Relation Therapeutics Ltd bags US$35m in seed financing.
The latest financing round of generative AI drug discovery company Relation Therapeutics was led by DCVC and co-led by NVIDIA's venture arm,...
AstraZeneca to acquire Amolyt Pharma for up to US$1.05bn
Under the agreement set to close in Q3/2024, AstraZeneca will acquire Amolyt Pharma for US$800m upfront and potential milestone payments of US$250m....
Bioplastics production capacity to quadruple by 2028
Global production capacity for bioplastics will almost quadruple within the next five years, according to estimates of the Nova Institute on behalf...
Gut bacteria seed autoimmunity-inducers
A unique mechanism, reported by an Irish-French research team underscores an emerging theme in microbiome research: that disruptions to gut bacteria...