German companies to revolutionise lab plastics market
Plastic consumables used in pharmaceutical and biotechnological research must meet high quality standards. A German start-up has now launched the...
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...
Alvotech Advances in Biosimilar Market with Successful AVT03 Study
Alvotech SA, a global biotech company from Luxembourg, specialising in biosimilars, reported positive results from a pharmacokinetic study of AVT03,...
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...
New law to speed up clinical trials
The draft Medical Research Act (Medizinforschungsgesetz) presented by Health Minister Karl Lauterbach in Berlin before Easter is the centrepiece of...
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...
Roche jumps ship on AC Immune
In recent trials, both Semorinemab, a monoclonal antibody (mAb) binding all forms of Tau, and Crenezumab, a mAb targeting multiple forms of misfolded...