
Cradle BV bags €5.4m in seed financing
Cradle BV has raised $5.4m to push a machine-learning model-based platform that helps scientists to design and program cells much faster in order to...

Roche withdraws checkpoint blocker from the market
Switzerland’s Hoffmann La Roche AG no longer markets its cancer immunotherapy atezolizumab (Tecentriq) for the treatment of urothelial carcinoma in...

European Commission calls for reversal of Illumina's $7bn Grail merger
The commission on Monday sent a "statement of objections" outlining the process Illumina must follow in divesting Grail, its blood-testing...

Fungal skin replaces plastics in electronics
In a proof-of-concept study, Doris Danninger and colleagues demonstrate that fungal mycelium skins can be grown and processed to serve as substrates...

Memo Therapeutics and Ono Pharmaceutical enter partnership
Under the terms of the agreement, Memo Therapeutics AG will leverage its microfluidic single-cell molecular cloning and screening technologies to...

Novo Nordisk funds API manufacturing with €726m
Novo Nordisk’s latest expansion of R&D as well as production capacity is motivated by the need to generate more of its GLP-1 agonist semaglutide,...

Evidence of deliberate climate damage
For decades, some members of the fossil fuel industry tried to convince the public that a causative link between fossil fuel use and climate warming...