
New polymer can stop biofilm formation
The acrylate co-polymer reported by Jean-Frédéric Dubern and colleagues in Science Advances (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add7474) have the potential to...

Confo Therapeutics and Lilly partner to advance CFTX-1554
Under the agreement, Confo Therapeutics BV got a $40m upfront and milestone payments totalling $590m for licencing its clinical stage angiotensin II...

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...

Ethris inks €15m deal with Indian Ciplas
The investment is aimed at establishing a long-term strategic partnership until the end of Q1/2023 between Cipla and Ethris for the development of...

HOOKIPA bags US$10m cancer milestone
The Vienna-based arenavirus specialist got the non-dilutive milestone payment for advancing its drug programme HB-700, a novel arenaviral...

Free sugar linked to higher cardiovascular disease
The findings of a group headed by Rebecca Kelly at University Oxford (doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02712-7) strengthen the evidence for the global...

AMsilk scaling up through Evonik collaboration
Just one week after AMSilk inked a collaboration agreement on protein engineering of its silk protein to target new applications with Brain Biotech...