
UK launches new payment model for antimicrobials
A 5-year plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) published by the UK government has ambitious goals. Using electronic prescription, it aims at...

New cheap CRS-blockers at the horizon
In mice, the team headed by Bert Vogelstein and Shibin Zhou from Johns-Hopkins University in Baltimore demonstrated that severe...

Reprogrammed pancreatic cells cure type I diabetes
Typically, only pancreatic beta, which lack in people with type I diabetes, cells can produce insulin. Pedro Herrera and colleagues investigated...

Microbiome defines gut conditions
Studying over 1,700 individuals delivered differences in gut microbiome composition and function among patients with the inflammatory...

Afyren raises €21m to launch production plant
Together with its historical shareholders AFY Partners and Sofimac Régions Afyren has raised more than €60m to move its zero-waste fermentation...

Tissue specific tumour transition needs few cells
Anja Voss-Böhme from University Dresden and researchers at the German Cancer Center in Heidelberg used a model that links epigenetic and genetic...

Boehringer expands neurology activities
Since 2014, the partners have launched three preclinical research projects in COPD, neuroscience and innate immunity. The new project at BioMed X...