
BioSpain breaking records
On its 20th anniversary in Catalonia’s vibrant capital Barcelona, BioSpain 2023 is set to break records in terms of attracting visitors,...

SpliceBio has made up a US $216m alliance with Spark Therapeutics
Under a globally exclusive licence option agreement with Roche AG, SpliceBio secures an upfront payment, opt-in and milestone payments up to $216m...

Scotland boosts bio-based manufacturing with £75m fund
Scottish Enterprise and Innovate UK will deliver the Launchpad programme, designed to focus on Scotland’s strengths in the sector. The packages,...

Roche acquires Telavant Holdings to win TLA1 race
The takeover of Telavant, a 75:25 jont-venture of Roivant Sciences and the US pharmaceutical group Pfizer, however, may cost Roche up to US-$7.25bn....

BenevolentAI Ltd inks US$594m partnership with Merck KGaA
Under the licence agreement, BenevolentAI will identify and develop new compounds against three targets provided by Merck through hit identification...

Microharvest GmbH launches SCP-Pilot plant in Lissabon
Prior to its planned product launch of HILIX, a feed product for aquaculture, in early 2024, single-cell protein start-up MicroHarvest GmbH has...

Researchers stop brain cell death in Alzheimer’s mice
The research team led by Prof. Bart De Strooper (VIB-KU Leuven/UK Dementia Research Institute), and Dr Sriram Balusu (VIB-KU Leuven) has finally...