Pacifico Biolabs raises US$3.3m in pre-seed round
Riding the wave of mushroom mycelium-based foods, which are advertised as a climate- and animal-friendly alternative to meat, Pacifico Biolabs GmbH...
Bayer's Ask Bio unit starts Phase II heart failure gene therapy
The Phase II trial called GenePHIT is the largest adaptive, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, multicentre trial ever to evaluate the...
miRNA specialist Resalis Therapeutics Srl raises €10m in Series A financing
Existing investors including Claris Ventures and angel investors participated in the financing The proceeds will be used to initiate and complete the...
EU parliament backs deregulation of New Genome Techniques
With the MEPs' approval of the amendments to the European Commission's draft legislation, the way is now clear for a regulation that distinguishes...
AstraZeneca buys Chinese Gracell Biotechnologies for $1.2bn
Pharmaceutical giant Astrazeneca with CEO Pascal Soriot wants to take over the Chinese company Gracell Biotechnologies in order to strengthen its...
Innate immunity merger raises €75m
Dutch Oxitope and Norwegian Arxx announced their merger to form Calluna Pharma Inc with the goal to develop therapies for inflammatory and fibrotic...
Metrion Biosciences closes £3.7m equity financing
The company announced that the funding will be used to expand Metrion’s new (2021) laboratories in Cambridge, UK, invest in specialist...