
MosaMeat BV closes US$85m Series B financing
While EU policymakers are yet discussing the green deal or farm to fork strategies, Dutch MosaMeat BV is launching a new era of biotechnologically...

C4X Discovery and Sanofi ink €414m IL-17A blocker R&D contract
The company's subsidiary C4X Discovery Ltd got €7m upfront with potential to gain €414m in total for the global commercialisation rights for its...

PCR-test reveals risk of genotoxity of genome editing
The new method called single targeted linker-mediated PCR sequencing (CAST-Seq), developed at University Hospital Freiburg, Germany, is set to become...

Abingworth raises US-$465m for new life sciences fund
UK-US venture capitalist Abingworth yesterday announced the final closing of its 13th life sciences venture fund, ABV 8, at US$465m exceeding...

InteRNA Technologies secures €18.5m in Series B financing
Waterman Ventures and current shareholders Aglaia Oncology Funds and OostNL participated in the funding. The Utrecht-based...

Targeting SARS-CoV-2 differently
Using X-ray crystallography, Sebastian Günther and colleagues screened more than 5,000 drug compounds, identified seven compounds that bind to Mpro,...

V-Bio Ventures launches second fund at €78m
With the investment, the Belgian biotech sector gets a cash injection. According to V-Bio Ventures, the new fund will build on the investment...