SeaBeLifeSeabelife SAS to develop next-gen dry AMD drug
French drug developer SeaBeLife SAS has bagged a €1.5m fund within the i-Nov 2024 innovation competition, which is part of the French government’s...
Roche opens €90m gene therapy development centre
Roche sees the €90m investment as a harbinger of the German government's "National Strategy for Gene and Cell Therapies", which has been...
Scientists create non-digestible aptamer
The synthetic TNA nucleic acid analogues created by a biochemists at University of Cologne hrepresent a so called threofuranosyl nucleic acid...
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...
Bioplastics production capacity to quadruple by 2028
Global production capacity for bioplastics will almost quadruple within the next five years, according to estimates of the Nova Institute on behalf...
Cambridge university spin-out HutanBio Ltd bags £2.25m seed financing
HutanBio, a Malaysian spin-out from scientists at Cambridge University, UK, has bagged a first tranche of seed investment from London-based Clean...
Deregulation of new genomic techniques before decision
Although the required approval of 15 agriculture ministers was achieved in mid-December, the hotly debated proposal of the EU Commission to relax...