Tag: biotechnology
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Sumitomo Dainippon, Biotechs in $3B Acquisition Deal
Japanese pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Dainippon agreed to acquire five biotechnology companies and gain an equity stake in the Roivant Sciences group.
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Spin-Off Licensing Athletic Microbiome Technology
A company spun-off from biomedical engineering labs at Harvard University is acquiring research on microbial communities in elite athletes to create new probiotics.
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Gates Investing in HIV, Tuberculosis Immunotherapies
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is taking an equity stake in a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies from messenger RNA.
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Deep Learning Techniques Speed Drug Discovery
Researchers developed and demonstrated techniques with deep learning to discover new small molecule drugs ready for validation and lab animal tests in 21 days.
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Infographic – Biotech Index Falls in Summer
It’s time to check in again on the NBI on its ups and downs since the start of 2019, our infographic for this weekend.
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Companies Call for Genome Editing Regulations
A group of companies developing treatments for disease using genome editing are calling for regulations and standards to govern these technologies in regenerative medicine.
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Small Biz Grant Funds Pre-Term Gut Microbe Therapy
National Institutes of Health is supporting development of an extended-release probiotic treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis, an intestinal disease affecting premature infants.
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Carb-X Funds Drug-Resistant Bacterial Vaccine
A company developing vaccines with synthetic biology is receiving a grant for a vaccine to prevent infections from drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria.
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FDA Okays Celiac Disease Engineered Microbe Trial
A company making synthetic biological therapies received authorization to begin clinical trials in the U.S. for an engineered microbe to treat celiac disease.
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Controlled Brain Tumor Gene Therapy Shown Safe
A clinical trial shows an experimental gene therapy that controls release of a powerful anti-tumor protein is safe for patients with stubborn glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer.