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Rentschler doubles cGMP capacity - European Biotechnology
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Rentschler doubles cGMP capacity – European Biotechnology

In the largest expansion in the company’s 150-year history, the Laupheim-headquartered CDMO Rentschler Biopharma SE has launched a new production line at its site in Milford, USA. According to a company spokesperson, the expansion in the main market for biopharmaceuticals doubles Rentschler’s cGMP-compliant production capacity in one fell swoop. Production for a long-standing client at […]
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No more needles - Exvolvo arises with help of Verily and NLC Health
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No more needles – Exvolvo arises with help of Verily and NLC Health

NLC Health Ventures (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), in partnership with Verily, the precision health technology daughter company of Alphabet/Google, will launch Exolvo Biosciences, a pioneering biotech company providing the next-generation solution for biologic drug delivery as oral administration. NLC Health Ventures launches a new early-stage drug delivery company. The venture builder from The Netherlands partners with […]
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ITM gets equity to launch Phase III lead radiopharmaceutical ITM-11
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ITM gets equity to launch Phase III lead radiopharmaceutical ITM-11

ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE has raised €188m ito boost radiopharma pipeline, contract manufacturing cpacity, and launch ITM-11. Radiopharma conjugate specialist Isotope Technologies Munich SE has raised €188m in an equity financing led by globally active investor Temasek. BlackRock, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), ATHOS and Carbyne participated in the financing that will be used to […]
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AmphiStar BV secures €6m to expand production
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AmphiStar BV secures €6m to develop manufacturing

Waste primarily based biosurfactants producer Amphistar BV has closed a €6m funding spherical led by the  European Round Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), Qbic III and Flanders Future Tech Fund (FFTF). The infusion of €6m in new capital from ECBF, Qbic III and FFTF will empower AmphiStar to kickstart industrial biosurfactant manufacturing in collaboration with exterior companions. […]
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New law to speed up clinical trials
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New legislation to hurry up medical trials

With a brand new legislation, the German authorities desires to extend the variety of medical trials carried out in Germany and make the nation primary in Europe once more. The draft Medical Analysis Act (Medizinforschungsgesetz) introduced by Well being Minister Karl Lauterbach in Berlin earlier than Easter is the centrepiece of Germany’s pharmaceutical technique. With […]
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AMR: Partnership set to improve in vivo antibiotics testing
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AMR: Partnership set to improve in vivo antibiotics testing

The Innovative Medicine Initiative 2 JU-funded €25m project COMBINE is joining forces with  CARB-X & CAIRD, iiCON and Pharmacology Discovery Services to improve in vivo antibiotics testing. The development of novel antibiotics is crucial in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) but has been neglected for decades due to a lack of development incentives. Another […]
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Recordbreaking BIO-Europe in Munich, but: back to 2019
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Recordbreaking BIO-Europe in Munich, but: back to 2019

The 29th BIO-Europe in Munich was able to boast record figures: around 6,000 participants for the first time, over 30,000 partnering meetings for the first time at what was already the largest European partnering event for biotech and pharma. However, many other figures are currently pointing back to 2019. Record figures and a much better […]
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Pierre Fabre SA licences immunotherapy from Atara Biotherapeutics
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Pierre Fabre SA licences immunotherapy from Atara Biotherapeutics

Pierre Fabre Laboratories SA has extended its global partnership with Atara Biotherapeutics, licencing tabelecleucel commercialisation rights for Northern America and beyond. Paris-based Pierre Fabre Laboratories SA already held a licence for the EU-approved tabelecleucel, an allogeneic T cell based second-line treatment of adult and pediatric patients two years of age and older with relapsed or […]
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Cellectis and AstraZeneca in US$2.2bn deal
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Cellectis and AstraZeneca in US$2.2bn deal

AstraZeneca plc has paid French cancer cell therapy developer Cellectis SA US$25m upfront and US$220m in equity in an US$2.2bn R&D deal for up to ten cell and gene therapies. Under the co-development agreement, that includes a US$80m equity investment and an option for a further equity investment of US$140m by AstraZeneca plc into Cellectis […]
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Scientists uncover new way viruses fight back against bacteria

Microbes in mouth reflect lifestyle choices

Lifestyle can shape the composition of beneficial bacteria and other microorganisms within the mouth, according to a new study led by Penn State biologists. The international team revealed how the “oral microbiome” differs over a range of subsistence strategies — from nomadic hunter gatherers to farmers to industrialized groups — and found that lifestyle, as […]
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Scientists uncover new way viruses fight back against bacteria

Fossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years ago

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird — which they say could be the largest known member of its kind — providing new information about animal life in northern South America millions of years ago. The evidence lies in the leg bone […]
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Scientists uncover new way viruses fight back against bacteria

Microbes in mouth reflect lifestyle choices

Lifestyle can shape the composition of beneficial bacteria and other microorganisms within the mouth, according to a new study led by Penn State biologists. The international team revealed how the “oral microbiome” differs over a range of subsistence strategies — from nomadic hunter gatherers to farmers to industrialized groups — and found that lifestyle, as […]
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Scientists uncover new way viruses fight back against bacteria

Fossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years ago

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird — which they say could be the largest known member of its kind — providing new information about animal life in northern South America millions of years ago. The evidence lies in the leg bone […]
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Detailing organelle division and segregation in Plasmodium falciparum

The malaria-causing parasite, P. falciparum, replicates through schizogony, a tightly orchestrated process where numerous daughter parasites are formed simultaneously. Proper division and segregation of one-per-cell organelles, like the mitochondrion and apicoplast, are essential, yet remain poorly understood. We developed a new reporter parasite line that allows visualization of the mitochondrion in blood and mosquito stages. […]
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