French Manufacturing Plant Launches to Make Cell Therapy Cheap and Scalable
The Bordeaux-based company Treefrog Therapeutics has opened an industrial demonstration plant with the aim of producing cell therapies 10 times more efficiently than with current technology.
The €2M plant occupies an area around a fifth...
New evidence supports long-debated mode of evolution
Jun 9 2020
A team working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found evidence to support a long-debated mode of evolution, revealing how evolution captures environmental variation to teach old genes new tricks: Sweat...
Virginia Tech researcher develops new ‘fat burning’ molecule with potential to treat obesity
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jun 8 2020
Obesity affects more than 40 percent of adults in the United States and 13 percent of the global population. With obesity comes a variety of other interconnected diseases...
Milkweed, only food source for monarch caterpillars, ubiquitously contaminated
Harmful pesticides found in Western Monarch breeding ground
Credit: Photo by Angela Laws, Xerces Society.
RENO, Nev. – New evidence identifies 64 pesticide residues in milkweed, the main...
Potential Biomarker Identified for Prescreening Donors’ hMSCs Growth Capacity and Potency
Researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore say they have identified a potential biomarker for prescreening donors for their human mesenchymal stem cells’ (MSCs) growth capacity and potency.
“With the...
UK Startup Launches with €10M to Detect Epigenetic Signs of Cancer in Blood
A seed round of €10.1M will fund the launch of the University of Oxford spinout Base Genomics, which aims to improve cancer detection by measuring epigenetic changes to tumor DNA circulating in the blood.
The...
Lesaffre expands in China with Biohymn Biotechnology stake – FoodBev.com
Lesaffre has acquired a majority stake in Biohymn Biotechnology, a Chinese company specialising in the production of yeast and yeast extracts, for an undisclosed sum.
The deal aligns with Lesaffre’s goal of expanding its presence...
Climate change has degraded productivity of shelf sea food webs
Credit: Claire Widdicombe
A shortage of summer nutrients as a result of our changing climate has contributed to a 50% decline in important North East Atlantic plankton...
Graduate Aptitude Test in Biotechnology: Apply by June 18 – Mathrubhumi English
Applications have been invited for the Graduate Aptitude Test - Biotechnology (GAT-B), an examination to rank the participants for admission to the various DBT-supported PG programmes in participating institutions.
This examination was previously known as...
Boost For Inflammatory Disease Biotech NodThera With €49M Series B
The UK-US biotech NodThera has raised €48.7M in Series B funding to progress its drug candidate through clinical trials for the treatment of inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease.
This round follows an impressive...
