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New muscle therapy gets fast-track boost

Berlin start-up could soon be helping children with previously incurable muscle diseases thanks to an accelerated approval process

01-Aug-2023 - To help bring therapies for rare muscle diseases in children to market sooner, the Berlin-based start-up MyoPax, a spin-off from the Max Delbrück Center and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has now received a boost from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company has been ...

‘Human Inks’ for 3D Printing of Human Tissues

Animal Free 3D Bioprintin: HU3DINKS Project Brings Together Expert Companies

26-Jul-2023 - Biofabrication or 3D bioprinting aims to create tissue constructs for numerous applications including animal free testing, drug screening and regenerative medicine. One crucial aspect of the technology is the use of suitable materials to enable the 3D printing of living cells which are called ...

Cell therapy meets the very latest in gene editing: start-up Cimeio joins forces with Prime Medicine

Repairs within the body: The start-up wants to make blood stem cell transplants easier on the body

04-Jul-2023 - Gentler cell therapies for blood cancer and other serious blood diseases – this is the goal that Cimeio Therapeutics, a University of Basel spin-off, has set itself. The start-up has been able to make a great step forward together with a company that offers a pioneering method for the targeted ...

New biotech venture PHIOGEN to tackle the global threat of antimicrobial resistance

By optimizing nature’s defenders, the team has produced unprecedented phage treatments

29-Jun-2023 - The new biotech venturePHIOGENis a spin-off company fromBaylor College of Medicine’sTAILOR Labs, one of the United States only academic phage therapy cores with a decade’s worth of revolutionary research related to bacteriophages, viruses that infect and destroy bacteria. The company made its ...

Waters Corporation and Princeton University Announce Multi-Year Research Collaboration

Agreement to take on real-world challenges in biologics and materials research

28-Jun-2023 - Waters Corporation announced a multi-year research collaboration with Princeton University that will enable scientists, faculty, and students to work together to bring theirdiverse skills and backgrounds to solve complex challenges in biochemistry and materials science. "Solving the biggest ...

Bioprinting of Highly Complex Structures Now Possible

Cooperation of UpNano and BIO INX yields further advancement: Two-stage 3D-printing of organ-on-chip devices with encapsulated live cells is possible

20-Jun-2023 - The launch of a new biocompatible hydrogel resin marks the begin of a new era in bioprinting. The novel resin allows 2-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D-printing from micro- to meso-scale at highest resolution. The reactivity and easy processing of the material permits the fabrication of complex and ...

New robotics platform for accelerated antibiotic development

Leibniz-HKI and Analytik Jena develop facility for automated testing of drug candidates

19-Jun-2023 - A new robotics platform was inaugurated at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) on Thursday, June 15, 2023, in the presence of Thuringia's State Secretary for Research, Innovation and Economic Development. The highly modular facility serves the ...

Novel insights into one's own body via smartphone

trinamiX is working on previously impossible smartphone features

06-Jun-2023 - trinamiX GmbH, a leader in biometric and infrared sensing solutions, envisions a future of smartphones with features that have been deemed impossible: Smartphones equipped with trinamiX Consumer Spectroscopy – a built-in near-infrared spectrometer that grants molecular insights into the body. For ...

Brain-computer interface enables thought-controlled walking after spinal cord injury

29-May-2023 - ONWARD Medical N.V, a medical device company that develops therapies to restore movement, function and independence in people with spinal cord injury (SCI), announced a paper in Nature showing that using a wireless brain-computer interface (BCI), thoughts can be used to control ARC therapy. The ...

New vaccine concept against SARS-CoV-2 successfully tested

University of Basel and biotech start-up RocketVax present a vaccine concept that could lead to a new generation of vaccines

25-May-2023 - Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach for a vaccine against COVID-19. This vaccine is based on a modified coronavirus that can enter body cells and trigger an effective immune response but cannot multiply in the body. In animal studies, the vaccine effectively ...