Microfluidics

Image: Joshua Coleman According to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), pharmaceutical companies should stockpile six weeks’ worth of goods “to help ensure the continuity of supply of medical goods into and out of the UK”. In a letter to the industry Steve Oldfield, Chief Commercial Officer, acknowledges the impact of COVID-19 on the sector […]

Image: Ani Kolleshi The US Department of Defence (DOD) has awarded Evotec’s Seattle-based subsidiary, Just-Evotec Biologics a contract worth $18.2 million to develop monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for treatment and/or prevention of COVID-19 Under the contract, Just–Evotec Biologics will design a manufacturing process for the production of Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) clinical supplies of two […]

Some of the most promising advances in cancer treatment have centred on immunotherapies that rev up a patient’s immune system to attack cancer. However, immunotherapies don’t work in all patients, and researchers have been searching for ways to increase their effectiveness. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have combined two immunotherapy strategies […]

British Patient Capital is committing $65m to SV Health Investors’ latest fund, SV7 Impact Medicine Fund (IMF), to turn scientific breakthroughs into biotech companies producing high impact precision medicine drugs for poorly treated diseases. The commitment increases British Patient Capital’s exposure to life sciences and health technology, building on a commitment to the Dementia Discovery […]

Understanding Animal Research (UAR), which promotes openness about animal research, has released a list of the ten organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures in medical, veterinary and scientific research. These statistics are freely available on the organisations’ websites as part of their ongoing commitment to transparency and openness […]

21 July 2020 Image: Anshu A Thanks to seed financing from Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) and Evotec, Quantro Therapeutics will generate a drug discovery pipeline, aiming to transform the precision and scope of cell-based compound screens. With the introduction of ‘Transcriptional Fingerprinting’ to drug discovery, Quantro intends to revamp the scope of pharmacologic interventions […]

Image: Dimitri Houtteman A COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca has generated an immune response in a study of roughly 1,000 patients, according to interim results. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has responded to the results of the Oxford – AstraZeneca vaccine trial. A Covid-19 vaccine being developed by […]

20 July 2020 Image: Toa Heftiba Sphere Fluidics and Heriot-Watt University have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. The grant will facilitate the development of novel droplet generator instrumentation, which will be used to expand Sphere Fluidics’ portfolio of microfluidic instruments for advanced biologics discovery and […]

14 July 2020 Image: Denys Nevozhai Merck has opened its M Lab Collaboration Centre in Shanghai, the largest of the company’s nine centres worldwide. “With the booming pharmaceutical industry in Asia and greater emphasis on novel drug therapies, we see an increase in R&D on leading-edge treatments including cell and gene therapies in China,” said […]

7 July 2020 Rutherford’s independent network currently consists of four cancer treatment centres in Newport, Reading, Bedlington and Liverpool. It will draw patients from all over the UK offering pharma and CROs access to patients through more than 170 referring oncologists. Each of the Rutherford Cancer Centres has diagnostics including MRI, CT, and proton beam […]

Researchers have developed a human cell ‘membrane on a chip’ that allows continuous monitoring of how drugs and infectious agents interact with our cells. It may soon be used to test potential drug candidates for COVID-19. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, Cornell University and Stanford University, say their device could mimic any cell […]

Share Share Tweet Email Could marine alga be a remedy against infections and skin cancer? Could marine alga be a remedy against infections and skin cancer? 6 July 2020 Image: Shane Stagner Marine organisms and their microbial symbionts are invaluable sources of new medicines for human diseases. Natural products from the sea have four times […]

Image: CDC A group of Lithuanian and Kurdish scientists have raised a hypothesis that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine could protect children from COVID-19. The hypothesis is based on the discovered sequence similarity of the 30 amino acid residues between glycoproteins of SARS-CoV-2, measles and rubella viruses. An experimental analysis is required in […]

30 June 2020 Image: Glen Carrie In lab tests, virus-like DNA structures coated with viral proteins provoke a strong immune response in human B cells, by Ann Trafton, MIT News Office By folding DNA into a virus-like structure, MIT researchers have designed HIV-like particles that provoke a strong immune response from human immune cells grown in a […]

30 June 2020 Image: Lucas Vasques PharmEnable, has closed a £1.8 million seed financing to support its transition into a drug development company. The Cambridge, UK-based drug discovery company uses advanced medicinal chemistry and AI-enabled approaches to design the next generation of highly complex and specific drug candidate molecules. It aims to develop new treatments […]

29 June 2020 Image: Clay Banks Evotec, Samsara BioCapital, KCK have launched Autobahn Labs, a novel virtual incubator partnering with top academic and research institutions to catalyse early-stage drug discovery and development. Autobahn Labs also announced a first-in-kind strategic collaboration with UCLA Technology Development Group to identify and advance the most promising areas of scientific […]