CAMBRIDGE, UK 30 March 2021 – EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the synthetic biology company developing a desktop platform for scalable, high-fidelity and rapid gene synthesis, today announced the appointment of Michael Daniels, PhD, as Head of Product Management. In this role, Dr Daniels will be focused on the development and introduction of Evonetix’s first product, a DNA desktop writer. He will work closely with the prospective customers and users of the Company’s products as well as the team’s engineers and research scientists.
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Turnover at leading pharmaceutical and biotech product development consultancy Boyds has surged by a record-breaking 25 percent as demand for its specialist services continues to grow.
AMSBIO, in association with Nordmark Biochemicals, is now offering animal-free Collagenase and Neutral Protease enzymes, isolated from Clostridium histolyticum, for in vitro tissue dissociation leading to high yields of viable cells.
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States and Cambridge, UK – 25 March 2021–Sanford Health (‘Sanford’), a leading US-based healthcare delivery system provider and Congenica, the digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform peoples’ lives, today announce a genomics partnership focused on providing answers for patients and families with hard to diagnose rare diseases.
PrecisionLife today announces that it has acquired its long-term Danish technology development partner GenoKey ApS, bringing together the leaders in combinatorial analytics and large-scale genomic analysis, and enabling PrecisionLife to continue its expansion as an AI-enabled precision medicine company. Financial details of the paper-based transaction were not disclosed.
Cambridge, UK, 23 March 2021: PhoreMost Ltd., the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to ‘Drugging the Undruggable®’ disease targets, today announced it has completed an oversubscribed £33m ($46m) Series B investment round. The round was led by BGF, the UK’s most active growth economy investor, and included new investors XtalPi Inc., Astellas Venture Management, Trend Investment Group, and o2h ventures. Existing investors Parkwalk Advisors, Morningside Ventures, and Jonathan Milner also contributed.
Cambridge, UK, 17 March 2021: CN Bio, a leading developer of single and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), otherwise known as organ-on-a-chip (OOC), today announced the commercial launch of its new PhysioMimix™ OOC Multi-Organ MPS. The next-generation platform combines CN Bio’s in vitro 3D liver model, whose phenotype and functions mimic that in vivo, with a range of other organs to more accurately recapitulate the multi-organ and systemic effects observed in humans.
Manufactured in dedicated clean-rooms with mandated changeovers before new production cycles - AMSBIO introduces new pHelper-Kan plasmid DNA optimized for Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) manufacturing.
Adeno-associated virus is a non-enveloped virus that can be engineered to efficiently deliver DNA sequences of interest into target cells with a low immunogenicity. Because of these unique characteristics, AAV-mediated genome editing has emerged as a highly promising gene delivery method.
Glasgow, UK, 17 March 2021 – Amphista Therapeutics, a leader in next generation targeted protein degradation (TPD) approaches, today announced the closing of a $53 million (£38 million) Series B financing round. The round was co-led by Forbion and Gilde Healthcare. Additional investors in this round include Novartis Venture Fund, and Eli Lilly and Company, joining existing investor BioMotiv and founding investor Advent Life Sciences.