Biotechnology

AGTC Appoints Ophthalmology and Retinal Disease Specialist and Industry R&D Veteran Yehia Hashad, MD to its Board of Directors

08/25/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: GAINESVILLE, Fla. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare retinal diseases, today announced the addition of Yehia Hashad, MD to its Board of Directors.…

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Pluto Biosciences Launches Cloud-based Collaborative Life Sciences Platform for Academia, Biotech and Pharma Organizations

08/25/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Pluto Biosciences, a biotech software startup, launched its cloud-based, collaborative life sciences platform that leverages technology developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The Pluto platform simplifies secure, collaborative data sharing and bioinformatics analysis for academic, biotech, and pharmaceutical organizations. The Pluto platform was built to…

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Soligenix Announces Positive Preclinical Data with Multiple Heat Stable Filovirus Vaccine Candidates

08/24/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Soligenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, announced today positive data demonstrating the efficacy of multiple filovirus vaccine candidates in NHPs, including thermostabilized multivalent vaccines…

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Assembly Bio Selects Fourth HBV Core Inhibitor Candidate for Advancement Into Clinical Development

08/24/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Assembly Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASMB), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing innovative therapeutics targeting hepatitis B virus (HBV), today announced it has selected a fourth core inhibitor candidate, ABI-4334 (4334), that has been optimized for potency, to advance into clinical development.…

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Peptilogics and Cerebras Systems Partner on AI Solutions to Advance the Future of Peptide Therapeutics

08/24/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: SUNNYVALE, Calif. & PITTSBURGH, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute, and Peptilogics, a biotechnology platform company and an emerging leader in leveraging computation to design novel therapeutics, today announced a collaboration to accelerate the development cycle of peptide therapeutics through AI. Leveraging the revolutionary Cerebras…

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Qualigen calls it quits on COVID antiviral after pouring millions into R&D

08/23/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: The FDA wanted a couple more clinical studies for Qualigen’s investigational COVID-19 antiviral before human testing, but the biotech is calling it quits instead. Shares of the company plunged nearly 20% to $1.34 as the markets opened Tuesday, underscoring the risk that small companies take on when trying to jump…

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To prepare for the next big health crisis, Canada needs to strengthen its biotech sector

08/20/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Subsidies, tax breaks and funding will keep momentum going in Canada’s promising biomanufacturing industry. Why weren’t we better prepared? The frantic search for gloves and masks, then ventilators and life-saving drugs, and then the scramble to ramp up testing, slow the deaths in long-term care and deploy vaccines — the…

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How nanotechnology helps mRNA Covid-19 vaccines work

12/09/2020

Excerpt from the Article: While the first two Covid-19 vaccines relying on messenger RNA technology speed toward regulatory approval in the U.S., it’s worth remembering the vehicle that gets them where they need to go in the body. Lipid nanoparticles are the fatty molecular envelopes that help strands of mRNA — the genetic messenger for…

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Tough yet flexible: Biologically inspired adhesive may improve fetal surgery

11/25/2020

Excerpt from the Article: In children with spina bifida, the neural tube that forms the spinal cord and brain doesn’t close during early prenatal development. That leaves the nerves of the spinal cord exposed to potential damage from fetal movement and the surrounding amniotic fluid. While surgeons can repair spina bifida soon after birth, the…

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Ufovax Announces Its Self-Assembling NanoParticles as the Next-Generation Vaccine Solution for COVID-19

09/23/2020

Excerpt from the Press Release: WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ufovax, LLC, (Ufovax), a vaccine biotechnology company based on the patented One-component Self-Assembling protein NanoParticle® (1c-SApNP®) vaccine design and manufacturing platform invented by Associate Professor Jiang Zhu, PhD, of Scripps Research (La Jolla, CA), announced the advancement toward Phase I clinical trials of its next-generation SARS-CoV-2 (aka “COVID-19”)…

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