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European consortium awarded grant to develop novel delivery technique for nucleic acid therapeutics

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A European consortium has been awarded Eurostars funding for WiFIX, a project that aims to overcome the current delivery...

Laverock Therapeutics reports key oncology research milestones

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Laverock Therapeutics has announced key in-vivo functional milestones across its T-cell and macrophage oncology programmes for solid tumour indications....

Base to Base biotech podcast 63: Cell and gene therapy logistics, and turning back the Parkinson’s clock

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This week, we have a conversation with Mark Sawicki, president and CEO of Cryoport Systems, and we chat with...

Sofinnova Partners collaborating with AWS to scale AI in life sciences innovation

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Life sciences venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to embed AI...

Mitochondria may help immune cells fight bacteria by changing shape

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Animals have several built-in ways to defend themselves against infection. A new study by FMI researchers and their collaborators...

First gene therapy delivers missing gene to infant’s brain

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An eight-month-old infant with a severe genetic epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to receive an...

New therapy may reverse autism-related brain deficits

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Researchers have identified a promising new therapeutic strategy for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A research team led by Kim...

Biomarker-guided immunosuppression following kidney transplantation successfully tested

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An international research team coordinated by the Medical University of Vienna has demonstrated in a clinical trial that Torque-Teno-virus-guided...

Data show cardiometabolic benefits of Type 2 diabetes treatment

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Sparrow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced positive phase 2 clinical data for clofutriben, its lead investigational 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1...

Orphan Drug Designation for potential best-in-class ADC for sarcoma

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SOTIO Biotech has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to...

FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for spinal muscular atrophy treatment

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Biogen Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted salanersen Breakthrough Therapy Designation for...

Servier acquiring Edgewise Therapeutics’ muscular dystrophy business

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Servier has entered into an agreement to acquire the muscular dystrophy business of Edgewise Therapeutics Inc. for up to...

Antibody fragment prevents haemorrhages associated with new Alzheimer’s treatments

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In 2025, the European Medicines Agency approved two antibodies for Alzheimer's disease: lecanemab (Leqembi, from Biogen) and donanemab (Kisunla,...

Fast Track Designation for Lynch syndrome-associated cancers treatment

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Nouscom, a clinical-stage biotech company developing next-generation immunotherapies to treat cancer at all stages, has announced that the U.S....

Positive data from linear IgA disease study

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JJP Biologics has announced positive interim data from its ongoing phase 1b trial evaluating nebaprubart, also known as JJP-1212,...

Base to Base biotech podcast 62: A new approach to strokes

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This week, we have a conversation with Revalesio president Greg Archambeau about tackling strokes, and other conditions, with a...

Blood and biomarker testing service launches in Scotland for earlier Alzheimer’s diagnosis

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Scottish Brain Sciences (SBS) has launched a new and accredited clinical laboratory service offering blood‑based biomarker and cerebrospinal fluid...

Partnership looks to accelerate next‑generation brain treatments

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Deep Science Ventures (DSV), a UK-based deeptech venture creator, and Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), a life sciences service dedicated...

Positive results for C. difficile vaccine

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Idorsia Ltd has announced additional positive clinical results for IDOR-1134-2831, its vaccine targeting Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) in a...

Positive results from regenerative cardiac patch platform

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Repairon, a biotechnology company developing regenerative cardiac therapies, has announced that clinical results evaluating its engineered human heart muscle...

First human SMUG1 structures reveal how cells repair DNA

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Researchers have captured the first atomic structures of human SMUG1, an enzyme that helps cells repair damaged DNA. The findings...