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MEDICAL

PacBio | April 23, 2022

PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, today announced the release of a transformative capability to detect DNA methylation using the Sequel IIe and Sequel II Systems. This extends PacBio’s unique and highly capable HiFi sequencing technology to now include access to the epigenome, a second layer of genomic information often left unexplored due to fundamental limitations of common sequencing technologies. PacBio’s single-mole...

INDUSTRIAL IMPACT

MeMed | January 10, 2022

MeMed, a leader in host response technologies, announces a $93 million private financing round, bringing total funding in the Company to over $200 million, including support from the U.S. Department of Defense and EU Commission. Funds will be used to scale up manufacturing, accelerate commercialization and expand MeMed’s pioneering host immune response product portfolio. MeMed’s technology suite decodes the body’s immune response within minutes, providing p...

CELL AND GENE THERAPY

Biocytogen | June 23, 2021

Biocytogen, a worldwide biotechnology organization zeroed in on neutralizer drug innovative work (R&D) utilizing creative genetically designed creature models, today declared the fruitful culmination of another round of financing adding up to a huge number of dollars. The financing was together finished by Lake Bleu Capital, CPE, Octagon Capital and OrbiMed. Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was set up in 2009. Utilizing its primary quality altering innovation, th...

Yufan Biotechnologies | September 17, 2020

Exhaustion of T-cells is a key reason why CAR T-cell therapy may fail to control cancer. Recent work led by Xuebin Liao, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Science at Tsinghua University (Si et al., Cancer Cell 2020) shows that HPK1 (hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1) promotes T cell exhaustion via NFkB-Blimp1 activation and that blocking HPK1, either by gene knockout or by small-molecule inhibitors, is an attractive strategy to improve CAR T-cell immunotherapy. These innovative approaches a...