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Phylagen | July 31, 2020

Phylagen, an award-winning biotech company specializing in decoding the environmental microbiome for indoor safety, today announced the national availability of its Phylagen Surface™ SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) test kit. Designed to be used by anyone on any surface, Phylagen Surface™ provides an early indication of outbreaks in shared spaces including nursing homes, schools, hospitals, restaurants, offices and retail shops."Surface testing can help curb the spread of COVID-19 bu...

FierceBiotech | February 04, 2020

Despite pulling off two megarounds in 2019, Passage Bio is returning to the funding well—but this time, it’s going public. The company filed for a $125 million IPO, which will bankroll the development of its three lead gene therapy programs in dementia, Krabbe disease and rare childhood disease GM1 gangliosidosis. Those programs were among five that Passage picked up in its partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s Gene Therapy Program in February 2019. At the sam...

Pressure BioSciences, Inc. | October 07, 2020

Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company"), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure-based instruments, consumables, and platform technology solutions to the worldwide biotechnology, biotherapeutics, and other industries, today announced the achievement of a critical milestone: the lock-in of final design specifications for the commercial production model of its proprietary, next-generation Ultra Shear Technology™ ("...

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AbbVie | February 11, 2021

AbbVie and Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a leading clinical-stage CRISPR genome altering biotechnology organization, reported today that they have gone into a cooperation and permit arrangement for the innovative work of fanciful antigen receptor (CAR)- T cell therapeutics. Albeit allogeneic, "off-the-shelf" CAR-T cell therapies have indicated early guarantee in some malignancy patients, the requirement for beating the dismissal of allogeneic CAR-T cells by the host immune system stays a ...