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Nutrition Technologies | September 19, 2022

On 19th September 2022 Nutrition Technologies completed an equity venture round of US$ 20m. The round was led by PTT Ventures and supported by Sumitomo Corporation, ING Sustainable Investments, Mandala Capital, as well as continued participation from existing investors: Openspace Ventures, SEEDs Capital and Hera Capital. The round was advised by ING Corporate Finance. The proceeds will be used to fund an expansion into new markets; launch new products; accelerate R&D; and create new strategi...

Lexogen | June 17, 2020

Lexogen, a transcriptomics and Next Generation Sequencing company, and OnRamp Bioinformatics, a provider of cloud-based genomic analysis and collaboration tools, announced availability for the QuantSeq 3' mRNA-Seq data analysis pipeline on ROSALIND™, the globally recognized discovery platform for scientists and researchers. The partnership enhances QuantSeq 3' mRNA-Seq data analysis with ROSALIND's visual data exploration and deep pathway interpretation with more than 50 knowle...

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...

Industrial Impact, Medical

HitGen Inc. | December 12, 2022

Shanghai Stock Exchange listed company HitGen Inc. announced that it has entered into a research agreement with Nitrase Therapeutics, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company deploying its NITROME platform to build a pipeline of therapies targeting nitrases, which is a new class of enzymes discovered by Nitrase that are involved in a broad variety of diseases. Nitrases have been implicated in numerous devastating diseases, including Parkinson's, cancer, respiratory diseases, fibrosis ...