Medical Device Usability

Boost Biomes | June 25, 2020

US-based food and agriculture biotech startup Boost Biomes and global crop nutrition company, Yara International ASA, announced today the close of Boost's USD 5 million series A equity round as well as a joint development agreement between the two companies. Yara's investment amounts to USD 3 million. Existing investors, including Viking Global Investors and Y Combinator, participated in the close.With this partnership in place, Boost and Yara will expand current efforts to co-deve...

Cell and Gene Therapy

HDT Bio Corp. | January 17, 2022

HDT Bio Corp., a U.S. developer of immunotherapies for oncology and infectious diseases and SENAI CIMATEC, an important Brazilian education, research, and innovation institute, have dosed the first healthy volunteers in Brazil in a Phase 1 trial of HDT Bio’s RNA COVID-19 vaccine, HDT-301. SENAI CIMATEC will conduct the clinical trial under the name Vaccine RNA MCTI-CIMATEC-HDT. The vaccine uses HDT Bio’s proprietary lipid nanoparticle RNA-delivery technology. Read More

Cell and Gene Therapy

iXCells Biotechnologies | September 30, 2022

iXCells Biotechnologies a high growth provider of cell-based products and discovery services to the academic, biotech and pharmaceutical communities worldwide, with special focus on primary and induced pluripotent stem cell derived cellular models, today announced receiving a growth investment from Connecticut-based Great Point Partners a private investment firm focusing on the healthcare industry. “iXCells is delighted to join GPP’s portfolio of ...

PHASE Scientific | June 22, 2020

PHASE Scientific, a high-growth biotechnology company that develops innovative sample preparation technologies, announced new findings at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting II. The study presented by MD Anderson Cancer Center evaluates the efficacy of PHASE Scientific's liquid phase DNA isolation method (PHASIFY™) in improving cancer liquid biopsy sensitivity.Early-stage cancer diagnostics and cancer screening applications are limited ...