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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...

AI

PathAI, Labcorp | March 09, 2021

PathAI, a global supplier of artificial intelligence-powered (AI-powered) innovation for use in pathology research, and Labcorp, a main global life sciences company, today declared the expanding of their essential organization in the field of AI-powered pathology. The coordinated effort expands on Labcorp's past investment in PathAI and the companies' cooperation on a progression of projects, remembering the deployment of PathAI algorithms for clinical trials oversaw by Labcorp Drug Deve...

RESEARCH

BigHat Biosciences, Inc. | January 12, 2022

BigHat Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company with an artificial intelligence/machine learning-guided antibody discovery and development platform, announced the successful completion of the first stage of a previously undisclosed research collaboration and licensing agreement with Amgen applying BigHat’s platform for multi-objective optimization of a next-generation antibody. BigHat’s antibody design platform integrates a high-speed characterization with AI/ML tech...

MEDICAL

Kintor Pharma | December 29, 2021

Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing innovative small molecule and biological therapeutics, provided an update on its multi-regional study of proxalutamide for the treatment of COVID-19 infection. Statistical criteria were not met at an interim analysis of the phase III outpatient study, designed for testing efficacy and safety of proxalutamide for treating COVID-19 in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients. At the interim analysis, 348 patients with mild-...