Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. a leading Japanese dairy product company, announced its proprietary probiotic strain Bifidobacterium breve B-3 has received the approval of Individual Recognized Registration in South Korea for its clinically demonstrated efficacy in body fat […]
Boehringer Ingelheim today announced the acquisition of privately-held T3 Pharmaceuticals AG (“T3 Pharma”), a clinical stage Swiss biotech company, for an amount of up to 450 million CHF. T3 Pharma has developed a proprietary therapy […]
In a breakthrough for human milk science, researchers at City of Hope, Los Angeles, have dosed the first patient in a Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating a novel therapy for blood cancer patients undergoing allogeneic […]
Synlogic, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing novel, oral, non-systemically absorbed biotherapeutics to transform the care of serious diseases, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023, and provided […]
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect and kill bacteria, their natural hosts. But from a macromolecular viewpoint, phages can be viewed as nutritionally enriched packets of nucleotides wrapped in an amino acid shell. A study published […]
Health Canada authorizes functional claims that the probiotic strain DDS-1® “helps alleviate perceived stress and improve irritable bowel syndrome-related quality of life in adolescents and adults” The ‘gut-brain axis’ has become one of the most […]
MaaT Pharma (EURONEXT: MAAT – the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing Microbiome Ecosystem TherapiesTM (MET) dedicated to enhancing survival for patients with cancer, announced that the first patient has been treated as part of its Phase […]
Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB), a leading microbiome therapeutics company, reported on November 2nd financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023, including VOWST net sales of $7.6 million. Third quarter VOWST commercial […]
Up to 15 percent of children and five percent of adults are affected by the chronic inflammatory skin disease atopic dermatitis. Despite advanced therapy measures, the severe itching and eczema, especially on the elbows or […]
A new probiotic-guided chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T platform uses engineered bacteria to infiltrate and produce synthetic antigen targets, enabling CAR-T cells to find, identify, and destroy tumor cells in situ, according to a new study. The […]
A new study published online October 11, 2023 in Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. […]