In a study by a research group at Baylor College of Medicine, oral administration of a commercially available probiotic bacterial strain was found to improve dry eye disease in an animal model. The findings were […]
Metagen Therapeutics, a company focusing on drug discovery and development based on intestinal microbiome-based therapeutics for various diseases, has completed its Series A funding in 2 rounds, raising a total of 1.7 billion yen. Sparx […]
Verb Biotics LLC., a microbiome innovation company, today announced that they have acquired YSOPIA Bioscience’s strain and IP portfolio targeted for human health and wellness. The acquisition of YSOPIA’s strain portfolio includes one of the […]
APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading SFI research centre based at UCC (University College Cork), has joined forces with BowelScreen and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, as part of 8 partner organisations from 5 European countries […]
TargEDys and Biocodex have been partners since 2019, when Biocodex became a shareholder and board member of TargEDys. Soon after, Biocodex became the distributor of TargEDys’ leading PreciBiomic, Symbiosys Satylia®, in France, then in Portugal […]
Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRB) and Nestlé Health Science today announced that VOWST™ (fecal microbiota spores, live-brpk) is now commercially available for patients. VOWST, formerly called SER-109, is the first and only U.S. Food and Drug […]
Complicated, hard-to-heal wounds are a growing medical problem and there are currently only two drugs approved with proven efficacy. In a new study on humans, researchers at Uppsala University show that treatment with a specific […]
BiomeSense, a biotech company unlocking the vast health benefits of the microbiome through novel “smart bathroom” hardware technology and advanced bioinformatics, announced the close of its oversubscribed $3 million funding round. Led by Bluestein Ventures, the financing […]
The National Institutes of Health is now enrolling participants in a landmark initiative to advance nutrition research. Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program, or NPH, is working with 14 […]
Apsen Farmaceutica, Lallemand Health Solutions’ commercial partner in Brazil, is publishing new positive results on the influence of Cerebiome® on the gut microbiota of individuals with mild anxiety. The positive influence of Cerebiome® on the gut microbiota […]
Solarea Bio, a clinical stage biotechnology company based in Cambridge, MA developing food-derived microbial-based solutions to aid human health, announced today a first closing of $15m in a Series B financing led by S2G Ventures with continued participation of […]