The female genital tract is naturally colonized by mixed communities of bacteria, known as the vaginal microbiome. When these communities are dominated by species such as Lactobacillus crispatus, they provide important protective functions in genital health. […]
Upcoming panel at Pharmabiotics Conference & Partnering 2022 will explore what microbiome drug developers can learn from another area of pharmaceutical innovation Live Biotherapeutic Products (LBPs) emerging from microbiome-related scientific innovation are novel and exciting […]
A research team at the University of Bologna has developed a new targeted cancer therapy based on the action of a genetically modified phage, a virus that infects bacteria. The study made the cover of […]
Pherecydes Pharma, a biotechnology company specializing in precision phage therapy to treat resistant and/or complicated bacterial infections, and BIOASTER, the first Institute for Technological Innovation in Microbiology, announce the implementation of research collaboration to use […]
Scientists at the Earlham Institute, Quadram Institute and University of East Anglia on the Norwich Research Park, have developed a new computational biology method to better understand IBD for targeted clinical treatments. By analysing specific […]
SNIPR BIOME ApS, a leading CRISPR and microbiome biotechnology company, is opening a 175 square meter state-of-the-art BSL2/GMO2-classified laboratory in Copenhagen. The new facilities will be among the largest GMO2 laboratories in Scandinavia and Northern […]
Microbiotica, a leading player in discovering and developing microbiome-based therapeutics and biomarkers, today announced the completion of a £50 million ($67 million) Series B financing round – the largest microbiome-related financing in Europe to date. […]
Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology(SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, alongside collaborators at Nanyang Technological University, have identified a novel phage lysin – […]
Benjamin Rubin was a post-doc in the lab of Jennifer Doudna—a Nobel-prize-winning scientist who pioneered CRISPR-Cas9—when a colleague got him thinking about a microbial ecology problem. He started to wonder: could it be possible to […]
Recipharm, a leading global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), today announced the acquisition of Arranta Bio, a prominent advanced therapy CDMO. Under the stewardship of Mark Bamforth and backed by Ampersand Capital Partners, the […]
This presentation was part of the Biotech Showcase at the Pharmabiotic Research Institute’s Annual Event, Pharmabiotics Conference & Partnering. The PRI is Europe’s leading microbiome regulatory science expertise center and was founded in 2010 […]