Antiverse Raises $9.3M Series A To Advance AI Antibody Platform
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - UK-based Antiverse, a biotech startup developing AI-designed therapeutic antibodies for hard-to-target disease proteins, has raised $9.3 million in a Series A round led by Soulmates Ventures, with participation from Innovation Investment Capital, DOMiNO V…
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French synbio baCta snaps €7M: Can AI yeast crack the €1B astaxanthin market?
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Industrial biotech startup baCta has raised €7 million in seed funding to accelerate its vision of replacing petrochemical…
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Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to tackle potato late blight in Europe
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Mycoverse, an agritechspin-out from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) developing fungal-basedbiological crop protection, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed equity funding.The round was co-led...
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Outpost Bio raises $3.5M pre-seed for human microbiology models
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Outpost Bio, a companyfocused on decoding complex interactions in human biology, has raised a $3.5million pre-seed round co-led by Merantix Capital and Seedcamp, withparticipation from OpenSeed VC, De...
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Human Brain Cells On a Chip Learned To Play Doom In a Week
BeauHD / slashdot - Researchers at Cortical Labs used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week. "While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world applicatio…
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Bedfordshire biotech Tozaro secures £6M from Mercia to scale gene therapy platform
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Modern medicine is facing a significant pricing crisis. While breakthrough gene therapies offer potential cures for rare genetic…
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Eli Lilly (LLY) Stock Acquires Orna Therapeutics for Up to $2.4 Billion
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Eli Lilly (LLY) announced a deal to buy Orna Therapeutics for up to $2.4 billion in cash to expand its cell therapy capabilities. Orna’s lead asset ORN-252 uses circular RNA technology to create CAR-T therapies inside patients’ bodies for autoimmune …
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QT Sense raises €4M to advance real-time single-cell analysis
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Dutch startup QT Sense has raised €4 million to further develop Quantum Nuova, its quantum-based platform that monitors cellular stress in living cells at single-cell resolution. The funding includes a €3 million seed round led by Cottonwood Technology Fu…
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Twogee Biotech Raises €2.2M Seed Round To Advance Circular Biomass Technology
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Munich-based Twogee Biotech, a biotech startup creating custom enzyme solutions for the industrial conversion of biomass into sustainable raw materials, has closed a €2.16 million seed funding round. Investors include High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapita…
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Amazon Just Secured the First New American Copper in a Decade. Bacteria Did the Work.
Maria Garcia / implicator - AWS just became the first buyer of American-mined copper in over a decade. The source? Bacteria eating rock in an Arizona desert. As AI data centers consume 47 tonnes of copper per megawatt, Amazon is securing supply chains before the squeeze hits.
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Nuclera Raises $87M Series C To Advance Antibody Research
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Biotech firm Nuclera has raised an additional $12 million increasing its total Series C funding to $87 million. The extension round was led by Elevage Medical Technologies and Jonathan Milner with participation from existing investors including British Bu…
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FluoSphera zips CHF 1.15M seed for 3D human organ models that cut drug failures
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Developing new medicines is a long and costly process, taking 10 to 15 years and billions of dollars.…
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IVFmicro Secures £3.5M To Improve IVF Accessibility And Outcomes
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - IVFmicro, a University of Leeds spinout focused on improving IVF outcomes by enhancing embryo quality and quantity per cycle, has raised £3.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Northern Gritstone and supported by the Innovate UK Investor Pa…
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Melt&Marble Raises €7M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Melt&Marble, a Gothenburg, Sweden-based company using precision fermentation to produce designer fats, raised €7M in Series A funding. The round was led by Industrifonden, with participation from European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Beiersdorf, Valio, …
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Sofinnova Partners Raises €650M To Support Biopharma And MedTech Innovation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Life sciences venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners has closed its latest flagship fund, Sofinnova Capital XI, at €650 million ($750 million), significantly surpassing its original fundraising target. Based in Paris, London, and Milan, Sofinnova Capital…
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James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead At 97
BeauHD / slashdot - ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: James D. Watson, who entered the pantheon of science at age 25 when he joined in the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of the most momentous breakthroughs in the history of science, died on Thursday …
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Swedish biotech Cellcolabs raises $12M to make stem cell therapies mainstream
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The global demand for regenerative therapies is reaching new heights, but researchers and patients alike continue to face…
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What Really Doomed Napoleon’s Army? Scientists Find New Clues in DNA
Becky Ferreira / 404media - DNA from the teeth of French soldiers that died in the disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow revealed previously unidentified pathogens.
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Nobel Prize awarded to trio for immune tolerance research
Colin Ryan / siliconrepublic - The trio of new Nobel laureates were awarded the prize for their research on the immune system and how it tolerates our own tissues.Read more: Nobel Prize awarded to trio for immune tolerance research
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New research links caffeine to slower aging at the cellular level
techspot - A recently published study confirms what caffeine enthusiasts have suspected all along: the naturally occurring stimulant is not only great for waking up the mind but may also help keep the body healthier. Researchers are now shedding light on the fascina…
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