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Microbiotica to collaborate with Genentech

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United Kingdom

A short 18 months after its launch as a new company, Microbiotica Ltd has entered into a multi-year collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche group, to discover, develop and commercialise biomarkers, targets and medicines for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Microbiotica was spun out of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 2016 to research the human microbiome, a term used to describe the genomes of microorganisms in the gut, including at least 1,000 species of bacteria.

Targovax drops vaccine

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Norway

In the wake of unexpectedly positive clinical results from a trial testing the folfirinox chemotherapy regimen in patients with pancreatic cancer, after surgery, Targovax ASA has decided to drop development of its therapeutic vaccine for this indication.

Money for organs-on-chips

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United States

Emulate Inc, the developer of micro-engineered chips that mimic that activity of live human organs, has raised $36 million in a Series C financing round to finance the expansion of its organs-on-chips technology that is being used by the pharma industry to test candidate drugs for saf