Vicebio Announces $100 Million Series B Financing

Funding will support and accelerate development of next-generation multivalent respiratory virus vaccines

30-Sep-2024 - Vicebio Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel vaccines against life-threatening respiratory viral infections, announces a $100 million Series B financing led by TCGX with investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Avoro Ventures, venBio, and participation from UniQuest and founding ...

Autoantibodies Cause Lifelong Risk of Viral Infections

19-Jul-2024 - A new study shows that about two percent of the population develop autoantibodies against type 1 interferons, mostly later in life. This makes individuals more susceptible to viral diseases like COVID-19. The study, conducted by UZH researchers together with a USZ team, is based on an analysis of ...

Antiviral nasal spray for common colds or more severe respiratory diseases

Start-up G.ST Antivirals reports start of Phase II trial and announces appointment of Ronald Bruce Turner as new Chief Medical Officer

16-Apr-2024 - G.ST Antivirals, aspin-off from the Medical University of Vienna applying innovative, host cell-based strategies to develop broad-spectrum antivirals against respiratory tract infections, announced the appointment of Ronald Bruce Turner, MD, as new Chief Medical Officer (CMO). An expert in the ...

Attack and defence in the microverse

From harmless housemate to cunning kidnapper: Research team is shedding light on the regulatory mechanisms of small RNA molecules—which play a decisive role in viral infections of bacteria

08-Apr-2024 - Viruses need hosts. Whether it’s measles, the flu or coronavirus, viral pathogens cannot multiply or infect other organisms without the assistance of their hosts’ cellular infrastructure. However, humans are not the only ones affected by viruses: animals, plants and even microorganisms can all ...

AATec Medical starts collaboration with the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND for alpha-1 antitrypsin

SPRIND supports the development of ATL-105 for the treatment of viral respiratory diseases in various disease models

13-Feb-2024 - AATec Medical GmbH (AATec), a biotech company developing a multi-product platform based on recombinant alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT), announces the start of its collaboration with the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovations (SPRIND). This project is a key step in the development of the ...

Computer-engineered DNA to study cell identities

“We can follow with our eyes the color in a petri dish when we give a treatment”

12-Feb-2024 - A new computer program allows scientists to design synthetic DNA segments that indicate, in real time, the state of cells. Reported by the Gargiulo lab in “Nature Communications”, it will be used to screen for anti-cancer or viral infections drugs, or to improve gene and cell-based ...

Prepared for the next virus pandemic

13 institutions from 6 countries set up European research platform

11-Jan-2024 - In collaboration with 12 partners from 6 countries, Jena University Hospital is establishing the Antivirus Pandemic Preparedness EuropeAn pLatform (APPEAL), a European research initiative aimed at enhancing preparedness for future pandemics. This EU funded collaboration will establish a ...

Viral Impostors: Breakthrough for Virus Research

The penetration of viruses into cells can now be tracked with unprecedented accuracy thanks to innovative design for pseudoviruses

06-Nov-2023 - Pseudoviruses resemble impostors: although harmless, they are designed in such a way that they can hardly be distinguished from their dangerous relatives. This makes them an invaluable tool in virus research. They can be used to precisely analyze infection pathways of dangerous virus variants. A ...

The last stand - Plant stem cells put up a fight against viruses

17-Oct-2023 - Viruses are a threat to all organisms, including plants. A small group of plant stem cells, however, successfully defends itself from infection. Marco Incarbone, now at MPIMP Golm, Gabriele Bradamante and their co-authors at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) uncovered ...

Decreasing biodiversity may promote spread of viruses

New insight into the dynamics of infectious disease

28-Sep-2023 - How are environmental changes, loss of biodiversity, and the spread of pathogens connected? The answer is a puzzle. Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now described one piece of that puzzle in the journal eLife,* showing that the destruction of tropical rainforests harms ...