Financing - March 22, 2019
Zhejiang NHU invests €5.5 million in Danish biotech start-up
The Chinese fine chemical company Zhejiang NHU will invest €5.5 M in the biotech start-up CysBio to develop new and affordable biochemicals. CysBio is making cost-effective and novel biochemicals via sustainable fermentation processes. Through advanced synthetic biology and metabolic engineering approaches microorganisms are engineered to convert simple sugars into desired biochemical products. This makes it […]
Uncategorized - February 21, 2018
Cells can be engineered to produce high levels of valuable chemicals
A study made by scientists from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark, published by PNAS, suggests that cells can be engineered to overcome evolutionary pressure and produce high levels of valuable chemicals. Bioproduction of chemicals using engineered microorganisms is routinely demonstrated today, but only few bioprocesses are functional […]
Biotech Business - February 23, 2016
Bavarian Nordic enters research collaboration
Bavarian Nordic has entered into a joint collaboration with Evaxion Biotech, a Danish biotechnology company, and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), for the development of an MVA-BN-based vaccine against MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) using Evaxion’s computer-based technology to discover novel antigens. The same approach could potentially be used to target any other bacteria that have […]
