月度归档： 2026 年 8 月

AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foo…

Why it matters: Actimed had previously retained S-oxprenolol only for ALS. Bringing the remaining rights back in-house broadens its pipeline options, although the drug has yet to enter clinical development.

Plantible Foods—a startup extracting RuBisCO, a highly-functional protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (duckwee…

The Gates Foundation awarded a $500,000 Grand Challenges grant to a University of Connecticut (UConn) researcher specializing in the development and commercialization of sustainable food products using algae and other natural materials.

Beyond Meat’s positive sales in international retail were offset by continued declines across the rest of the busi…

[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Black Sheep Foods] Black Sheep Foods—a startup form…

About 15 to 20 million people globally are impacted by spinal cord injuries, which can impair movement, limit their independence, and disrupt important bodily functions. For example, damage to the spinal cord that occurs at the neck disrupts signals that control the diaphragm, the main muscle used in breathing. The body does not naturally rebuild lost neural connections and there are no approved therapies that can regenerate the neurons and connections affected by a spinal cord injury. But that could change thanks to new research from scientists at Gladstone Institutes. 

Studies by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and at the University of California, San Francisco, have found that the protein tau, which is implicated in neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, may be linked to these such disorders in a way that differs greatly from the pathological pathway usually ascribed to it.