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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.

DNA Script, in collaboration with GE HealthCare, has been awarded up to $26 million in funding for a four-year initiative from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The award will support the advancement of the Flexible Automation for Scalable Health (FLASH) program, focused on the development of scalable cell-free DNA bioproduction capabilities and powered in part by DNA Script’s enzymatic DNA synthesis (EDS) technology and SYNTAX® platform.

随着全球农业面临着在最大限度提高产量的同时尽量减少环境影响的日益增长的压力，寻找合成农药的可持续替代品的呼声愈发强烈。传统对化学投入品的依赖虽然对短期生产力有效，但会退化土壤健康并对长期的作物质量产生负面影响。我们在巴西帕索丰杜大学的研究团队将目光转向了一种充满潜力却常被忽视的资源：钝顶螺旋藻（Spirulina platensis）。