Another big life-science building is coming to the Seaport in Boston, this time with a component dedicated to STEM education and life sciences job training expected to introduce several hundred students to life sciences opportunities each year. This project at 701 Congress Street, also known as Seaport Circle, will transform a parking lot into a […]

Cambridge startup GentiBio has announced a collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to develop new engineered Treg (regulatory T cell) therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Tregs, formerly known as suppressor T cells, are a subpopulation of T cells that modulate the immune system, maintain tolerance to self-antigens, and prevent autoimmune disease. The collaboration brings together GentiBio’s proprietary engineered Treg platform for generating […]

Waltham-based ElevateBio has formed a new company – as yet un-named – co-founded by George Daley, M.D, Ph.D., and Boston Children’s Hospital to develop cell therapies based on a novel platform that generates functionally mature immune cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The new process overcomes the tendency of iPSCs to generate immature, embryonic […]

Boston’s Ginkgo Bioworks has announced it will acquire California biotech Zymergen in an all-stock transaction that values Zymergen at an approximately $300 million market capitalization. The transaction is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2023. Ginkgo’s platform is enabling biotechnology applications across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to industrial chemicals to […]

Proving that it’s not just the summer weather that’s hot, local biopharms continue to attract millions in funding. Case in point, Cambridge-based CAMP4 Therapeutics recently closed a $100 million Series B round to advance its lead regRNA (regulatory RNA) programs. regRNAs are considered to be part of the “dark side of the genome,” the 98% […]

London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind Technologies and the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI) have predicted the three-dimensional structures of nearly all proteins known to science and made the information freely and openly available to the scientific community via the AlphaFold protein structure database. The database is being expanded approximately 200 […]