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Neoclease Wins Merck’s 2025 Biotech Grant for AI-Powered Gene Therapies Targeting Parkinson’s and Genetic Disorders

(IN BRIEF) Merck has awarded its 2025 North American Advance Biotech Grant to Neoclease, a Boston-based startup developing AI-designed gene-editing therapies for Parkinson’s disease and other monogenic disorders. Neoclease will benefit from Merck’s technologies, contract testing, regulatory guidance, and hands-on … Read the full press release

Fraunhofer unveils synthetic DNA-based microchip platform for sustainable mass data storage

(IN BRIEF) Fraunhofer institutes have launched the BIOSYNTH project, developing a high-throughput microchip platform that uses synthetic DNA to address the growing data storage crisis. This innovative solution promises a space-saving, low-cost, and energy-efficient alternative for mass data storage, with … Read the full press release

University of Liverpool awarded £2M to build DNA synthesis facility

The new laboratory will utilise expertise that already exists in the University’s Centre for Genomic Research and Institute of Integrative Biology Liverpool,  7-4-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Scientists at the University of Liverpool have been awarded £2M to build a state-of-the-art DNA synthesis … Read the full press release

The University of Nottingham received £14.3M funding to develop Synthetic Biology Research Centre

Nottingham, UK, 30-1-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The University of Nottingham has received funding to develop a Synthetic Biology Research Centre which will provide groundbreaking sustainable routes to important chemicals. Thanks to funding from Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and … Read the full press release