BioTech Weekly - Aug 18-24, 2025 (Week 34)

🧬 This Week’s Top Biotech News

Here are some of the most exciting developments shaping biotechnology this week:

1️⃣ Tissue origami: Using light to study and control tissue folding 🔗 https://phys.org/news/2025-08-tissue-origami.html

2️⃣ Poplar tree discovery could help shape the future of energy and biomaterials 🔗 https://phys.org/news/2025-08-poplar-tree-discovery-future-energy.html

3️⃣ How RNAi is expanding from rare disease therapies to common conditions 🔗 https://www.labiotech.eu/podcast/how-rnai-is-expanding-from-a-therapy-of-choice-for-rare-disease-into-treating-common-conditions/

4️⃣ Satellite imagery-driven models supporting chickpea farmers 🔗 https://phys.org/news/2025-08-satellite-imagery-driven-chickpea-farmers.html

5️⃣ Inside Sanofi’s 2025 pipeline: Is “play-to-win” paying off? 🔗 https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/sanofi-pipeline-2025/

6️⃣ mRNA vaccine funding cuts: The impact on U.S. biotech and healthcare 🔗 https://www.labiotech.eu/trends-news/mrna-vaccine-funding-cuts/

7️⃣ From pasture to lab: The new biotech toolkit for cattle 🔗 https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/cattle-biotech/

8️⃣ 10 biotech companies to watch in Spain 🔗 https://www.labiotech.eu/best-biotech/biotech-companies-spain/

9️⃣ Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models 🔗 https://phys.org/news/2025-08-glimpse-protein-language.html

🔟 Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped people thrive in the Americas 🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250824031538.htm

1️⃣1️⃣ Tiny microbes may secretly rewire the brain before birth 🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250818103000.htm

1️⃣2️⃣ Scientists unlock the gene that lets bearded dragons switch sex 🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250820000749.htm

1️⃣3️⃣ RNA editing tool could de-risk gene therapy 🔗 https://phys.org/news/2025-08-rna-tool-gene-therapy.html

The biotech field continues to expand at the intersection of healthcare, energy, agriculture, and AI-driven discovery. 🚀

What breakthroughs are you most excited about?

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