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Biotech start-up, Samsara Therapeutics, is the first company to take new laboratory space at
The Oxford Trust’s Wood Centre for Innovation. The Trust, a local charity encouraging the pursuit of science and enterprise, is developing life science laboratories at its Wood Centre for Innovation to increase capacity for the local ecosystem.
The £0.5 million development will deliver laboratory facilities to answer the significant demand that has been seen in the last year from science and tech start-ups and SMEs for lab space in Oxford’s Global Health and Life Sciences District, one of the UK’s leading technology clusters delivering lifesaving developments such as the COVID-19 vaccine. The Trust has received £0.1 million in funding towards the project via the Government’s Local Growth Fund, secured by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP).
The European startups that are hacking the ageing process
News Highlights: The European startups that are hacking the ageing process.
Today, for the first time in human history, more people are dying from diseases caused by old age – such as cancer and heart attacks – than from infectious diseases.
It’s also the first time in history that humans are just starting to understand what actually makes us older, with a whole new science emerging around concepts like telomere failure, epigenetic changes, and zombie cells.
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These forces have created a whole new ecosystem of biotech start-up companies and VC investors with a daring mission: to cure aging. While this is still dominated by the US, it is also an emerging force in European biotechnology.