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July 18, 2022

Call it techbio or biotech, more European VCs are betting on life sciences

From new drug discovery methods to better materials, US and European VCs want a piece of the future of biology


Photography by Diane Serik from Unsplash

Open-source drug discovery. Personalised medicine. Sustainable alternatives to jet fuel. 

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