The firms hope academic research can yield first-in-class therapies and spinout companies. Also, Yale unveils research alliances with three biotechs.

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Harnessing the power of Darwinian natural selection to find therapeutic oncolytic adenoviruses is one of the aims of the Oxford, UK-based start-up PsiOxus Therapeutics Ltd. Another is to develop the first therapies for the wasting syndromes cachexia and sarcopenia.