"There's a lot of hope and hype still in the microbiome sphere," Ferring's president Per Falk tells Scrip, but the rewards could be considerable for companies that can deliver well-documented safety and efficacy data and do not take try to take shortcuts.

After a trial failure in 2016, four rival companies could produce pivotal data this year

Dmitry Kuzmin, managing partner, and Owen Smith, investment director, talk to In Vivo about 4BIO’s approach to venture investing in the biopharma sector: successes, red flags and targets for its second fund.

Scientists now understand that there are multiple, bi-directional links between gut and brain. They are using this knowledge to develop new treatments for some of the most challenging chronic conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and obesity.