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4 Mar

L’Oréal Invests in Swiss Longevity Biotech Company Timeline

L’Oréal Invests in Swiss Longevity Biotech Company Timeline
PARIS — L’Oréal has taken a minority stake in Swiss longevity biotech company Timeline. Terms of the deal, which was made through the wonder giant’s strategic enterprise capital fund Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development, weren't disclosed. Timeline was founded in 2007 by Chris Rinsch and Patrick Aebischer as a by-product of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It develops solutions for longevity within the food, business and health categories. Rinsch serves as Timeline president, and Aebischer is its chairman. “Timeline has developed a proprietary molecule, Mitopure, that recycles and rejuvenates aging mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells,” L’Oréal said in a press release Tuesday. “This breakthrough technology is backed by greater than a decade of research by distinguished scientists, multiple gold standard clinical studies and an unparalleled...
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22 Sep

L’Oréal to Make Investment in Chinese Biotech Company –

L’Oréal to Make Investment in Chinese Biotech Company –
PARIS – L’Oréal has agreed to take a minority stake in Shinehigh Innovation, a Chinese innovation-led biotech company specializing in supramolecular chemistry. This marks the primary open innovation investment the wonder giant has made through Shanghai Meicifang Investment Co. Ltd., L’Oréal China’s investment company, with support from Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development, or BOLD, which is the group’s strategic innovation enterprise capital fund. It's also the primary investment from L’Oréal’s Big Bang Tech Innovation Challenge, which the corporate launched 4 years ago in China. Scientist Jiaheng Zhang founded Shinehigh Innovation in China in 2017. “Its breakthrough smart self-assembling technology allows previously inconceivable ingredient mixtures, leading to end-products with greater efficacy and sustainability,” L’Oréal said in a press release released Friday. “The partnership will enable L’Oréal...
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2 Jul

The Biotech Breakthrough

The Biotech Breakthrough
After years of research and development, biotechnology is poised as the longer term of beauty and private care, with experts predicting an industry revolution. And leading the transformation of hair care is K18 Biomimetic Hairscience (K18). The patented K18PEPTIDE™ has been a revolution for haircare – clinically reversing hair damage from bleach, color, chemical services and warmth in only 4 minutes. This damage repair occurs on a molecular level, to work on all hair types, and enables stylists and consumers to push their hair transformations further without sacrificing hair health. The K18PEPTIDE™ got here from over a decade of biotech research. For 10 years, Suveen Sahib, cofounder and chief executive officer of K18, and a team of top bioscientists mapped and tested...
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28 Dec

L’Oréal Takes Minority Stake in French Biotech Company Microphyt

L’Oréal Takes Minority Stake in French Biotech Company Microphyt
PARIS — L’Oréal is expanding its reach into the green sciences by taking a minority stake in Microphyt, a French biotech company, to develop recent cosmetic solutions. The investment was made through Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development, or BOLD, the group’s enterprise capital fund. L’Oréal and Microphyt are starting to work together on progressive lively ingredients to open recent beauty territories, based on Anne Colonna, head of advanced research at L’Oréal. “We're going to put all of the progressive power of Microphyt, including the actives they have already got, with all the ability of L’Oréal to judge each the efficacy and the security, and to formulate,” she said. “We actually need to synergize to go one step further.” One other goal with the partnership...
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