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  Business

  Tiny Zymeworks Snags $1.4B+ R&D Deal With Drug Giant Johnson & Johnson

  There’s nothing like a billion-plus dollar deal to make investors happy on a Monday.

  November 13, 2017

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  2 min read

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  Alex Keown
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  Job Trends

  Real Estate Developers Eye Boston’s South End for Life Science Campus

  The new space is located just a few miles from Kendall Square that has become the hub of the Boston biotech industry.

  November 13, 2017

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  3 min read

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  Alex Keown
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  BioForest

  Top 3 Best Biotechs of 2018

  Noting that biotech stocks have been in “hypergrowth” mode over more than six years, George Budwell, writing for The Motley Fool, looks at three biotech stocks that he would recommend to investors.

  November 13, 2017

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  2 min read

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  Mark Terry
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  Biotech Bay

  Top 5 Biosimilars Drug Stocks to Buy Right Now

  During the presidential campaign of 2015-2016, one of the areas that got some of the largest scrutiny was drug pricing, and with good reason.

  November 13, 2017

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  1 min read
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  Business

  Gates Pledges $100M to the Holy Grail of Science--Alzheimer’s

  Gates to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund and another $50 million in a number of start-up ventures working on Alzheimer’s research.

  November 13, 2017

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  1 min read
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  Job Trends

  Pfizer to Hire Up to 400 in Michigan for 2018

  Pfizer is planning to hire 200 new staffers and another 200 replacement workers in Michigan.

  November 13, 2017

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  3 min read

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  Mark Terry
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  Biotech Bay

  Bay Area’s Arcus Biosciences Scores $107M, Initiates Two Clinical Trials

  Now totaling $227M, Arcus Biosciences announced it had closed a $107M Series C financing.

  November 13, 2017

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  2 min read

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  Mark Terry
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  Drug Development

  Argos Surges on Positive Phase III Kidney Cancer Data

  Investors in beleaguered Argos are smiling this morning after the company announced some positive interim data for its Phase III kidney cancer drug, Rocapuldencel-T - a trial that some said should have been scrapped months ago.

  November 13, 2017

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  2 min read

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  Alex Keown
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  Business

  Novo Nordisk Lays Off 185 Employees, Hiring 70 in Commercial Reorg

  After falling short of analysts’ expectations in its latest quarter, Novo Nordisk is restructuring its commercial operations as it looks to fend off challenges to its products.

  November 13, 2017

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  2 min read

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  Alex Keown
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  Drug Development

  Lessons Learned: One-Time Leader Juno Uses Deaths to Create a Better CAR-T Formula

  Neurotoxicity killed JCAR015 right along with 5 patients in the lead pivotal study, derailing Juno Therapeutics.

  November 13, 2017

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