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Even though the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be under control, it’s clear that it’s not over, with the rise of more subvariants. Read on for more details.
Many healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotech companies continue to place their bets on China, bringing fresh rounds of investments to and forging new partnerships with local firms.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion rights activists are calling for the FDA to consider making abortion medication Mifeprex an over-the-counter option for patients.
The transaction, expected to close in the third quarter of this year, includes TeneoTwo’s proposed drug for relapsed and refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma TNB-486.
Seagen announced positive data from its Phase II trial in colorectal cancer, and the FDA provided positive feedback supporting a Phase IIIb trial for ANeuroTech’s MDD drug.
The FDA lifted its clinical hold on Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Phase I/II clinical trial of VX-880, a pancreatic islet cell replacement therapy for people with Type I Diabetes (TID).
BioSpace connected with Theodore Laetsch, M.D., lead investigator of the pediatric larotrectinib trial (SCOUT), to gain more insight into the drug, the trial and how patients’ lives are being affected.
Research scientists have found that a colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor inhibitor may also be a potential treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
During the past two years, life sciences companies have made a commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - but have they taken internal actions?
Quris has developed an alternative to testing on animal models, and each one is smaller than the head of a pin. It holds the potential to increase the currently terrible odds in drug development.
Otsuka and Lunbeck report positive Phase III results in agitation in Alzheimer’s, Acer’s vEDS program hits Phase III and BridgeBio’s primary hyperoxaluria type 1 program progresses.
Otsuka Pharmaceutical terminated a deal with Akebia Therapeutics, which ends the U.S. and ex-U.S. vadadustat Collaboration and License Agreements.
PRESS RELEASES
Shareholders Must Recast Their Votes to be Counted
Integration into McKesson’s Medical-Surgical Solutions marketplace serving a nationwide customer base
Phase I results provide platform-level validation supporting AdJane’s broader development programs in pandemic preparedness, respiratory infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance
International experts from leading universities, global biopharmaceutical companies, and investment organizations will convene in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 14–16, 2026, for the fourth edition of RGMBS.
Leinfelden, Germany. Recent infectious disease events—from hantavirus outbreaks and meningitis cases to recurring disease outbreaks in livestock farming—highlight the need for flexibly scalable vaccine manufacturing processes. To address this challenge, Stuttgart-based technology company KyooBe Tech has developed a platform designed to accelerate vaccine production. This technology is now also available to external users for studies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI).
AmesNet’s Task-Conditioned Learning architecture outperforms FDA, MIT, Tencent, and the University of Sydney models in both sensitivity and balanced accuracy on out-of-domain chemical data on a public dataset; AmesNet is built on top of ChemPrint, the core and proprietary deep-learning engine of the GALILEO platform that powers the company’s drug pipeline.