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Known as the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, it spent eight years replicating experiments from high-impact cancer biology papers published between 2010 and 2012.
Neurocrine Biosciences and Acadia Pharmaceuticals posted positive top-line results from their respective Phase III trials on major neurological diseases.
Researchers are working to develop new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and improve the already existing ones. Find out more here.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company has developed an artificial intelligence platform designed to optimize pharmaceutical formulation processes.
The news comes just three weeks after Merck paused its Phase II IMAGINE-DR trial, which was studying a combination of islatravir with MK-8507.
Despite having 37 new mutations in the viral spike protein, there does not appear to be any deaths associated with Omicron, although it’s spreading rapidly in South Africa.
Richard Lerner, who played a significant role in shaping both Scripps Research and the San Diego life sciences ecosystem and developing AbbVie’s blockbuster drug Humira, died Dec. 2.
Recursion entered into a billion-dollar “transformational collaboration” with Roche to identify and develop up to 40 new medications for neuroscience and oncology.
Biopharmaceutical firm Alvotech Holdings announced merger plans with Oaktree Acquisition Corp. in a deal that will create a combined entity worth around $2.25 billion.
Odyssey Therapeutics completed an oversubscribed $218 million Series A round. The funds will be used to advance multiple programs from its pipeline and its discovery platform.
Ionis will manufacture and supply the drug for ongoing trials and process qualifications, while AstraZeneca will handle the commercial supply of eplontersen.
vTv Therapeutics said that the funds it saves through this process will allow it to focus on the Phase III development of TP399 and the company’s future growth.
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