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Hypersensitivity reactions in a mouse model prompted the agency to suspend Denali’s planned Phase I development for DNL952 for Pompe disease.
Praxis has also announced a “successful” pre-NDA meeting with the FDA for its essential tremor drug candidate ulixacaltamide, for which an approval application is slated for early 2026.
The ACIP decided 6–3 to postpone its vote on hepatitis B vaccination changes after the language of the questions was repeatedly changed in the days leading up to the meeting.
Days after Johnson & Johnson’s posdinemab failed to slow clinical decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Eisai Chief Clinical Officer Lynn Kramer expressed unwavering conviction in his company’s own anti-tau asset, while others suggest the Alzheimer’s field is heading in a completely different direction.
Investor optimism has waned as final minutes from uniQure’s pre-BLA meeting with the FDA convey that data from the company’s Phase I/II studies of AMT-130 are “unlikely” to provide the primary evidence to support a biologics license application.
Writing in separate editorials in two leading medical journals, former chiefs of federal scientific agencies issued warnings about the changes being proposed to vaccine frameworks by current officials.
The partnership will focus on Crescent’s PD-1/VEGF inhibitor CR-001 and Kelun-Biotech’s SKB105, both of which the companies plan to push into Phase I/II development for solid tumors early next year.
The field of women’s health suffers from a lack of specific and standardized tools optimized for the study of the human vaginal microbiome. Learn about the OMNIgene™•VAGINAL device for the self-collection and stabilization of vaginal samples, and OMNIgene™•XTRACT ULTRA extraction kits for the recovery of vaginal microbial DNA and RNA to support vaginal microbiome discovery.
The OMNIgene™•XTRACT ULTRA kit enables the optimal recovery of large quantities of high-quality DNA and RNA from a wide range of sample types including vaginal samples collected with the OMNIgene™•VAGINAL device. The OMNIgene™•XTRACT ULTRA kit is the first solution validated to provide significantly higher DNA and RNA yields from vaginal samples to better support multi-omic analysis of microbial communities.
Companies who run their early-stage clinical development outside the U.S. would “experience higher fees” according to an FDA proposal made during the negotiation process for the eighth cycle of the user fee program.
Last week, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad claimed in an internal memo—without providing evidence—that COVID-19 vaccines were responsible for the deaths of 10 children between 2021 and 2024.
Høeg is the fifth person to lead the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research this year.