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Disc Medicine’s bitopertin—rejected by the FDA in February—significantly reduced levels of a key disease biomarker and significantly increased the time patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria were able to spend in the sun and artificial light.
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After years of quiet maturation, new approach methodologies and emerging clinical success for cell therapies are fueling parallel momentum for induced pluripotent stem cells.
BioSpace is launching an IPO dashboard to help the industry keep tabs on U.S. biotechs that have taken the public plunge in 2026.
While Alnylam’s recent reduced revenue guidance spooked investors, analysts remain broadly bullish on the biotech’s commercial prospects.
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Watching the baseball playoffs this week, I was struck by the parallels between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Eli Lilly. Both franchises spend a lot of money and always appear to come out on top.
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City Therapeutics will join a slew of biotechs that have entered the public markets this year, with a $200 million raise that landed above expectations.
Inconsistent reporting at a Pennsylvania site affected microbiological analyses of components and drug products that analytical testing service provider Eurofins ran for customers.
The sixth cycle of OrbiMed’s Asia Partners fund included one with more than $1 billion earmarked for life science companies based on the Eastern continent.
AstraZeneca will tap AI-focused insitro to find new targets for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis and cardiomyopathies, following the Phase 3 failure of its Ionis-partnered Wainua in transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy.
Following several recent initiatives, the FDA’s newest rare disease framework sets out to standardize the agency’s approach to scientific evidence and bring rare disease therapies to patients faster.
A new biotech co-founded by Paul Stoffels has formed to take on the CAR T cell assets of Galapagos almost a year after the company—now known as Lakefront Biotherapeutics—abandoned them.
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals’ siRNA candidate achieved “compelling” tau reductions in an early study of healthy volunteers, with a magnitude of effect that seems to outperformother blood-brain barrier platforms, according to Stifel.
While Oppenheimer doesn’t see the Phase 3 stumble of VQW-765 as highly detrimental to Vanda Pharmaceuticals, the analyst nevertheless believes the stakes are now higher for the company’s planned Q4 readout for Nereus in GLP-1-induced vomiting.
In this episode of Denatured, presented by Cytiva, Jennifer Smith-Parker speaks to Nicolas Pivet, VP & GM, Manufacturing & Digital Solutions at Cytiva. In this episode, we explore how biopharma’s real bottleneck isn’t too little data—it’s too little confidence in the decisions that drive development, manufacturing and commercialization.
The Gilead Sciences deal, which include $135 million in upfront and near-term payments, marks a critical platform validation for Vir Biotechnology as investors await an upcoming readout in solid tumors.