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In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Jack Crawford, CEO of Demeetra, and Magnus Gustavsson, chief commercial officer at NorthX Biologics. We unpack the evolution of cell line development — CHO cells, targeted integration, transposases and the collaboration models speeding biologics from sequence to GMP.
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Psychedelics are gaining momentum in depression, with one treating physician predicting that the drug class could “wipe out the SSRIs” if safety and durability hold up.
Saol Therapeutics is the latest biotech to resubmit for approval of a drug rejected under former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, following REGENXBIO and Replimune.
Even as FDA approvals for biologic therapies fell in the first half of 2026, regulatory experts are optimistic about a turnaround in the rare disease space after the departure of key leaders at the agency. Still, there will continue to be tension between science and politics.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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The London-based Financial Times reported that 83% of companies listed on stock exchanges over the past two years are now trading well below their initial public offering price.
kENUP had called the mRNA vaccine efforts in Africa “doomed to fail” since the project likely infringes on BioNTech and Moderna patents on the vaccine.
Shares of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals are sliding in morning trading despite the news that the company’s revenues grew by 83% in 2021 compared to the previous year.
Ardelyx has reported in a regulatory filing that the FDA sent an Appeal Denied Letter for its drug tenapanor, a therapeutic intended for chronic kidney disease.
Bayer joined in the $50 million Series A for San Francisco’s Indapta Therapeutics.
As AstraZeneca released its 2021 annual financial report, a BBC documentary suggested that the way scientists and politicians politicized its COVID-19 vaccine may have cost lives.
It’s uncertain if the origins of COVID-19 will ever be determined, but the current top theories split about evenly between a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and a natural evolution from bats to animals to humans at a Wuhan “wet market.”
The EUA request is based on the Phase II study that showed treatment with ensovibep reduced the viral load from the SARS-CoV-2 virus within eight days of use compared to placebo.
Teva Pharmaceuticals reported solid earnings for the full year of 2021, posting $15.9 billion in revenues alongside gains of $4.1 billion from the fourth quarter alone.