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The failure of Roche’s Ionis-partnered tominersen in Huntington’s disease may indicate that Wave Life Sciences’ allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide candidate WVE-003 is on the right track, according to analysts at Rodman & Renshaw.
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The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are pushing for the withdrawal of the rare disease treatment that accounted for just 1% of Amgen’s 2025 revenue. Nevertheless, Amgen continues to defend the medicine, which was acquired in the $3.7 billion buyout of ChemoCentryx.
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.
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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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An announcement lit up the global grapevine today as Clene Nanomedicine released the results from Phase II of their RESCUE-ALS clinical trial.
In November 2019, Emory realized this experimental drug could have significant potential in respiratory viruses such as COVID-19.
Shoreline Biosciences secured $140 million in financing to accelerate the growth of its induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)-based immunotherapies and support the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities.
Monday was a big day for LianBio, as the Shanghai-based company launched on the Nasdaq with an impressive $325 million initial public offering (IPO).
The drug makers have until February 28, 2022 to review their findings and analytical processes for the drug they are developing to treat relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee meets today to discuss authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years.
The partnership will leverage Metagenomi’s novel gene editing technology and Moderna’s mRNA platform, in addition to its lipid nanoparticle delivery technologies.
Novartis has forged a collaboration with U.K.-startup Dunad Therapeutics to develop next-generation targeted protein-degradation therapies in a deal valued at up to $1.3 billion.
This novel diagnostic technology uses augmented reality and a smartphone or tablet to administer cognitive and functional tests.
Centessa showed positive early results from its Phase I Part B study on a potential drug that could direct mutation activity in patients with a particular gene that can cause liver and lung diseases.