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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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Research is emerging showing a causal link between COVID-19 and diabetes. Dr. Brian Fertig, M.D., founder and president of the Diabetes & Osteoporosis Center in New Jersey, spoke with BioSpace.
Four biotech companies are holding Research-and-Development Day events to present and discuss their pipelines. Here’s a look.
The new R&D facility is a product of its new licensing deal with BridgeBio Pharma and will operate under Helsinn Therapeutics.
Shares of Enochian Biosciences plunged more than 36% after the Justice Department announced company cofounder Serhat Gumrukçu was arrested in a sordid 2018 murder-for-hire scheme.
A recent study published in Nature Medicine found that people who were vaccinated had a slightly decreased risk of getting Long COVID six months after their initial diagnosis.
Flagship Pioneering introduced ProFound Therapeutics, a new company that leverages previously undiscovered human proteins to develop treatments for many diseases.
Invectys is one of only a few companies investigating HLA-G, a natural immune checkpoint inhibitor, for solid tumors.
At the start of Takeda’s fiscal year on April 1, Ramona Sequeira and Julie Kim stepped into new positions on the company’s executive leadership team and became role models for women.
When the two new sites are up and running, Eli Lilly predicted the project will create up to 500 new jobs - with the expectation of four indirect jobs for each full-time position, based on industry data.
Germany’s CureVac is partnering with Belgium’s myNEO to identify specific cancer antigens in order to develop novel mRNA immunotherapies for cancer vaccines.