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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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Zealand Pharma shared positive top-line results for its second Phase III clinical trial of its congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) drug, dasiglucagon, in pediatric patients.
Janssen’s Tremfya, an IL-23 inhibitor, is showing an ability to separate itself from AbbVie’s Skyrizi in preventing the activation of cells that drive inflammation.
On Thursday, Mersana announced that the FDA granted an orphan drug designation to one of its lead assets, XMT-2056, which is intended to treat gastric cancer.
On Wednesday evening, a man in Massachusetts became the first person reported to have a case of monkeypox in the U.S. The man contracted monkeypox after traveling to Canada.
As the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy’s 25th Annual Meeting wraps up, a host of life science companies touted their research and products. BioSpace looks at some of them.
Pfizer, Sarepta Therapeutics, Genethon and Solid Biosciences are working on gene therapies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Now, the four companies have teamed up.
U.K. researchers found that the first dose of any vaccine was linked with an initial 12.8% decrease in the odds of Long COVID.
Germany-based Evotec AG forged its third partnership in May, a deal with Spain’s Almirall S.A. to develop new therapeutics for severe diseases of the skin.
Enanta Pharmaceuticals’ attempt to find an effective treatment for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) met a roadblock after its candidate failed to meet the primary endpoint in Phase II.
Following reports that Pfizer has declined study requests for Paxlovid, the company and NIH are said to be in conversation about potential studies assessing a longer treatment period of the antiviral.