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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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Synlogic, Senti Biosciences and Novome are pioneering the field of synthetic biotics, which is so new there are only a handful of scientific articles using either that term or ‘engineered living therapeutics.
Scandion Oncology, Edesa, Clovis, Lexicon and Cytokinetics share a string of positive news from their clinical trials on heart failure, cancer, COVID-19 and ARDS.
Incyte Corporation will acquire privately-held Villaris and AmplifyBio will acquire PACT Pharma, while Estrella will gain a spot on the Nasdaq Exchange.
Clene’s gold nanocrystal asset CNM-Au8 failed to hit the primary endpoint in the HEALEY ALS trial, but strong survival signals at six months warrant additional exploration in treating ALS.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals’ Ocaliva failed to treat patients with compensated cirrhosis due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis better than a placebo in a Phase III trial, the company announced Friday.
The third quarter of 2022 saw continued job cuts, a shift in focus away from COVID-19, an unexpected boost in the Alzheimer’s research space and increased scrutiny of accelerated approvals.
Gene therapies developed by Janssen, Atsena, REGENXBIO and AbbVie showed promise against eye diseases this weekend at the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2022 meeting.
Myovant Sciences formed a special committee of independent directors to assess Sumitovant Biopharma’s offer after Sumitovant announced plans to acquire the company.
AstraZeneca is acquiring LogicBio Therapeutics in a deal worth $68 million. The deal bolsters AstraZeneca’s efforts to braoden its portfolio in genomics and rare diseases.
The FDA’s approval of Amylyx’s Relyvrio has ignited the growing momentum in the ALS space. BioSpace spoke with Amylyx co-CEOs Justin Klee and Josh Cohen and leading ALS researcher Dr. Merit Cudkowicz.