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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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In honor of World Cancer Research Day, Sept. 24, BioSpace spoke with Elevation Oncology, Janssen, Merck and Teclison to learn more about the latest innovations in immuno-oncology.
A new formulation of NeuroSense’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis therapeutic PrimeC could pave the way for an expansion of its ongoing Phase IIb PARADIGM study into the United States.
A cloudy ophthalmic space got a little clearer Wednesday with the two collaborations by Visus Therapeutics and Outlook Therapeutics, now preparing for FDA approval.
Genentech and privately-held Arsenal Biosciences forged a multi-year collaboration to identify critical success circuits in T cell-based therapies for solid tumors.
Pheon Therapeutics launched with $63 million in Series A financing and a vision of ushering in the next generation of antibody-drug conjugates.
TCR2 Therapeutics announced promising Phase I data for gavo-cel in mesothelin-expression that points toward effects in multiple solid tumors, especially ovarian cancer.
The anti-amyloid approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease is seeing new life after Eisai and Biogen announced that lecanemab slowed progression of disease in a Phase III study.
Funding initiatives this week saw money flow into cancer, rare liver diseases, respiratory depression, chemotherapy-related toxicities and a cutting-edge machine learning platform.
FUJIFILM Dyosynth Biotechnologies, Taysha Gene Therapies, Veravas highlight innovation stemming from the Lone Star state. BioSpace takes a deep dive into these and other Texas innovators.
Shares of Exicure, Inc. are falling after the company announced a strategic initiative that casts doubts on its future developmental programs.