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Biotech is increasingly financed, governed and regulated as though it were a mature pharmaceutical industry rather than a discovery system built around scientific uncertainty. Structural changes are needed to sustain the sector’s strategic innovation.
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Nusano will bring a massive new radioisotope facility in Salt Lake City online by the end of the year, establishing a supply of starting materials for the next generation of radiopharmaceuticals.
Last month, Revolution Medicines’ RAS inhibitor doubled survival in a Phase 3 pancreatic cancer trial. On the biotech’s heels are Immuneering, Actuate Therapeutics, Erasca and more, looking to improve on that result with increased tolerability—and more time for patients.
The recent approval of Regeneron’s Otarmeni underscores the maturation of gene therapies across a range of diseases. Here, BioSpace reviews genetic medicines in development for the central nervous system, retinal, cardiac and neuromuscular diseases.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is spinning its wheels, unable to establish steady leadership at three major divisions—the CDC and the FDA’s two primary review units.
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Most money moves happened in Europe this week, including a government-backed award for Parkinson’s disease research and seed funding for an RNA platform.
Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology is moving on from its current Fremont, California manufacturing facility, inking a lease deal to develop a manufacturing plant in Bothell, Washington.
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his contribution to life sciences and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Transition Bio has a four-component platform called Condensomics which provides a technological method to understand the properties of condensates.
Atreca is reducing its staff count by over 25%, covering current employees and open roles, and revising its operating plan to reflect these cost-cutting measures.
Biopharma and life sciences organizations from across the globe provide updates on their pipelines and businesses.
A largely untested and unproven treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, called transcranial pulse stimulation (TPS), is becoming popular around the world, although experts are skeptical.
Eligo Bioscience has thought of a way to solve the dysbiosis between our bodies and our microbiomes – gene editing. BioSpace spoke with Eligo Co-founder and CEOXavier Duportet, Ph.D.
Shares of TG Therapeutics are falling fast in Wednesday trading after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was pulling approval of the cancer drug Ukoniq (umbralisib).
Several new biotech and biopharma companies are sharing their strengths to develop new treatments for high-need diseases diabetes, Alzheimer’s and cancer.