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In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Jack Crawford, CEO of Demeetra, and Magnus Gustavsson, chief commercial officer at NorthX Biologics. We unpack the evolution of cell line development — CHO cells, targeted integration, transposases and the collaboration models speeding biologics from sequence to GMP.
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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.
Saol Therapeutics is the latest biotech to resubmit for approval of a drug rejected under former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, following REGENXBIO and Replimune.
Even as FDA approvals for biologic therapies fell in the first half of 2026, regulatory experts are optimistic about a turnaround in the rare disease space after the departure of key leaders at the agency. Still, there will continue to be tension between science and politics.
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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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The company’s investigational electric field therapy was unable to elicit significant survival benefits in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.
The British drugmaker filed a lawsuit on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware claiming the Inflation Reduction Act conflicts with the goals of the Orphan Drug Act.
The late-stage results for acoramidis, BridgeBio’s transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy candidate, indicate significant survival, functional and biomarker improvements over placebo.
Following a countersuit by Amgen and Horizon Therapeutics, the Federal Trade Commission has temporarily suspended its challenge to the multi-billion dollar merger between the two companies.
The Swiss pharma is returning the anti-TGFβ antibody NIS793 to Xoma Corporation, from which it bought the asset in 2015 for $37 million upfront.
While an initial analysis showed improvements in progression-free survival and objective response rate, a second analysis saw no improvement in overall survival.
A second trial shows Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy improves heart health. Meanwhile, many other drugs are beginning to face generic competition, including from newly approved biosimilars.
Following a late-stage victory on Monday, Exelixis on Thursday reported another Phase III win for its tyrosine kinase inhibitor Cabometyx—this time in advanced neuroendocrine tumors.
Wegovy’s highest dose significantly improved physical function and quality of life in obese patients with heart failure, according to results published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Amid one of the industry’s steepest patent cliffs, the regulator Thursday approved Sandoz’s Tyruko, the first biosimilar for treating relapsing multiple sclerosis in adults. Sandoz is a division of Novartis.