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Fujifilm opens UK mega-CDMO: 19,000 L single-use capacity comes online

February 16, 2026

Fujifilm Biotechnologies inaugurated its expanded Teesside campus in the UK, launching what the company calls the largest single-use CDMO facility in Britain after a roughly £400 million ($545...

AI hunts antibiotics: peptides mined from ancient genomes and venoms

February 16, 2026

César de la Fuente’s team at the University of Pennsylvania is training machine-learning models to search genomes for novel antimicrobial peptides, uncovering candidates in archaea, animal venoms,...

Alzheimer’s cell-type gene map: SIGNET reveals causal regulatory hubs

February 16, 2026

A University of California, Irvine-led team developed SIGNET, a machine-learning framework that infers cell-type-specific gene regulatory networks for Alzheimer’s disease and produced what the...

High-throughput molecular glues uncover leukemia degrader

February 16, 2026

Researchers reported a systematic ligand-diversification screen that couples rapid chemistry with cell-based functional assays to discover molecular glues that induce targeted protein degradation....

Pan-inflammasome blocker surfaces for hidradenitis suppurativa

February 16, 2026

Paratus Sciences presented preclinical data for PS-1001, a first-in-class pan-inflammasome inhibitor designed to block release of IL-1β and IL-18, cytokines implicated in autoinflammatory skin...

Engineered cell therapies for autoimmunity: clinical landscape tightens

February 16, 2026

Nature Biotechnology published a review summarizing recent clinical progress of engineered cellular immunotherapies in autoimmune diseases, highlighting emerging trial data and translational...

Ex‑FDA oncology chief says he was pressured to back trial cuts

February 16, 2026

Richard Pazdur, the long‑time FDA oncology veteran who stepped down last year, told the Wall Street Journal he was presented with a ready-made quote and asked to "just agree to it" amid agency...

CBER director faces complaints as Moderna flu review stalls

February 16, 2026

Vinay Prasad, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is the subject of internal complaints alleging misconduct while also overruling staff to return a refusal‑to‑file...

FDA rejects Disc’s rare‑disease drug…fast‑track status didn’t help

February 16, 2026

The FDA issued a complete response letter to Disc Medicine, rejecting bitopertin for erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) and questioning the use of percent change in whole‑blood metal‑free PPIX as...

Fujifilm opens UK single‑use CDMO — £400m campus expansion

February 16, 2026

Fujifilm Biotechnologies inaugurated its expanded Teesside campus in the UK after a roughly £400 million investment, opening what it calls the country's largest single‑use biopharma CDMO facility....

China clears Gensci‑136 trials — dual APRIL/BAFF antagonist enters clinic

February 16, 2026

Changchun Genescience Pharmaceutical announced NMPA clearance to initiate clinical trials of Gensci‑136, a dual APRIL/BAFF antagonist for immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN). The NMPA clearance...

Researchers map cell‑type gene regulatory networks for Alzheimer’s

February 16, 2026

A University of California, Irvine team published what they describe as the first cell‑type‑specific gene regulatory network (GRN) map for Alzheimer’s disease, using a machine‑learning framework...

High‑throughput chemistry unearths a molecular glue that degrades leukemia driver

February 16, 2026

A team led by Georg Winter developed a systematic ligand diversification strategy that generated thousands of chemical variants and screened them in living cells to find molecular glues that...

Nature Biotechnology review: engineered cell therapies make clinical headway in autoimmunity

February 16, 2026

Nature Biotechnology published a review summarizing the latest clinical advances in engineered cellular immunotherapies for autoimmune diseases. Payne and colleagues synthesize emerging trial data...

FDA accepts CSPC’s IND for SYH‑2082 — dual GLP‑1/GIP weight program enters US studies

February 16, 2026

CSPC Pharmaceutical Group disclosed that the FDA cleared an investigational new drug (IND) application for SYH‑2082, a long‑acting GLP‑1/GIP receptor dual‑biased agonist peptide for weight...

AI‑predicted insulin resistance tied to 12 cancers in UK Biobank analysis

February 16, 2026

Researchers from the University of Tokyo developed an AI tool (AI‑IR) that predicts insulin resistance from nine routine clinical measures and applied it to 500,000 UK Biobank participants,...

AI tool links insulin resistance to 12 cancers: population-scale finding

February 16, 2026

Researchers at the University of Tokyo applied a machine‑learning predictor for insulin resistance (AI‑IR) to 500,000 UK Biobank participants and found insulin resistance is a statistically...

Cell‑type gene map for Alzheimer’s reveals causal hub genes – new analysis method

February 16, 2026

A team at the University of California, Irvine developed SIGNET, a machine‑learning framework that infers cell‑type–specific gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and applied it to Alzheimer’s disease...

High‑throughput chemistry uncovers molecular glue that degrades leukemia driver

February 16, 2026

Researchers led by Georg Winter and collaborators used a systematic ligand‑diversification strategy combined with live‑cell functional screening to identify new molecular glues that induce...

Fujifilm opens UK single‑use CDMO campus: 19,000 L capacity, £400m investment

February 16, 2026

Fujifilm Biotechnologies inaugurated an expanded Teesside site in the UK, unveiling what the company calls the largest single‑use biopharmaceutical CDMO facility in the country. Fujifilm Corp....