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AI disease models and generative systems move from lab to pipelines

October 17, 2025

Sophia Genetics rolled out a Digital Twins module inside its Sophia DDM cloud platform to simulate disease trajectories, treatment responses and survival outcomes using multimodal clinical,...

Manufacturing bet: Lonza gains Swiss GMP line; Merck buys JSR chromatography unit

October 17, 2025

Lonza received Swissmedic approval and a GMP license for a new aseptic drug‑product filling line in Stein (Switzerland), adding high‑containment capabilities for highly potent biologics including...

Broad, Roche break speed barrier: genome to result in under four hours

October 17, 2025

Broad Clinical Labs, in collaboration with Roche Sequencing Solutions and Boston Children’s Hospital, reported an ultra‑rapid whole‑genome sequencing workflow that produced variant calls in...

Kite doubles down on in vivo CAR‑T: $1.64B deal with Pregene

October 17, 2025

Kite Pharma (Gilead) struck a development and licensing agreement with China’s Pregene Biopharma to accelerate next‑generation in vivo CAR‑T therapies, committing up to $1.64 billion and an...

Praxis’ ulixacaltamide wins Phase 3 – NDA on deck

October 17, 2025

Praxis Precision Medicines reported that its oral T‑type calcium channel inhibitor ulixacaltamide met primary and key secondary endpoints in two pivotal Phase 3 trials for essential tremor. The...

Markets reward Praxis: shares triple after Phase 3 wins

October 17, 2025

The marketplace responded immediately to Praxis’ Phase 3 success: shares more than tripled intraday after the company disclosed positive topline results and plans for an NDA submission. Company...

Novo bankrolls Omeros: up to $2.1B for MASP‑3 rare‑disease antibody

October 17, 2025

Novo Nordisk licensed global rights to Omeros’ zaltenibart, a MASP‑3 blocking antibody targeting complement‑mediated rare blood and kidney disorders, in a deal that could reach $2.1 billion plus...

Aicuris to file NDA after Phase 3 win in refractory herpes

October 17, 2025

Aicuris Anti‑Infective Cures reported positive Phase 3 results for pritelivir in healing refractory herpes simplex virus lesions in immunocompromised patients and said it will prepare a U.S. NDA...

Tubulis lands $361M Series C – ADC push accelerates

October 17, 2025

Tubulis secured a $361 million Series C to accelerate clinical development of its antibody‑drug conjugate (ADC) pipeline and expand manufacturing and translational capabilities. The German...

Adcytherix raises €104M Series A to back ADC entry to clinic

October 17, 2025

French antibody developer Adcytherix closed a €105 million (about $122 million) Series A to take its lead ADC into first‑in‑human studies next year. The funding will support IND‑enabling work and...

DeepSomatic delivers cross‑platform somatic caller: Nature Biotechnology

October 17, 2025

Researchers published DeepSomatic, a deep‑learning somatic small‑variant caller designed to work across short‑ and long‑read sequencing technologies, alongside a set of public benchmarking...

CASTLE benchmarks released: long‑read somatic calling improves detection

October 17, 2025

A companion Nature Biotechnology report details methods and public datasets aimed at improving somatic variant calling with long‑read technologies and shows how combining long‑ and short‑read data...

Tempus AI, Whitehawk ink biomarker tie‑up to guide ADC trials

October 17, 2025

Tempus AI entered a multi‑year collaboration with Whitehawk Therapeutics to apply Tempus’ de‑identified multimodal real‑world dataset to Whitehawk’s ADC development programs. The partnership will...

Plasmidsaurus launches ultrafast RNA‑seq service: three‑day turnaround

October 17, 2025

Plasmidsaurus unveiled a new ultrafast RNA‑seq service tailored for Illumina short‑read applications, offering rapid transcriptomics deliverables—crude cell preps to analyzed results in as fast as...

Plasmidsaurus expands RNA‑seq labs: faster transcriptomics for drug R&D

October 17, 2025

Plasmidsaurus said the new RNA‑seq offering complements recent launches—overnight microbiome amplicon sequencing and fast AAV genome services—and noted expansion into multiple global labs...

Lonza clears Swissmedic line for highly‑potent biologics manufacturing

October 17, 2025

Lonza received Swissmedic approval and a GMP license for a new aseptic drug‑product filling line in Stein, Switzerland, optimized for highly potent biologics including ADCs. The line adds liquid...

Osimertinib plus chemo — FLAURA2 shows overall survival gain

October 17, 2025

A global phase 3 FLAURA2 trial reported a statistically significant overall survival benefit when osimertinib was combined with platinum–pemetrexed chemotherapy versus osimertinib alone in...

Ultra‑rapid WGS: Broad and Roche deliver same‑day genome calls

October 17, 2025

Broad Clinical Labs, in collaboration with Roche Sequencing Solutions and Boston Children’s Hospital, demonstrated an ultra‑rapid whole‑genome sequencing (WGS) workflow that produced variant calls...

DeepSomatic and CASTLE — new benchmarks for somatic variant calling

October 17, 2025

Two companion Nature Biotechnology reports introduce DeepSomatic, a deep‑learning somatic small‑variant caller designed to work across short‑ and long‑read sequencing platforms, and a set of...

Illumina’s mapped‑read pilot... GeneDx tests Constellation for tough variants

October 17, 2025

GeneDx piloted Illumina’s Constellation mapped‑read technology on NovaSeq X Plus instruments to detect variants that evade standard short‑read methods. The early access pilot, presented at ASHG,...