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Novo launches Wegovy pill — $25 insured, $149 cash list
Novo Nordisk officially launched an oral formulation of its GLP‑1 obesity drug Wegovy in the U.S., listing insured patient copays as low as $25 per month and a cash price of $149 for starting...
Appeals court blocks NIH 15% indirect‑cost cap — injunction remains
A U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court injunction preventing the National Institutes of Health from imposing a 15% cap on indirect cost reimbursements to universities and research...
St. Jude maps base‑editor off‑targets; Cas3 delivers large TTR deletions in vivo
Researchers at St. Jude developed CHANGE‑seq‑BE, an unbiased, sensitive method to profile genome‑wide off‑target activity of CRISPR base editors to support safety evaluation in therapeutic...
Illumina launches Connected Multiomics — cloud AI for scaled multiomic analysis
Illumina released Connected Multiomics, a cloud‑based software suite that integrates multiomic data types with AI‑driven analytics and workflow automation to support scalable, connected biological...
Insilico IPO... Servier inks $888M cancer pact
Insilico Medicine completed a large Hong Kong IPO and immediately turned proceeds into a multiyear R&D tie‑up with Servier focused on oncology. The company raised roughly $292–293 million in the...
Pfizer bets on tumor‑selective antigens – $865M Cartography deal
Pfizer and Cartography Biosciences struck a multiyear collaboration giving Pfizer options to license tumor‑selective antigens discovered with Cartography’s Atlas and Summit platforms. Pfizer...
Sanofi doubles down on AI biologics – another big Earendil pact
Sanofi expanded its engagement with AI‑native Earendil Labs, signing a follow‑on agreement worth $160 million in upfront and near‑term payments and a broader collaboration framework that could...
Deep Intelligent Pharma raises $50M: trials go autonomous
Singapore‑based Deep Intelligent Pharma (DIP) closed a $50 million Series D to scale an AI platform that automates clinical trial design and execution. The company says its system decomposes...
Arrowhead advances RNAi obesity programs – Phase 2 now
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals reported interim signals from RNAi candidates in obesity and announced plans to advance at least one program, ARO‑INHBE, into Phase 2 testing after early cohorts showed...
Novo launches Wegovy pill – insurance pricing aims access
Novo Nordisk launched an oral form of semaglutide branded as Wegovy and started U.S. distribution with pricing tiers intended to expand access: as low as $25 per month for insured patients under...
Zenas meets Phase 3 endpoint — market punishes cross‑trial gap
Zenas Biopharma reported positive topline results from its Phase 3 Indigo trial of obexelimab in immunoglobulin G4‑related disease (IgG4‑RD) but investors reacted sharply after comparing effect...
Ikarovec and VectorBuilder eye an office‑based gene therapy route
U.K. biotech Ikarovec partnered with gene‑delivery specialist VectorBuilder to evaluate AAV capsids engineered to enable intravitreal delivery of an ocular gene therapy for intermediate...
CDC cuts routine childhood vaccine recommendations to 11
Federal health officials announced an immediate reduction in the CDC’s routine pediatric vaccine recommendations to 11 diseases, a change implemented under HHS direction and outside the Advisory...
New tools map base‑editor off‑targets and Cas3 yields large TTR deletions
Researchers published two genome‑editing advances: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital reported CHANGE‑seq‑BE, an unbiased method to map base‑editor off‑target activity and support safety...
Insilico’s Hong Kong IPO... Raises ~$292M, then signs Servier oncology pact
Insilico Medicine completed an oversubscribed Hong Kong IPO and immediately converted that momentum into a multiyear oncology R&D collaboration with Servier. The company priced its listing and...
Singapore’s Deep Intelligent Pharma raises $50M — aims to automate clinical trials
Deep Intelligent Pharma closed a $50 million Series D round to scale its AI-driven clinical trial automation platform. The financing was led by CDH Baifu with participation from existing backers...
Sanofi doubles down on AI biologics—new deals worth up to $2.56B and $160M near term
Sanofi expanded its partnerships with AI-enabled discovery firms, announcing a large biotherapeutics collaboration with Earendil that could reach $2.56 billion and a separate near-term commitment...
Zenas’ Phase III win — and a market shock: trial success meets steep share drop
Zenas Biopharma reported that obexelimab met the Phase III primary endpoint in the Indigo trial for IgG4‑related disease, demonstrating a statistically significant 56% reduction in flare risk...
Wegovy pill rollout: Novo Nordisk ships oral semaglutide and sets tiered pricing
Novo Nordisk began shipping an oral formulation of semaglutide marketed as a Wegovy pill in the U.S., with pharmacies filling prescriptions immediately. The company announced a tiered pricing...
Moderna files for mRNA flu shot approval across major markets
Moderna submitted regulatory applications for its mRNA influenza vaccine, mRNA‑1010, to agencies in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia, seeking approval for use in adults aged 50 and older....