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Thermo Fisher to buy Clario for $8.8B: clinical trials data and digital push accelerates
Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed to acquire Clario for $8.8 billion to expand its clinical‑trial data, patient‑centric services, and digital capabilities within its Laboratory Products and...
Qiagen buys Parse Biosciences to jump into single‑cell genomics
Qiagen announced it will acquire Parse Biosciences for $225 million upfront plus up to $55 million in milestones, marking a strategic move into scalable single‑cell genomics. Parse’s...
Colossal acquires Viagen Pets & Equine — cloning and biobanks join de‑extinction push
Colossal Biosciences said it has acquired Viagen Pets & Equine, a cloning and reproductive services company that maintains a biobank spanning more than 40 species, including endangered animals....
Doudna‑backed Azalea launches with $82M to pursue single‑dose in‑vivo CAR‑T
Azalea Therapeutics, a spinoff from Jennifer Doudna’s lab, launched with $82 million to develop single‑dose, in‑vivo CAR‑T approaches that convert patients’ immune cells directly inside the body....
Nautilus places single‑molecule protein platform at Buck — first external install lifts stock
Nautilus Biotechnology installed its single‑molecule protein analysis system at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging as the first external customer deployment, enabling targeted studies of tau...
Arena BioWorks shutters: billionaire‑backed research institute pulls plug amid funding squeeze
Arena BioWorks, a Boston research institute launched in 2024 with $500 million from a group of billionaire backers, confirmed an abrupt shutdown after investors cited deteriorating biotech macro...
Roche pays $55M for Manifold Bio brain‑shuttle pact — $2B program to cross blood‑brain barrier
Roche signed a strategic collaboration and licensing agreement with Manifold Bio to develop next‑generation brain shuttles designed to ferry therapeutic payloads across the blood‑brain barrier....
FDA leadership crisis: CDER chief exits after misconduct probe
George Tidmarsh resigned as director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research after being placed on administrative leave amid a Department of Health and Human Services probe into...
FDA reverses course on uniQure Huntington's data — submission timeline in doubt
UniQure said the FDA signaled it no longer regards data from the company’s Phase I/II AMT-130 program versus an external control as sufficient to support a Biologics License Application, throwing...
Metsera M&A melee: Novo’s $10B pitch meets Pfizer lawsuits
Metsera’s board declared Novo Nordisk’s latest proposal a superior proposal after Novo raised its bid to as much as $10 billion, setting off swift legal retaliation from Pfizer. Pfizer filed...
Sarepta confirmatory flop: Duchenne exon‑skipping trial fails primary endpoint
Sarepta Therapeutics announced its ESSENCE Phase III confirmatory trial for two exon‑skipping antisense oligonucleotides failed to meet the study’s primary endpoint, a blow to drugs marketed under...
Off‑the‑shelf CAR‑T shows promise – Caribou posts encouraging lymphoma results
Caribou Biosciences reported data suggesting its off‑the‑shelf CAR‑T candidate delivers deep, durable remissions in advanced B‑cell lymphoma, with response rates approaching benchmarks set by...
Nautilus lands at Buck Institute: single‑molecule proteomics reaches neurodegeneration labs
Nautilus Biotechnology installed its single‑molecule protein analysis platform at the Buck Institute to study tau proteoforms in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Buck is the first...
Pharmacogenomics gap widens as OneOme shutters CLIA lab
OneOme, the Mayo Clinic spinoff known for the RightMed pharmacogenomics test, announced a sudden closure of operations citing financial challenges. The Minneapolis‑based company will stop...
Thermo Fisher shells out $8.8B for Clario to bolster clinical‑trial tech stack
Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed to acquire clinical trial data firm Clario for $8.8 billion, a deal that will expand Thermo Fisher’s digital offerings across trial operations and data management....
Roche bets on Manifold brain‑shuttle tech with multi‑hundred‑million pact
Roche signed a strategic collaboration and license deal with Manifold Bio to develop next‑generation brain shuttles, paying an upfront $55 million and structuring a partnership that could exceed...
Private capital backs Merck oncology push: Blackstone buys into ADC royalties
Blackstone Life Sciences agreed to purchase a stake in Merck’s Trop‑2 antibody‑drug conjugate program, paying roughly $700 million to underwrite development and share future royalty streams....
Metsera M&A melee: Novo pushes $10B bid, Pfizer strikes back
Novo Nordisk increased its takeover proposal for obesity biotech Metsera, lifting its offer to as much as $10 billion and reshaping the competitive auction for a leading obesity-platform company....
FDA turbulence: CDER boss resigns amid probe
George Tidmarsh, the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), resigned following reports of administrative leave and a Health and Human Services probe into his...
UniQure setback: FDA questions AMT‑130 data — filing timeline unclear
UniQure disclosed that the FDA now signals it may no longer accept AMT‑130’s Phase I/II data — based on comparisons to an external control — as sufficient evidence to support a Biologics License...