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CSL and VarmX Announce $117M Deal to Advance Phase 3 Blood Clotting Drug
CSL has invested $117 million upfront in Dutch biotech VarmX, obtaining an option to acquire its Phase 3-ready drug candidate poised to reverse anticoagulant effects, such as those from Eliquis,...
South Korea Moves to Boost Biosimilar Approvals with Higher Fees and Faster Reviews
South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced plans to raise application fees for biosimilar drug approvals significantly while expediting review timelines beginning next year. This...
Bionano Genomics Prices $10M Public Offering to Fund Operating Activities
Bionano Genomics has priced a public offering of 5 million shares at $2.00 each, raising approximately $10 million before expenses, with warrants potentially bringing an additional $20 million if...
Enhanced Genomics Expands Series A to $19M to Broaden Therapeutic Pipeline
Enhanced Genomics, a UK-based drug discovery firm utilizing a 3D multiomics platform called GenLink, raised an extended Series A funding round totaling $19 million. The capital will support...
Flexible Single-Cell Transcriptomics Platform Enables Million-Cell Profiling
Parse Biosciences launched the Evercode WT Penta and Penta 384 platforms, enabling whole transcriptome single-cell RNA sequencing at unprecedented scales—up to five million cells and 384 samples...
Biotech Industry Turmoil Leads to Boston Startup Closures and Job Cuts
Amid a challenging funding environment post-pandemic, multiple Boston-area biotech startups have shuttered or downsized, including NextRNA Therapeutics. Despite promising science and prior...
Novartis Expands Molecular Glue Deal With Monte Rosa for Immune Diseases
Novartis has cemented a second collaboration with Monte Rosa Therapeutics, making a $120 million upfront payment for exclusive rights to an undisclosed protein degrader target and options on two...
aTyr Pharma’s Phase 3 Failure in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis and Its Market Impact
aTyr Pharma announced that its lead candidate, efzofitimod, failed to meet the primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial for pulmonary sarcoidosis, showing no statistically significant steroid dose...
Bionano Genomics Conducts $10M Public Stock Offering
Bionano Genomics has priced a public offering of 5 million common stock shares at $2.00 each, aiming to raise $10 million before expenses, with concurrent offerings of up to 5 million Series E and...
Enhanced Genomics Raises $19M Series A To Expand Drug Discovery Pipeline
Enhanced Genomics, a Cambridge, UK-based drug discovery startup spun out from the Babraham Institute, has closed additional funding to increase its Series A round to $19 million. The firm is...
US Expands Export Control Entity List to Include Three Chinese Biotech Firms
The US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security added 32 new entities to its Entity List, notably including three Chinese biotechnology companies: Beijing Tianyi Huiyuan...
Deep Learning Model Advances Lung Nodule Cancer Risk Assessment
A novel artificial intelligence-based deep learning algorithm has demonstrated superior accuracy in stratifying malignancy risk of lung nodules, according to recent findings published in...
Microglial Diversity and Clonal Expansion Characterized After Ischemic Stroke
Researchers using multicolor fate mapping techniques in mouse models have elucidated the intricate polyclonal proliferation and heterogeneity of microglia following ischemic stroke. The study...
Stem Cell Transplantation Promotes Brain Regeneration After Stroke in Mice
A recent study demonstrated that stem cell transplantation enhances brain cell regeneration and improves functional recovery following ischemic stroke in mouse models. The findings underscore the...
STAT+: Areteia Therapeutics’ Phase 3 Asthma Drug Dexpramipexole Shows Lung Function Improvement
Privately held Areteia Therapeutics announced that dexpramipexole, an oral twice-daily drug candidate, met its primary endpoint by improving lung function in a placebo-controlled Phase 3 study...
Lila Sciences Raises $235 Million Series A to Advance AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Flagship Pioneering-backed startup Lila Sciences secured $235 million in Series A funding to develop 'scientific superintelligence' by integrating artificial intelligence into laboratory research...
Novartis Secures $120 Million Upfront in Second Monte Rosa Molecular Glue Deal
Novartis has expanded its partnership with Monte Rosa Therapeutics by acquiring exclusive rights to a new molecular glue degrader candidate for immune diseases, along with options for two...
ATyr Pharma’s Efzofitimod Fails Phase 3 Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Trial, Shares Drop Over 80%
Biotech company ATyr Pharma announced that its lead drug candidate, efzofitimod, did not meet the primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial for pulmonary sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease. The...
Novo Nordisk Announces 9,000 Job Cuts Amidst Intensifying Glp-1 Competition
Novo Nordisk disclosed plans to reduce its global workforce by 11.5%, equating to approximately 9,000 layoffs, as part of a company restructuring aimed at enhancing commercial execution in...
AI Toolkit Integrates Multi-Omics Data to Advance Precision Oncology
Researchers at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology have developed Flexynesis, a deep learning framework designed to integrate diverse multi-omics datasets, including genomic,...