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Guardant and Zephyr AI partner to accelerate genomic biomarker discovery
Guardant Health struck a strategic collaboration with Zephyr AI to combine Guardant’s multimodal molecular datasets from its genomic testing platform with Zephyr’s AI and machine learning...
Hemab raises $157M to advance coagulation disorder pipeline
Hemab Therapeutics closed a $157 million financing to advance a portfolio targeting ‘underserved’ coagulation disorders, including a pivotal program for Glanzmann thrombasthenia and an early...
Ena Respiratory nets AU$34M to advance nasal antiviral INNA‑051
Ena Respiratory closed an AU$34 million (US$22.4 million) Series B to advance INNA‑051, a nasal spray candidate for symptomatic viral respiratory infections, into Phase II. Investors include the...
Novartis doubles down on RNA: $12B buyout brings late-stage muscle drugs
Novartis agreed to acquire Avidity Biosciences for roughly $12 billion, taking ownership of three late-stage antibody-oligonucleotide conjugate (AOC) programs targeting neuromuscular diseases. The...
Intellia halts CRISPR phase 3 dosing after severe liver event
Intellia Therapeutics paused enrollment and dosing in two Phase 3 trials of its in vivo CRISPR candidate after a study volunteer was hospitalized with severe liver toxicity. The company said it is...
GSK bets on inhaled siRNA: $85M upfront, broad COPD strategy
GSK struck an exclusive license with Empirico for an inhaled siRNA candidate targeting non‑type 2 inflammatory COPD, paying $85 million upfront and up to hundreds of millions in milestones. The...
Zenas posts strong MS readout – near‑complete lesion suppression in midstage
Zenas Biopharma reported a midstage (MoonStone) trial result showing a ~95% reduction in new Gd‑enhancing brain lesions at Weeks 8–12 with obexelimab versus placebo in relapsing multiple...
BridgeBio’s Phase 3 surge – interim data push FDA filing plans
BridgeBio posted an interim Phase 3 readout for BBP‑418 in LGMD2I/R9 that the company described as a potential 'home run,' prompting plans to meet the FDA to discuss an NDA submission. The interim...
Zag Bio emerges with $80M: thymus‑targeted Treg engineering draws big pharma cash
Zag Bio launched with an $80 million Series A to develop thymus‑targeted bifunctional antibodies designed to induce regulatory T cells (Tregs) for autoimmune disease. The round included strategic...
Cepheid TB resistance assay wins WHO prequalification – enables global procurement
Danaher subsidiary Cepheid’s Xpert MTB/XDR assay received World Health Organization prequalification for genotypic detection of resistance to multiple first‑ and second‑line tuberculosis drugs....
Revvity’s diagnostics lift: newborn screening drives Q3 growth
Revvity reported that its diagnostics business grew in Q3 driven by newborn screening and immunodiagnostics, with diagnostics revenue rising 3% year over year. Company executives cited new...
USP issues GLP‑1 quality resources as counterfeit risk and demand surge
The U.S. Pharmacopeia released reference standards and analytical reference materials to help manufacturers ensure purity and detect impurities in GLP‑1 peptide products amid unprecedented demand...
Hemab raises $157M to tackle underserved coagulation disorders
Hemab Therapeutics closed a $157 million financing to advance a portfolio targeting rare bleeding disorders including Glanzmann thrombasthenia and von Willebrand disease. The round was led by...
Novartis doubles down on RNA: $12B Avidity buy
Novartis agreed to acquire Avidity Biosciences in a roughly $12 billion cash deal that brings three late‑stage antibody‑oligonucleotide conjugate (AOC) programs into its neuroscience portfolio....
Intellia halts nex‑z trials after liver toxicity
Intellia Therapeutics paused enrollment and dosing in two Phase III trials of its in vivo CRISPR candidate (nex‑z) after a study participant was hospitalized with severe liver injury. The company...
BridgeBio’s phase 3 win: FDA meeting looms
BridgeBio reported a positive interim Phase III readout for BBP‑418 in limb‑girdle muscular dystrophy 2I/R9, meeting pre‑specified efficacy thresholds and prompting plans to meet the FDA to...
Zenas posts near‑complete lesion suppression in MS phase 2
Zenas Biopharma announced mid‑stage MoonStone data showing its bifunctional monoclonal antibody obexelimab produced a 95% reduction in new gadolinium‑enhancing brain lesions in relapsing multiple...
Hemab secures $157M to target underserved coagulation disorders
Hemab Therapeutics closed a $157 million financing to advance a portfolio focused on rare and underserved coagulation disorders, including lead programs moving toward pivotal testing. The funds...
MARTi brings real‑time metagenomics to nanopore sequencing
Researchers at the Earlham Institute released MARTi, an open‑source software suite enabling real‑time analysis and visualization of nanopore metagenomic data. MARTi combines a lightweight analysis...
BoltzGen expands AI drug design: From structure to therapeutics
An MIT‑led team unveiled BoltzGen, a supercomputer‑trained AI model that moves beyond high‑accuracy structure prediction to generalizable therapeutic design across modalities — nanobodies,...