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Biotech

  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Wall street titans boost ambitious biotech fund

    Catalio Capital has survived choppy years in the sector and returned more than $300mn to its limited partners

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  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
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    BioNTech strikes $950mn deal for Chinese drugmaker Biotheus

    Acquisition is latest example of western drugmakers turning to China to tap innovation

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  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
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    Once-hyped genetic start-up issues latest guidance after reporting further quarterly revenue declines

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  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
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    UK health agencies join with Oxford Nanopore to speed up pathogen screening

    Initiative is part of growing international efforts to give early warning of pandemic threats

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  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
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  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
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    Founder Anne Wojcicki races to rescue 23andMe

    Once-hyped genetic testing company hit by data breach, plunging share price and board resignations

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  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
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    Demis Hassabis’s drug discovery start-up accelerates spending to ‘solve’ diseases

    Losses widen at Isomorphic Labs, as new Nobel Prize winner pushes forward with effort to use AI in healthcare

    Demis Hassabis at Google DeepMind’s headquarters in London in May 2024
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Drugs research
    Regeneron head says weight-loss drugs could cause ‘more harm than good’

    US biotech researches treatments to reduce muscle loss from blockbuster diet medicines

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  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Roche Holding AG
    Roche plans to launch drugs and slash development costs

    Swiss pharma group is a high spender on R&D but has had misses in Alzheimer’s and cancer

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  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Corporate governance
    Masimo founder seeks $400mn payout after board ousting

    Joe Kiani asserts in a California lawsuit that he is entitled to severance under provisions typically tied to a company sale

    Joe Kiani speaking in front of a Masimo logo
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Illumina Inc
    EU’s top court sides with Illumina over probe into $8bn Grail acquisition

    European Court of Justice says European Commission had no right to investigate tie-up

    A sign at the entrance to Illumina’s global headquarters in San Diego, US
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    The cost of cracking cancer
    The Covid-era tech that could reinvent cancer care

    Pandemic winners BioNTech and Moderna face hurdles as they seek to bring their groundbreaking technology to oncology

  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    US drug regulators reject ecstasy as mental health treatment

    Decision a setback for Lykos Therapeutics and psychedelic treatment aimed at 13mn Americans with PTSD

    The Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Maryland
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Investments
    Google co-founder backs biotech studying psychedelic African shrub

    Sergey Brin’s non-profit funds research into using hallucinogen for mental health treatment

    Sergey Brin
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Biotech investor behind Moderna raises $3.6bn for new ventures

    Incubator Flagship Pioneering plans to finance and launch array of companies using AI for pharmaceutical development

    A person receives a booster shoot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    Swiss buyout firm Partners Group lands deal for stake in €900mn biotech firm

    Sale of most of FairJourney Biologics means London-based owner GHO Capital realises close to 10-fold return

    A lab at FairJourney Biologics
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Genomics
    Gene editing breakthrough promises to boost fight against disease

    Discovery could allow more precise and efficient targeting of DNA modifications

  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    US biotech Alnylam hails positive trial results for heart disease drug

    Vutrisiran injection cut risk of death and adverse cardiovascular events by at least 28%, company says

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    US regulators give go-ahead for muscle wasting treatment costing $3mn

    Shares of biotech Sarepta soar 40% after approval for most expensive treatment in the world

    The Sarepta logo
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    US biotech Illumina faces potential $7bn loss from forced Grail sale

    Shares in cancer-test developer trading in low volumes ahead of spin-off demanded by antitrust regulators

    A researcher holds a flow cell used for an Illumina gene-sequencing system
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Proposed EU ban on gene-edited crop patents prompts dispute

    Critics of plan include green activists, farmers, biotech start-ups and multinationals

    A vibrant illustration of several potted plants with twisted, DNA-like stems and abstract, spiral flowers in shades of red and white. The pots and flowers are set against a bright blue background
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    IPOs
    Biotechs line up for IPOs in bullish sign for US listings market

    Two developers of drugs for inflammatory diseases are latest to disregard poor performance of newly listed companies

    scientist in microbiology laboratory working with E coli culture
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Panel advising US regulator rejects psychedelic MDMA as treatment for PTSD

    Non-binding vote on psychedelic drug will carry weight with FDA in blow to pharmaceutical developers

    Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) commonly refered to as ecstasy
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Moderna
    Moderna wins second approval with vaccine targeting RSV infection

    US decision hands biotech group its first regulatory blessing since its blockbuster Covid-19 jab

    Moderna ad showing test tubes
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Merck & Co Inc
    Merck signs $3bn deal for Kate Bingham-backed eye disease biotech

    US group hopes EyeBio will refill its pipeline with treatments targeting causes of blindness

    A montage of Kate Bingham and the logos of Merck and EyeBio
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