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Biotech

  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    InterviewBristol-Myers Squibb Co
    Bristol Myers Squibb drafts contingency plans for US restrictions on Chinese pharma

    Biosecure Act would prohibit American companies receiving federal grant money from working with some Chinese groups

    A picture of a Bristol Myers Squibb sign outside a facility in Cambridge, US
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    UK biotech signs $1bn deal to develop liver disease drugs

    Ochre Bio partnering with Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim on treatments that will harness the organ’s capacity to regenerate

    The corporate headquarters of pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Drugmakers race to find alternative suppliers as US cracks down on Chinese biotech

    WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics under threat from proposed national security legislation

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  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    John Thornhill
    Can 23andMe reinvent itself as a drug discovery company?

    It aims to exploit its extraordinary cache of genetic data but changing corporate DNA is hard

    The contents of a 23andMe Ancestry + Traits Service DNA kit laid out
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Weight loss biotech plans IPO as demand builds for anti-obesity treatments

    Aardvark Therapeutics’ drug has been shown in trials to suppress cravings in patients with rare genetic form of obesity

    A scientist uses a culture flask and pipette in the cell therapy labs at the Novo Nordisk A/S research facilities in Malov, Denmark
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Novo Nordisk AS
    Novo Nordisk in €1bn deal for RNA-based heart disease therapies

    Danish group seeks to branch out from diabetes and weight loss drugs with Cardior acquisition

    A scientist uses a culture flask and pipette in the cell therapy labs at the Novo Nordisk
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
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    Weight-loss drugs will not be the only blockbusters against this silent killer Premium content

    Madrigal is the first to win approval for a treatment for a liver disease that affects one in 20

    A bottle of Rezdiffra tablets
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    EU wrong to block Illumina’s $8bn takeover of Grail, says court adviser

    Advocate general of bloc’s top court says decision against world’s biggest gene sequencing group should be annulled

    EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager speaks to the media in September 2022 after the European Commission blocked Illumina’s acquisition of Grail
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Gene-editing pioneer calls for big investment in Crispr technology

    Funding needed to drive innovation and make therapies available to all, says co-discoverer Jennifer Doudna

    Jennifer Doudna
  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    AstraZeneca PLC
    AstraZeneca strikes $2.4bn deal for radiotherapy biotech Fusion

    Acquisition gives pharmaceutical group mid-stage asset to challenge Novartis in new form of cancer care

    AstraZeneca logo
  • Sunday, 3 March, 2024
    Healthcare investor looks to cash in on pharma outsourcing trend with €1bn-plus sale

    GHO Capital has put contract research group FairJourney Biologics up for sale

    António Parada, who currently serves as chief executive
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    UK start-up raises $14mn to develop AI-boosted adaptable vaccines

    Baseimmune aims to predict future pathogen mutations to create jabs that will be effective for longer

    Baseimmune co-founders Ariane Gomes, Phillip Kemlo and Josh Blight
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    US biotech fundraising boom ends 2-year deal drought

    Drug developers raised $6bn in January, helped by a rebound in merger activity

    Kyverna Therapeutics staff celebrate its listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    New biotech aims to alleviate suffering caused by skin diseases

    Boston and Geneva-based enterprise believes new technology will transform dermatology

    A microscope view of human skin treated with a short interfering RNA (siRNA) drug
  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    Investors pile into psychedelic drug start-ups tackling mental health

    Sovereign wealth funds Temasek and Mubadala in talks to fund biotech groups harnessing mind-altering substances

    A montage of SPRAVATO, a nasal spray based on a molecule from the psychedelic drug ketamine, and a laboratory researcher removes a Psilocybe mushroom from a container
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Moral Money
    AI: Good news for monkeys Premium content

    Start-ups say new technology could help end animal testing by pharma companies

    A laboratory worker interacts with a monkey through the wall of a metal cage
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Drugs research
    Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly set to face new challenger in weight-loss race

    Danish biotech group Zealand Pharma is developing an alternative obesity treatment to compete with big rivals

    An injection pen of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Scientific research
    Scientists reprogramme microbes in quest to create new materials

    ‘Molecular factories’ boost field of synthetic biology, raising hopes of developing drugs and other products

    An X-ray of the crystal structure of a chain incorporating a beta-linked monomer building block
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Genomics
    Genome sequencing to yield new cancer treatments, UK study finds

    Expanded genetic profiling could lead to breakthroughs in diagnosis and therapy for common tumours, landmark global study finds

    3D render of virus cells attacking a DNA strand
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    UK start-up Genomics raises £35mn for advanced genetic testing

    Oxford university spinout working on polygenic risk scores to help predict disease

    Genomics Plc scientists analysing data
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Biotech boss tells Europe to invest if it wants a homegrown sector

    Argenx is one of the bloc’s largest biotech companies but its shareholder base is dominated by US specialist investors

    Tim Van Hauwermeiren: ‘
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Novo Nordisk AS
    Novo Nordisk signs deals worth up to $1bn with US biotechs in race for obesity drugs

    Danish manufacturer of Wegovy invests in two start-ups as part of efforts to stay ahead in major new market

    A worker at a Novo Nordisk facility
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Japan’s development bank makes first UK life sciences investment

    Lender invests in venture fund 4Bio Capital as it says UK sector has ‘significant untapped potential’

    CRISPR gene-editing expert Jonathan Weissman collaborates with a graduate student at his lab at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    US equities
    Biotech stocks undergo recovery after year of ‘wreckage’

    Sector benefits from shifts in interest rate expectations after 50% fall

    Employees work on the assembly line to produce Covid-19 self-test kits
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Lex
    China biotech: investors fear a negative reaction from the US Premium content

    Wuxi Biologics is likely to miss its original sales target for the year by about $400mn

    A dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine
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