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SONOTEC presents extended non-contact flow meter series at Interphex

After successfully launching the SONOFLOW® CO.55 V3.0 flow meter last year, SONOTEC presents new sensor sizes to cover a wider range of biopharmaceutical applications. Designed …

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Biotech

Trial setback casts doubt on a biotech’s respiratory virus drug

Dive Brief: Enanta Pharmaceuticals’ pill to combat respiratory syncytial virus didn’t work in low-risk patients, with the company reporting Wednesday the antiviral did not significantly …

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Biotech

Vertex adds to Boston expansion with plans for new site

Dive Brief: Fresh off the dedication of a major new building in Boston’s Seaport, Vertex Pharmaceuticals said it’s making plans for yet another facility that …

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BIO

Solid Bio joins slate of biotech layoffs, shedding 35% of its workforce

Dive Brief: Gene therapy developer Solid Biosciences is laying off 35% of its employees, announcing Wednesday a plan to extend its current funds for another …

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Biotech

Pfizer buys a private biotech and its RSV drug research

Dive Brief: Pfizer said Thursday it will spend as much as $525 million to buy the privately held biotech ReViral, adding experimental treatments for respiratory …

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Biotech

As biotech retreats, gene therapy companies retrench and redraw plans

Bluebird bio has spent the better part of two decades developing gene therapies for rare diseases. This summer, after years of clinical trials, setbacks and …

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Biotech

Nektar, Bristol Myers drug combination fails in late-stage melanoma trial

Dive Brief: Shares in Nektar Therapeutics fell by more than half Monday morning after the San Francisco biotech company and partner Bristol Myers Squibb disclosed …

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Biotech

‘We have to make a stand’: Biotech leaders vow to break ties with Russia over Ukraine war

Hundreds of biotech leaders are pledging to stop working with Russian companies and to reject investment from Russian funds in response to the country’s invasion …

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Biotech

‘We have to make a stand’: Biotech leaders vow to break ties with Russia over Ukraine war

Hundreds of biotech leaders are pledging to stop working with Russian companies and to reject investment from Russian funds in response to the country’s invasion …

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Atlas

Amid biotech downturn, Atlas raises $450M to build new drug startups

Dive Brief: Atlas Venture, a prolific creator of biotech startups, has raised $450 million to form and invest in new drug companies, announcing Thursday the …

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Astellas

Third Harmonic, led by former Audentes CEO, launches with $155M in funding

Third Harmonic Bio, a biotech startup founded in 2019 by Atlas Venture, officially launched on Wednesday with $105 million in new funding to advance development …

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Biotech

A biotech wins the first FDA drug approval in a rare type of eye cancer

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday granted approval to the first drug for a rare cancer of the eye that has spread …

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Alzheimer

Cortexyme to shift focus after FDA places hold on experimental Alzheimer’s drug

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration has ordered California biotech Cortexyme to stop testing of an experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug, notifying the drugmaker in …

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Biotech

Gene editing startup Metagenomi raises $175M to advance research pipeline

Metagenomi, a biotech startup that three months ago struck a research alliance with Moderna, has raised $175 million to expand and build on its early …

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Barron

GSK loses R&D chief Barron to high-powered startup amid investor pressure

Hal Barron, GlaxoSmithKline’s top scientist and architect of the company’s plans to revitalize its drug research, will step down from his role later this year …

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anxiety

M&A anxiety, Roche’s comeback plan and Vir’s omicron moment

The second day of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, much like the first, didn’t include the type of market-moving acquisitions or announcements that might break …

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acquisition

Arena, completing its turnaround, sells to Pfizer for nearly $7 billion

Pfizer has agreed to acquire Arena Pharmaceuticals for about $6.7 billion in a deal that validates the San Diego biotech’s plan to reshape itself around …

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Biotech

A high-profile gene therapy biotech takes aim at Huntington’s

Huntington’s was the first illness ever traced back to changes in a specific chromosome. And yet, almost 40 years since that discovery, no drug has …

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Biotech

CGT CDMO Partnering: More than just Manufacturing

The biotech footprint has been exponentially expanding around the globe and no division has increased more feverishly in recent years than the Cell and Gene …

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Blueprint, taking aim at larger drugmakers, becomes a biotech buyer

Lengo’s drug targets a mutation in the gene that drives production of a protein called EGFR, which, in turn, can help spur tumor growth. The …

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