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| By Nick Paul Taylor Novo Nordisk is continuing to seek out obesity assets, paying 15 million euros ($16 million) to snap up Embark Biotech in its second weight loss takeover in quick succession. |
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By Nick Paul Taylor FibroGen’s rotten run continues. The biotech reported its fourth phase 3 failure in as many months after the market closed Tuesday, flunking a second Duchenne muscular dystrophy trial in quick succession to send it deeper into the mire. |
By Gabrielle Masson Notch Therapeutics is shuttering one of its three cell therapy centers—which also serves as its headquarters—and is working to find positions for its displaced staff at other companies in the industry. |
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By Max Bayer Scientists at the University of Oxford are once again teaming up CEPI to develop new prototype vaccines aimed at preventing future pandemics. The Norwegian preparers have committed $80 million toward the initiative, which will build on Oxford's adenovirus vaccine platform. |
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By James Waldron For a few years, it seemed that AgeX Therapeutics was locked in limbo—forever warning its cash was about to run out while never posting developments to its preclinical pipeline. Now, Serina Therapeutics has finally decided to act on the opportunity to leverage AgeX’s public listing as it pushes ahead with its lead Parkinson’s disease therapy. |
By Gabrielle Masson,Max Bayer,Annalee Armstrong Alongside the new year, we've launched a new Fierce Biotech Fundraising Tracker to keep the pulse on the industry's financing. |
By Noah Tong Critics of President Joe Biden's policies to rein in prices for 10 Medicare Part D drugs believe the policy is "draconian" and will stunt innovation in biotech and pharma startups. |
By Conor Hale Abbott aims to build optical coherence tomography into a preferred tool for guiding the placement of stents that increase blood flow to the heart muscle. But a pair of major late-breaking studies comparing OCT to other imaging techniques have delivered mixed results. |
By Kevin Dunleavy Last month, during a quarterly conference call—as Johnson & Johnson considered its future beyond separation of its consumer health unit—Chief Financial Officer Joe Wolk described the company’s appetite for M&A as “voracious." Helping fuel that appetite are the proceeds gained from the spinout of Kenvue. Wednesday, J&J said the offering had generated $13.2 billion in cash. |
By Andrea Park Lucid Hearing unveiled the “highest premium option” in its OTC line of hearing aids this week: The earbud-like $1,300 Tala. |
By Annie Burky In order to address deteriorating adolescent mental health, interventional behavioral health app BeMe Health moved to meet teens where they’re at—online. Amd according to new research, this methodology is proving successful. |
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