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Swiss drugmaker Roche said Monday it entered into an exclusive licensing and collaboration agreement with Nurix Therapeutics to develop a blood-cancer treatment, in a deal valued at up to $2.3 billion.
3 MIN READColumbia University researchers used a DNA-editing technique called base editing to correct disease-causing mutations in early-stage human embryos, publishing results Monday on a preprint server. The work marks a step in embryo gene…
3 MIN READWASHINGTON — The chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have signed a letter urging Congress to require companies that sell synthetic DNA and RNA to screen customer orders, citing the risk that artificial intelligence…
4 MIN READCanada has become the first G7 country to approve a generic version of the popular GLP-1 drug semaglutide, injectable generics are expected in Canadian pharmacies as of June at less than a third of the brand-name price, according to Health…
3 MIN READNovo Nordisk has launched its oral Wegovy obesity pill in the United Arab Emirates, marking the drugmaker's first expansion of the pill version beyond the United States. Separately, Canadian generic-drug manufacturer Apotex Health moved…
4 MIN READEli Lilly said its next-generation obesity drug retatrutide helped study participants lose an average of more than 70 pounds over 80 weeks, based on clinical trial results discussed publicly. NPR reported that retatrutide is a weekly…
3 MIN READPlants with extra copies of their chromosomes—called polyploids—show evidence of having survived past periods of extreme environmental stress, according to new research. NPR reports that a study led by plant biologist Yves Van de Peer…
3 MIN READA single dose of genetically modified immune cells suppressed HIV to undetectable levels in two patients for nearly two years after they stopped their daily medication, researchers reported Tuesday, offering an early but provocative signal…
3 MIN READScientists reported at an American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy meeting that a single dose of CAR-T cells suppressed HIV in two people without restarting their usual medications. The approach, led by researchers at the University of…
3 MIN READJ. Craig Venter, the geneticist who raced the U.S. government to decode the human genetic blueprint and later pioneered synthetic life, died April 29 in San Diego at age 79. His institute attributed his death to complications from cancer…
3 MIN READJ. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape disease, died Wednesday. He was 79. The J. Craig Venter Institute said his death was announced by the institute, which said he…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump issued an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, shifting how it is regulated under federal drug law. The change, issued Thursday, does not legalize marijuana for…
3 MIN READThe biotech company Colossal Biosciences said Tuesday that it hatched 26 baby chickens in an artificial environment using an eggshell-like structure. Scientists not involved in the work said the development shows progress in avian embryo…
3 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it will convene an outside advisory panel in July to consider whether seven unapproved peptide injections should be cleared for production by compounding pharmacies, and said it will…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned ImmunityBio that marketing materials and podcast remarks by biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong for its bladder cancer drug Anktiva violated federal rules on drug promotion, according to an…
3 MIN READThe U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and buried as unknowns at a Honolulu cemetery, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced…
5 MIN READNovartis has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of Henrietta Lacks over allegations that the company unjustly profited from HeLa cells taken from her tumor in 1951 without her knowledge. The settlement, finalized this month in federal…
3 MIN READMardi Gras season returns to New Orleans with a new option for parade-goers: biodegradable “PlantMe Beads” designed by researchers at Louisiana State University. The beads, 3D-printed from a starch-based material and filled with okra…
3 MIN READThailand has begun using a birth-control vaccine on wild elephants to try to slow the growth of a population that increasingly encounters people as farms expand into forests, according to the government’s wildlife office. The program…
4 MIN READModerna said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider its application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology. The company said FDA sent it a “refusal-to-file” letter after objecting to how Moderna conducted a…
3 MIN READHims & Hers said it will launch a compounded, lower-priced pill version of Wegovy, just weeks after Novo Nordisk’s reformulated Wegovy became available. Novo Nordisk said it will take legal and regulatory action, calling Hims’s product an…
3 MIN READLAS VEGAS officials said a SWAT team served a search warrant at a home on Saturday after a tip led investigators to a suspected biolaboratory. Authorities took into custody the property manager and said investigators found evidence that…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration announced Thursday that the National Institutes of Health will no longer fund research using human fetal tissue derived from abortions. The policy, long sought by anti-abortion groups, expands restrictions the…
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