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Estuary Biotherapeutics is seeking to address the root cause of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with two gene therapy programs based on science from Yale.
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BioSpace is launching an IPO dashboard to help the industry keep tabs on U.S. biotechs that have taken the public plunge in 2026.
While Alnylam’s recent reduced revenue guidance spooked investors, analysts remain broadly bullish on the biotech’s commercial prospects.
The first-time CEO says her own sponsors took chances on her—and that industry leaders need to do the same to rebuild momentum for gender equity.
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Watching the baseball playoffs this week, I was struck by the parallels between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Eli Lilly. Both franchises spend a lot of money and always appear to come out on top.
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Following several recent initiatives, the FDA’s newest rare disease framework sets out to standardize the agency’s approach to scientific evidence and bring rare disease therapies to patients faster.
A new biotech co-founded by Paul Stoffels has formed to take on the CAR T cell assets of Galapagos almost a year after the company—now known as Lakefront Biotherapeutics—abandoned them.
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals’ siRNA candidate achieved “compelling” tau reductions in an early study of healthy volunteers, with a magnitude of effect that seems to outperformother blood-brain barrier platforms, according to Stifel.
While Oppenheimer doesn’t see the Phase 3 stumble of VQW-765 as highly detrimental to Vanda Pharmaceuticals, the analyst nevertheless believes the stakes are now higher for the company’s planned Q4 readout for Nereus in GLP-1-induced vomiting.
In this episode of Denatured, presented by Cytiva, Jennifer Smith-Parker speaks to Nicolas Pivet, VP & GM, Manufacturing & Digital Solutions at Cytiva. In this episode, we explore how biopharma’s real bottleneck isn’t too little data—it’s too little confidence in the decisions that drive development, manufacturing and commercialization.
The Gilead Sciences deal, which include $135 million in upfront and near-term payments, marks a critical platform validation for Vir Biotechnology as investors await an upcoming readout in solid tumors.
Revolution Medicines’ recently approved drug showed a 24% overall response rate and a high rate of side effects in patients whose cancer has a G12D mutation, reinforcing Mizuho’s view that a more specific agent such as Verastem Oncology’s VS-7375 “should come first for G12D patients.”
Since his release from prison in 2022, Martin Shkreli has traded stocks and publicly opined on news events, damaging reputations and sinking share prices for small biotechs including Capricor and Cassava, the FTC alleges.
Obesity-focused Zealand Pharma is buying into Generate:Biomedicines’s generative AI platform to create new multispecific drug candidates.
The candidate is an oral version of ecnoglutide, a subcutaneous formulation of which is approved in China for type 2 diabetes and weight management. Pfizer owns commercialization rights for ecnoglutide in the Asian country.