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Fresh off $120M raise, AI-powered Terray is teaming up with Gilead in multi-pronged R&D pact
Terray is ending the year on a high. Just two short months ago the biotech came out with a healthy…
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Fierce Biotech’s top 10 editor’s picks for 2024
The year kicked off with a flurry of dealmaking at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in January, and the pace…
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Merck drops TIGIT asset and LAG-3 program, discontinuing several phase 3 trials
Out with the old, in with the new. The end of the year in biopharma is typically marked by pipeline…
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UCB’s orchestra hits dud note: Novartis-partnered Parkinson’s asset fails phase 2
UCB’s Novartis-partnered investigational small molecule has failed to improve symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in a phase 2a trial. The oral…
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Roche mothballs another hemophilia A gene therapy under Spark amid plans to debut new hematologic asset
Following the apparent elimination of a late-stage gene therapy study last week, Swiss drug juggernaut Roche has confirmed that it’s…
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Candid Therapeutics unwraps three new collaborations to discover and develop T-cell engager antibodies
Candid Therapeutics, a new San Diego biotech bent on becoming a leader in the emerging T-cell engager space, has unwrapped…
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BMS keeps axing deals inked under old leadership, this time culling cell therapy pacts with Century, Immatics
Bristol Myers Squibb has terminated cell therapy pacts with two biotechs amid "ongoing portfolio prioritization efforts” within the Big Pharma,…
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Reviva’s antipsychotic shows promise against schizophrenia symptoms in year-long study
In the wake of the approval Bristol Myers Squibb’s Cobenfy, it seems that news has ramped up in the schizophrenia…
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A new, updated account of poroid fungi in North America
Poroid fungi, commonly known as “polypores,” are among the most frequently encountered fungi throughout the year because of their large…
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Few anti-immigration users dominate most of UK-based anti-immigration content on Twitter with rapid spread and high polarization
A study of more than 200,000 tweets from 2019 and 2020 finds that anti-immigration content spreads faster than pro-immigration tweets…