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Bionetix, ProQinase, and MercachemSyncom have announced that they will jointly develop a new AML drug, from target identification to clinical testing

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Merck KGaA’s 2017 Swiss cancer spin-out iOnctura SA has raised €15m to bring its PI3K? inhibitor and autotaxin inhibitor to the clinic.

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Ministers from 72 countries came together at the Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ conference to discuss and adopt a joint communiqué on global trade. In it, the ministers agreed to strengthen rule-based free trade.

HepaRegeniX has raised €11m in a Series B. The biotech company will use the proceeds to bring its compound targeting chronic liver disease to the clinic.

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Swiss food giant Nestlé will invest up to €1.68bn to support sustainable packaging solutions and to create a market for plastic-free or recycled alternatives.

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mRNA cancer neoantigen specialist BioNTech AG is set to buy all shares of Neon Therapeutics, Inc. expanding its pipeline of neoantigen-targeting therapies and getting foothold in the US.

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British researchers have identified several small molecule drugs that sensitized B cell cancers to chemotherapy and extended survival in mouse models.

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Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc and Japanese Astellas Pharma, Inc. have signed a discovery partnership to develop off-the-shelf allogeneic T cell-based cancer therapies from stem cells.

Liquid biopsy tests such as Illumina's TSO500 are set to transform cancer diagnosis. © Illumina

Twelve years after Roche’s $6.8bn hostile takeover bid for Illumina, the companies have entered into a 15-year partnership to boost personalised NGS-based cancer testing.

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Incyte Corp. has signed a global license agreement for commercialisation of Morphosys AG’s anti-CD-19 programme tafasitamab.