Roche leads Freenome Inc US$257m financing
Roche led the financing that will be used by San Francisco-based Freenome Inc to finance testing its early cancer detection platform in the Vallania...
Essential Pharma acquires Renaissance Pharma Ltd
Renaissance Pharma Ltd, which was only founded in September 2023 with the licensing of the anti-GD2 antibody from St Jude Children's Research...
Novozymes and Chr. Hansen Complete Merger, Forming Novonesis
In a significant development in the biosolutions sector, Novozymes A/S and Chr. Hansen Holding A/S successfully completed their merger, forming a new...
Roche jumps ship on AC Immune
In recent trials, both Semorinemab, a monoclonal antibody (mAb) binding all forms of Tau, and Crenezumab, a mAb targeting multiple forms of misfolded...
Roche opens €90m gene therapy development centre
Roche sees the €90m investment as a harbinger of the German government's "National Strategy for Gene and Cell Therapies", which has been...
AstraZeneca to take over Fusion Therapeutics Inc
Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc‘s acquisition for US$2bn upfront marks a major step forward in AstraZeneca delivering on its ambition to transform cancer...
2:1 for new genomic techniques
At the end of December, genetic engineering sceptics celebrated that the Council of Agriculture Ministers narrowly failed to reach a qualified...