Obesity: Arecor Therapeutics partners with TRx Biosciences
The collaboration of the biopharma and drug discovery specialists targets a potential US$80bn market of obesity drugs, according to Bloomberg...
Bayer SE secures rights to in €310m deal
Under the licence deal, BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. will pass the commercialisation rights for the transthyretin stabiliser acoramidis in Europe where...
AMPLY Discovery Ltd bags £1.4m funding to tackle complex diseases
The 2021 spin-out from the Queen’s University Belfast announced it will close a seed financing round this year.vAMPLY is speeding up the discovery of...
AstraZeneca to acquire Amolyt Pharma for up to US$1.05bn
Under the agreement set to close in Q3/2024, AstraZeneca will acquire Amolyt Pharma for US$800m upfront and potential milestone payments of US$250m....
Genmab broadens ADC pipeline with $1.8bn acquisition of ProfoundBio
The acquisition will give Genmab access to ProfoundBio's portfolio of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), three of which are in clinical trials. The...
Protein flags Car-T cells for digestion by NK cells
The protein B7H6, which is highly expressed on activated human T cells, can flag the cells for clearance by natural killer (NK) cells, weakening the...
Scientists create non-digestible aptamer
The synthetic TNA nucleic acid analogues created by a biochemists at University of Cologne hrepresent a so called threofuranosyl nucleic acid...