Featured Story | By Amirah Al Idrus Johnson & Johnson put its late-stage COVID-19 vaccine study on hold because a patient has fallen ill. The pause comes just weeks after the company kicked off the 60,000-patient study and about a month after AstraZeneca suspended its own COVID-19 study for similar reasons. read more |
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Top Stories By Nick Paul Taylor Gossamer Bio’s GB001 has failed in two midphase trials in asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis. The failures come months after Novartis dumped rival DP2 inhibitor fevipiprant in response to a clutch of phase 3 flops. read more By Nick Paul Taylor EdiGene has raised around $67 million to advance work on gene-editing therapies. The Beijing-based biotech will use the series B funding to progress a pipeline led by a beta-thalassemia treatment and an allogeneic CAR-T therapy. read more By Amirah Al Idrus Voyager Therapeutics can’t catch a break—at least, it looks that way for its Huntington disease program. The gene therapy has run into an FDA hold, one year after Sanofi’s Genzyme unit pulled out of a collaboration on that program. read more By Amirah Al Idrus Despite the rise of CAR-T and other cell therapies, small molecules and antibody treatments remain the bread and butter of cancer treatment. Lassogen thinks it’s found a way to combine the power of antibodies and small molecules while overcoming their weaknesses—lasso peptides. read more By Arlene Weintraub Penn scientists engineered an antibiotic from an ingredient in the venom of the Korean yellow-jacket wasp. In mouse models of sepsis caused by E. coli—an infection that is becoming more and more resistant to marketed antibiotics—the compound was effective and not toxic to healthy cells. read more By Angus Liu Takeda, CSL Behring and the rest of the CoVIg Plasma Alliance have started commercial manufacturing of their coronavirus-fighting immunoglobulin drug. But scaling up won't follow the typical pharma process, as Takeda CEO Christophe Weber notes: Because it depends on plasma donations, the company isn't even sure how many doses it can produce. read more |  | Experts in our field with 20+ yrs. experience in Viral Vector & Plasmid DNA (R&D, High Quality, GMP) manufacture for pre-clinical to commercial supply. Now part of the Cognate BioServices family, Cobra has rebranded – look around our updated website. Learn more. |
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