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AbbVie is paying $255 million cash to acquire DJS Antibodies and the British biotech's platform for targeting transmembrane proteins.

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AM-Pharma, once a Pfizer takeover target, flunks phase 3 kidney injury trial

Pfizer may have dodged a bullet by walking away from AM-Pharma. The biotech, a onetime takeover target for the Big Pharma, has stopped a phase 3 clinical trial of its kidney injury candidate early after it failed an interim futility analysis.

Talaris restarts transplant trial with assurance the reasons behind patient death won't reoccur

Talaris Therapeutics has restarted its organ transplant trial after being assured that the circumstances behind a patient’s death this week won’t reoccur.

Roche plots multi-KRAS attack, paying Hookipa $25M for arenaviral immunotherapy

Roche is opening a new front in its targeting of KRAS-mutated cancer, agreeing to pay $25 million upfront and committing to up to $930 million in biobucks for the rights to Hookipa Pharma’s HB-700 and the option for another arenaviral immunotherapy.

J&J and Corning put more than 100 New York jobs on the chopping block in latest pharma layoff round

J&J is laying off 64 employees at its Johnson & Johnson Services plant on West 26th street in Manhattan. Around the same time, 51 New York-based Corning Pharmaceutical Technologies staffers are headed for the exit as the company downsizes its pharma packaging workforce in Big Flats.

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Scientists at Virginia Tech have discovered that the bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum accelerates the growth of cells in pancreatic cancer cells, offering insights into potential new approaches to cancer therapies.

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Veeva Systems has signed up 40 CROs to use its suite of clinical trial management tools as part of efforts to standardize systems to provide more efficient communications and operations.

Philips’ CPAP and BiPAP mask recall stretches to 22M devices, lands Class I FDA label

Just a few weeks after racking up its fifth Class I recall from the FDA this year, Philips has hit the half-dozen mark.

ACRO unveils Q&A toolkit to speed adoption of decentralized clinical trials

The Association of Clinical Research Organizations rolled out a new element to its toolkit for decentralized clinical trials as part of the trade group’s efforts to speed up the adoption of digital and hybrid methods.

NIH study finds Black patients receive end-stage heart failure treatments at half the rate of white patients

A study published this week highlights yet another area of potential racial bias in healthcare: end-stage heart failure therapies, where white patients were found to receive life-extending treatments at distinctly higher rates compared to Black patients.
 
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