CRISPR proves to be a blessing for LASSA fever

Novartis signs USD 2.1Billion for Endocyte acquisition Novartis has inked USD 2.1 billion agreement to takeover Endocyte. Endocyte, a biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Indiana, licensed the cancer drug that catches Novartis’ eye for USD 12 million. Endocyte was in the stagnation when it held its recovery h...

Orchard files for USD173 Million IPO to run pivotal gene therapy trials Orchard Therapeutics, Transatlantic biotech, has filed to raise USD 173 million in an IPO. This will lead it to take three gene therapies through the clinic. Orchard recognised itself as one of the broadest clinical-phase gene therapy pipelines ...

FDA approves transthyretin amyloidosis therapy of Akcea, Ionis Patients with an orphan, hereditary disease that is transthyretin amyloidosis with a second new treatment option are available after the Food and Drug Administration approved Akcea Therapeutics and Ionis Pharmaceuticals' Tegsedi.  As Tegsedi is approved,...

The interleukin-33 antibody of AnaptysBio passes midstage test in asthma The pipeline drug, etokimab of AnaptysBio, has positive data in a third indication that adds asthma to one of its triumphs. The US-based company gets another proof-of-concept study for the interleukin-33 (IL-33) inhibitor, because of phase 2a ...

Merck & Company virology business is flickering, after announcing two of its new HIV medications that bagged approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The oral medications, Pifeltro and Delstrigo, are taken once-daily with or without food for adult HIV-1 patients, who have never received antiretrovir...

AstraZeneca dragout Entasis files to fund antibiotic phase 3 for USD 86 Million IPO Massachusetts-based Entasis Therapeutics has spun out to raise up to USD 86 Million through an IPO. The AstraZeneca spinout is attempting to fund a phase 3 trial of a drug to overcome bacterial resistance to beta-lactams. In 2015, ...