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Novartis signs $5.2 billion pact with China’s Argo Biopharmaceutical

HQ Team September 4, 2025: China’s Argo Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Switzerland’s Novartis AG have inked a $5.2 billion pact to develop new.

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Eli Lilly to buy Verve for $1.3 billion, expands heart therapy segment

HQ Team June 19, 2025: Eli Lilly and Company will acquire gene-editing startup Verve Therapeutics, Inc. for up to $1.3 billion to pocket an.

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‘Mailman’ gene-editing tool carries molecule to exact ‘zip code’

HQ Team May 24, 2025: Stanford University researchers have developed a gene-editing technology, which they hope will lead to treatments for neurological diseases.

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Patient-scientist behind new gene-editing tool for prion disease

HQ Team April 10, 2025:  Sonia Vallabh, a graduate of Harvard Law School and her husband  Eric Minikel, who holds a planning degree.

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US regulator approves pig organ transplant trial to treat kidney disease 

United Therapeutics Corporation, a public benefit corporation, got approval from US regulators to start a clinical trial for organ transplantation from genetically modified.

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Global researchers complete world’s first synthetic yeast genome project

Global researchers, led by Australia’s Macquarie University, in a bid to re-engineer life in a laboratory, have completed the world’s first synthetic yeast.

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Moldova green lights Precision BioSciences human trial for HBV

A clinical-stage US gene-editing company, Precision BioSciences, got approval from the Eastern European country of Moldova to start an in vivo human trial.

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Roche to pay $42 million to Ascidian to make RNA exon editing drugs

Ascidian Therapeutics, a US-based biotechnology company announced a $42 million research pact with Swiss multinational Roche AG for developing gene editing therapies.

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US drug regulator approves two treatments for sickle cell disease 

HQ Team December 8, 2023: The USFDA has approved two treatments for sickle cell disease, one of them the first in the US.

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Cambridge Univ, AstraZeneca, MRC to set up genomics laboratory

HQ Team November 29, 2023: The University of Cambridge announced a partnership with AstraZeneca and the Medical Research Council to set up a functional genomics laboratory.

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