With the pandemic raging, regulators are breaking down the distinction between symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 testing, and opening the door to individual self-screening. Communications from FDA...

December has been a busy month for Alzheimer’s therapies testing new hypotheses outside of amyloid, with the latest coming Wednesday from Novo Nordisk, which said it is taking semaglutide into Phase III...

IgGenix is pairing single-cell sequencing with antibody engineering to create a new class of food allergy therapies that selectively suppresses allergen-triggered immunity while sidestepping the risky steps of desensitizing immunotherapy.  The company launched in August with...

After the sudden, COVID-driven market declines that closed out 1Q20, biotech stocks rebounded in the second quarter with a force that has put shares up year to date. Many of the biggest moves came from...

With positive initial data for Ayvakit in indolent systemic mastocytosis, Blueprint is moving into position to expand its only approved drug into a much larger patient population while sticking to its strategy of focusing on...

Propelled by growing understanding of their biology, and an expression pattern that goes well beyond T cells, SIGLEC proteins are rising as the next set of checkpoint targets to challenge PD-1. The sugar-binding proteins could...

Merck, Prokaryotics, Princeton ID new class of antibiotic Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK), Prokaryotics Inc. and Princeton University researchers reported in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper the identification of MRL-494, a...

Preclinical studies showing the utility of CAR T cells outside of cancer are ramping up, and developers have taken notice. But turning the modality into a general-purpose tool will require companies to break through safety...

The largest test of the idea that ALS is driven by neuroinflammation will come from the first collaborative platform trial in the disease, which could blow open the range of pathways and targets in play...

Not even the dilution of an upsized follow-on offering could slow Allakos’ momentum as its share price marched north steadily through midweek on the strength of Phase II data in eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders, suggesting investors...