Anti-aging play Elevian raises $15M equity roundElevian Inc. raised $15 million in an equity financing led by Prime Movers Lab. Also participating were Bold Capital Partners, For Good Ventures, Kizoo Ventures, Lauder Partners, Longevity Fund,...

Long-term study of AAV gene therapy in dogs finds genome integration, clonal expansionA team led by University of Pennsylvania scientists showed in Nature Biotechnology that adeno-associated viral (AAV8 or AAV9) gene therapy corrected factor VIII...

CatalYm is targeting a lesser known immunosuppressant function of GDF15 to resensitize cancer patients to checkpoint blockade and enhance the ability of CAR T therapies to infiltrate solid tumors. The Munich-based biotech has raised €50 million...

Baylor’s engineered T cells designed to avoid immune rejection Baylor College of Medicine has granted Fate Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:FATE) an exclusive license to alloimmune defense receptors, which render allogeneic cell therapies resistant to host immune...

Fountain is using an unbiased data-driven approach to identify compounds that reverse the biological process of aging, and in contrast to the traditional disease hypothesis-driven approach, the company is agnostic to indication. “Eighty percent of...

Novo Nordisk is set to deliver six clinical readouts in obesity in 2020. If successful, they could deliver Novo an opportunity to dramatically expand a mostly untapped market that could become a major future growth...