Business
Novo Nordisk Rules Out Big M&A for Now as It Works to Steady Its Pipeline
“In every data room” but buying nothing large. A CEO a year into the job declining the move markets usually reward.
Vaccines
FDA Approves Moderna’s mFlusiva, the First mRNA Flu Vaccine
Egg-grown flu vaccines force a strain guess months ahead. mRNA compresses that lead time — which is the actual argument, not the 27%.
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Research
Severe COVID Can Reawaken Dormant Viruses, Offering a New Clue to Long COVID
It was not immune weakness that woke the sleeping viruses. It was inflammation — and one obscure virus family tracked with long COVID.
R&D
Recursion and Genentech Validate Their First AI-Discovered Neuroscience Target
A trillion neurons, 46 million images, 15 months — and a $3 million milestone. The gap between those numbers is the honest measure of where AI discovery stands.
Business
QuantHealth Raises $45M to Simulate Clinical Trials Before Real Patients Enroll
Ninety percent of trials fail. A platform claiming 90% accuracy at predicting outcomes is reporting its own figure — which is the part to hold onto.
Business
Expedition Raises $115M for a China-Licensed COPD Pill Targeting Inflammation
COPD drugs open airways or damp inflammation broadly. A DPP1 inhibitor switches off the enzyme that arms the destructive enzymes in the first place.
Research
Startup Uses CRISPR to Breed Beagle Pups Free of the Main Dog Allergen
One base inserted, one protein gone, no foreign DNA. Two beagles that people allergic to dogs did not react to — and a set of questions the field has not answered.
Research
Scientists Discover Immune Cells That Explode Like Tiny Bombs to Kill Invaders
Five seconds from trigger to detonation, and almost no trace left behind. A defence mechanism nobody knew existed, in an animal that regenerates from fragments.
Business
Pfizer Deepens Cost Cuts Toward $6.7 Billion as Pandemic Revenue Fades
Comirnaty went from $38 billion to $4.4 billion in three years. Everything in this quarter’s results is a response to that single line.
Research
A Bean-Based Chewing Gum Cut Oral HPV by Up to 93% in Lab Tests
A bean protein that traps virus particles, delivered by chewing. Ex vivo only — no person has yet chewed it in a trial.
Research
AI Turns Brain MRIs Into Region-by-Region ‘Aging Maps’ to Study Dementia
One brain-age number hides where the aging is. Down to the voxel, the frontal and temporal lobes look older — and in Alzheimer’s, the hippocampus looks oldest.
Business
Vertex Beats Estimates, but a Rival 50 Times Smaller Looms Over Its Cystic Fibrosis Empire
A $121 billion company’s quarter beat estimates. The stock story is a $2.3 billion rival with a sweat chloride readout coming.