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Novo sheds kidney drug licensed for $1.3bn a year ago

Novo Nordisk has abandoned a drug it licensed from KBP Biosciences last year in a deal valued at up to $1.3 billion after it missed the mark in a chronic kidney disease (CKD) trial.

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Lundbeck president and CEO Charl van Zyl

Lundbeck planning for four novel drugs in phase 3 in 2026

Denmark's Lundbeck has said that efforts to build its R&D portfolio are on track to deliver four new molecular entities (NMEs) in phase 3 trials in 2026, including an epilepsy drug from

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Sage cuts a third of its workforce after R&D setbacks

Sage Therapeutics has launched another round of layoffs as it deals with the fallout of abandoning a key pipeline drug for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

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Cell segmentation stain of human skin using the xenium cell segmentation antibody panel

First human skin atlas points way to healing without scars

Researchers have created a map of human skin that uses genomics and other technologies to understand how skin forms and the mechanisms behind skin disorders.

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Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

MicroRNA pioneers win Nobel Prize for medicine

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of microRNA, a class of RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regula

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Moderna will cut $1.1bn off its annual R&D spend

Moderna is showcasing its R&D pipeline to investors today, but the headline news is a decision to cut its R&D spend by a massive $1.1 billion a year from 2027, reversing years of gr

Novo sheds kidney drug licensed for $1.3bn a year ago

Lundbeck planning for four novel drugs in phase 3 in 2026

Sage cuts a third of its workforce after R&D setbacks

First human skin atlas points way to healing without scars

MicroRNA pioneers win Nobel Prize for medicine

Moderna will cut $1.1bn off its annual R&D spend

CDC panel votes to scrap hepatitis B birth dose advice

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