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Roche working “around the clock” to tackle UK test supply pr...

Supplies of swabs for coronavirus and other critical NHS tests for diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease have been threatened by a failure at a facility operated by Roche.

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Roche pays $200m for Vaccibody's cancer vaccine drug

Roche’s Genentech unit has paid $200 million to develop an individualised cancer vaccine with Norwegian biotech Vaccibody, which focuses on targets known as neoantigens that spring up as tu

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AC Immune poleaxed on Alzheimer’s study fail

Shares in AC Immune have collapsed after partner Genentech revealed its tau-targeting Alzheimer’s drug semorinemab had flunked a phase 2 trial in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The Swis

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Novartis' bid to expand use of SMA gene therapy delayed afte...

Analysts have said the FDA’s request for a new trial will delay Novartis’ intrathecal formulation of its spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene therapy in older patients until 2023, potentially

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Roche bulks up in inflammation with €380m Inflazome acquisit...

Roche has made a second acquisition in the area of NLRP3 inhibitors for inflammatory diseases, buying Irish biotech Inflazome a couple of years after snapping up

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