Johnson & Johnson said it will purchase Halda Therapeutics, marking the first major buyout for a cancer drugmaker built around so-called PROTACs, a buzzy new technology.
Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad offered a roadmap for expanding access to custom gene-editing treatments like the one used to treat Baby KJ's ultra-rare disease.
Exclusive: Arena Bioworks, the buzzy research institute that launched with $500 million to support a decade of scientific R&D, is abruptly shutting down, STAT has learned.
BridgeBio said an experimental therapy for a rare form of muscular dystrophy succeeded in a key trial, potentially setting up the first drug approval in the disease.
An experimental drug from Alector Inc. failed to slow the decline of patients with frontotemporal dementia in a late-stage study, the company announced Tuesday.