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Bio Roundup: CAR-T & Migraine Races, Intra-Cellular, Rockefeller & More

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Who will be first to market with a new type of cancer treatment known as CAR-T? Who will break free of the pack of companies developing drugs meant to prevent migraines? —Sarepta inked a research pact with Catabasis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CATB ) to develop a combination therapy for Duchenne.

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Bio Roundup: Mylan’s Shock, Hillary’s 3%, Duchenne Lessons & More

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Two days later, it paid AstraZeneca $550 million upfront for the rights to a group of antibiotics either already on the market or in late-stage testing. It will retain the PixarBio name and aims to start trading on the over-the-counter market during the second week of September. Morgan party.

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Biotech Roundup: Scangos’s Exit, Zafgen’s Shakeup, Jounce, Relypsa & More

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Xconomy spoke with CEO Tom Hughes about the decision, which is terrible news for patients with the rare disease Prader-Willi Syndrome; Zafgen had hoped to win FDA approval of beloranib in Prader-Willi, which would have made it the first marketed drug for the disease since human growth hormone over a decade ago.

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Biotech Roundup: Biogen Rumors, Theranos, Electro-Drugs & More

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Instead, Holmes promoted a new system, MiniLab , in development. As a result, Biogen will buy the rights to nusinersen and prepare to ask regulators for marketing approval. Holmes claimed it would be able to produce multiple test results from a single blood sample without shipping blood to a lab. SMA has no approved treatments.

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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

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—More developments arrived this week in the Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT ) saga. —On the positive side, Thousand Oaks, CA-based Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ) released an overview of Phase 2 data that showed its migraine prevention drug, erenumab, is keeping pace with rival drugs in a heated race to market.