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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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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? TOP STORIES : —Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE ) released data from an ongoing non-hodgkin lymphoma trial that, while early, bolster the view that the Santa Monica, CA, company could be the first to market with a cell-based immunotherapy product known as CAR-T.

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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.

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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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As a result, Biogen will buy the rights to nusinersen and prepare to ask regulators for marketing approval. Adicet raised $51 million earlier this year… Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ) of Thousand Oaks, CA, is paying $40 million immediately for rights to ADXS-NEO , a preclinical cancer treatment from Princeton, NJ-based Advaxis (NASDAQ: ADXS ).

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

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—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. The full data set has yet to be released.