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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

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military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. —The U.S.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

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If you want fireworks this weekend, you can either celebrate the 4th of July or watch the latest post-Brexit political developments in Britain. To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence.

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Biotech Roundup: Hellos, Goodbyes, “Cures” Delays And Trial News

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All eyes are on Holmes, who is scheduled to present data from the company’s technology at a medical conference on August 1. million Series A to develop a drug, licensed from Columbia University, for the brain cancer glioblastoma… Lyndra , a Cambridge startup working on oral drug delivery technology, has received $5.4

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