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Biogen’s ALS drug gets partial backing from FDA panel

If approved, the medication, tofersen, would be the first drug targeting a specific genetic cause of the incurable paralysis disease to get the regulatory green light.

At Senate hearing, Bernie Sanders grills Moderna CEO for quadrupling COVID vaccine price
Moderna has previously said it will make its COVID shots freely available to anyone without insurance, but senators were skeptical about how that would work.

Can light reset brainwaves to treat Alzheimer’s? This Boston startup has $73 million to find out.
Cognito Therapeutics has started an advanced clinical study of its experimental device based on groundbreaking research at MIT.

Boston scientists say they’re a step closer to growing human eggs in the lab
George Church’s lab at the Wyss Institute of Harvard is one of a handful around the globe trying to coax adult stem cells, derived from blood or skin, to become human eggs capable of forming an embryo.

‘We’ll look back and say that this was a bargain.’ Takeda reveals first data from its $4 billion autoimmune disease pill.
The experimental drug, which the drug maker bought earlier this year, completely cleared some patients’ plaque psoriasis in a clinical trial.

MGB-backed biotech raises $85 million to develop drugs for diseases that cause scarring in organs
Mediar Therapeutics also named Rahul Ballal, a pharmaceutical industry veteran, as the Cambridge company’s CEO.

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‘We’ll look back and say that this was a bargain.’ Takeda reveals first data from its $4 billion autoimmune disease pill.

The experimental drug, which the drug maker bought earlier this year, completely cleared some patients’ plaque psoriasis in a clinical trial.

MGB-backed biotech raises $85 million to develop drugs for diseases that cause scarring in organs

Mediar Therapeutics also named Rahul Ballal, a pharmaceutical industry veteran, as the Cambridge company’s CEO.

Training program for life science careers draws $1 million donation

Developer Samuels & Associates is helping to fund a new biotech training program at Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology.

UMass biotech to lay off 25 workers

The university says the job cuts will not affect its work on an alternative treatment for Lyme disease.

Cambridge biotech testing experimental ALS drugs based on Harvard research

QurAlis says it has raised $88 million for early-stage clinical trials of two treatments for the devastating condition.

Flagship’s latest startup aims to develop drugs with fewer side effects

Boston-based Ampersand Biomedicines launches with $50 million from the Cambridge firm to design medicines that better target the site of a disease than existing treatments.

Full approval and Medicare coverage of new Alzheimer’s drug could come in July

Leqembi costs $26,500 a year, not including expensive brain scans and biweekly visits to infusion centers, putting it out of reach for most patients unless it is covered by insurance.

Chroma Medicine raises $135 million for its epigenetic editing therapies

Chroma’s approach, known as epigenetic editing, could have broad applications for treating both rare and common diseases.