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Excerpt from the Press Release: SUNNYVALE, Calif. & PITTSBURGH, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute, and Peptilogics, a biotechnology platform company and an emerging leader in leveraging computation to design novel therapeutics, today announced a collaboration to accelerate the development cycle of peptide therapeutics through AI. Leveraging the revolutionary Cerebras…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Gritstone bio is developing Covid-19 vaccines that use self-amplifying messenger RNA, which is intended to further boost the immune response compared to mRNA alone. The company also says its vaccine candidates may be able to protect against variants of the novel coronavirus. As coronavirus variants continue to fuel the ongoing…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: The FDA wanted a couple more clinical studies for Qualigen’s investigational COVID-19 antiviral before human testing, but the biotech is calling it quits instead. Shares of the company plunged nearly 20% to $1.34 as the markets opened Tuesday, underscoring the risk that small companies take on when trying to jump…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Shorla Pharma (‘Shorla’), a specialty pharmaceutical company and EVERSANA™, the pioneer of next generation commercial services to the global life sciences industry, today announced a partnership to support the launch and commercialization of Shorla’s oncology portfolio. The new partnership will initially focus on SH-111, an oncology drug designed…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is informing patients, health care providers, and manufacturers about cybersecurity vulnerabilities with a “real-time operating system (RTOS)” designed by QNX and owned by BlackBerry. These vulnerabilities may introduce risks for certain medical devices and drug manufacturing equipment. FDA is not aware of any confirmed adverse events related to these vulnerabilities. Manufacturers…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Subsidies, tax breaks and funding will keep momentum going in Canada’s promising biomanufacturing industry. Why weren’t we better prepared? The frantic search for gloves and masks, then ventilators and life-saving drugs, and then the scramble to ramp up testing, slow the deaths in long-term care and deploy vaccines — the…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BRISBANE, Calif. – August 10, 2021 – Second Genome, a biotechnology company that leverages its proprietary platform sg-4sight to discover and develop precision therapies and biomarkers based on novel microbial genetic insights, presented data from the largest analysis of microbiome function in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as well as preclinical activity…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Aug. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNE, “Sorrento”), a clinical and commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing new therapies to treat cancer, pain and COVID-19, announced today the availability of a presentation on its corporate website to provide an overview of Sorrento’s proprietary mRNA vaccine development program for COVID-19.…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — CorEvitas, LLC, the leading sponsor of registries in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases announces first patient enrollment in a new biospecimen study for patients enrolled in its rheumatology registries. Eligible rheumatology registry patients will contribute biological specimens that will be linked to longitudinal provider reported clinical and…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Canada to build a state-of-the-art messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada including access to Moderna’s mRNA development engine. The goals of…
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