Editor’s note: Scores of family and friends gathered on March 9, 2020, to honor the life of Cyndi Rose McHolland Boome following a years-long battle against cancer. But Cyndi’s battle against disease actually began 50 years earlier when a tumor was found in her right shoulder. Cyndi was the...
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Biotech giant Illumina says it will undo its $7.1 billion purchase of the cancer-screening company Grail after losing legal battles with antitrust enforcers in the U.S. and Europe.
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Startup biotech Propella Therapeutics is being acquired by Japan-based Astella Pharma in a deal valued at $175 million. Here are the details.
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Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson, a professor at East Carolina University, and her team discovered a molecule that has the potential to stop skin cancer cells.
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Labcorp joins five other investors in backing a California-based startup focusing on early cancer detection and blood testing to detect minimal residual disease monitoring.
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To better fight lung cancer, TUNC –Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University researchers have been working on an extremely bendy but sturdy robot capable of traversing lung tissue to deal with very small, hidden tumors.
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Biofidelity, a medtech company with a lab in Morrisville, is launching new technology with the goal of helping lung cancer patients access targeted treatments. Read more about their new tech—and their plans to grow in RTP.
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DURHAM – A big licensing deal potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars with an Austrlia-based company at the same time also has triggered what Precision Biosciences calls a “right-sized” organization of the company. “Prior to the announcement, we had 190 employees, with 110 going forward with Precision. Most...
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Incyclix, an emerging biotech focusing on the fight against cancer, has secured nearly $3 million in a $30 million round announced in 2022. In an SEC filing, the company, whose founders include PPD Inc. founder and investor Fred Eshelman, says funding will be added incrementally...
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