Tag: genomics
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Juno Therapeutics Raises $265 Million in IPO
19 December 2014. Juno Therapeutics, a biotechnology company spun-off from research labs in Seattle and New York, raised some $265 million yesterday in its initial public stock offering. The Seattle enterprise developing cancer therapies that harness the immune system issued 11 million shares of common stock priced at $24.00, and trades on the Nasdaq exchange…
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Test Reveals, Measures Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk
12 December 2014. A study by Genomic Health, a developer of diagnostics for personalized cancer treatments, shows its test of an early-stage breast cancer can predict long-term chances of recurrence. Frederick Baehner, a pathologist at University of California in San Francisco and vice-president of Genomic Health, is scheduled to present the findings with colleagues today…
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Pfizer, Biotech Partner on Hemophilia B Gene Therapy
8 December 2014. Spark Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm in Philadelphia, is collaborating with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer to commercialize Spark’s gene therapy technology as a treatment for hemophilia B. Spark Therapeutics can gain as much as $280 million in the deal that involves sharing worldwide rights to Spark’s technology for hemophilia B with Pfizer. Hemophilia…
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Analytics, Genomics Companies Partner on Cancer Therapies
3 December 2014. Flatiron Health, a health care data-analytics firm, and the genomics analysis company Foundation Medicine are developing automated tools to better design cancer treatments matching patients’ molecular profiles, particularly for testing new therapies in clinical trials. Financial aspects of the collaboration were not disclosed. Foundation Medicine, in Cambridge, Massachusetts — founded by scientists at…
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Genome Editing Company Licenses University Technologies
1 December 2014. Editas Medicine, a Cambridge, Massachusetts start-up, licensed technologies developed by the company’s scientific founders and others that allow for editing the human genome to create new therapies. Financial terms of the exclusive licensing deals with Harvard University, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Duke University were not disclosed. Editas Medicine, founded in 2013,…
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Human Longevity Accessing Twins Genomic Database
13 November 2014. Human Longevity Inc., a bioinformatics and genomics company for solving age-related medical problems, is getting access to a database of genome and gut microbe samples from twins in the U.K. to provide a broader analytical base for designing new diagnostics and therapies. Financial details of the agreement between the San Diego company founded…
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Natural Product Can Boost Animal Immune Health
31 October 2014. Tests by Avivagen Inc. show an ability of beta-carotene to spontaneously oxidize that offers a natural alternative to antibiotics added to livestock feed to reduce illness and gain weight. The researchers from Avivagen, an animal health products company in Ottawa, Canada and National Research Council of Canada published their findings in today’s…
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Paper-Based Synthetic Bio Sensors, Circuits Developed
24 October 2014. Biomedical engineers at Harvard University designed systems with simple sensors applied on paper to detect complex cellular reactions that can speed use of point-of-care diagnostics in the field. Findings from the team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, with colleagues from Boston University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy…
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Project Developing DNA Antibodies for Infectious Diseases
21 October 2014. The biotechnology company Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. and partners are developing synthetic antibodies based on DNA that generate an immune reaction to prevent infectious diseases, a project funded by Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. The $12.2 million DARPA grant is supporting the work of Inovia, in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania,…
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Genomic Data Analysis Service Launches, Hosts Autism Data
20 October 2014. NextCode Health, a start-up informatics company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, unveiled its NextCode Exchange, a shared online genomics database and analysis service for diagnostics and research with sequencing data. The 1 year-old company also is hosting a genomics database of people with autism for online access to researchers. NextCode Health says its databases…