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AUGUST 12, 2024

A biotech prize for turning chemicals into food On the biotechnology front, the Mars Society plans to offer an incentive prize for methods that use microbes to convert simple chemicals, such as methane or methanol, into food. “Ask it anything you want, and you get the answer in multiple personalities,” he said.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Sana Biotechnology has a new $50 million tool in its toolbox. Gene editing technology is a key component in developing engineered cells as medicines, and we are pleased to have the ability to use the Cas12b system as part of a number of our ex vivo engineered cell programs,” said Steve Harr , Sana’s president and CEO in a statement.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Under the agreement, Takeda has options to exclusively license programs at the preclinical stage and will take products to the clinic and through commercialization. Immusoft’s most advanced therapeutic program is designed to treat a rare enzyme deficiency disorder, Hurler syndrome.

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MARCH 9, 2023

The publicly traded Seattle biotech company hired investment bank SVB Securities to review potential alternatives including a sale, merger, asset divestiture or licensing. “It Seattle biotech company Good Therapeutics sold its IL-2 program to Roche for $250 million in September and later rebranded as Bonum Therapeutics.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

based biotechnology company struck a deal with Merck in which the pharmaceutical powerhouse will provide a $600 million upfront payment and make a $1 billion equity investment to continue development of treatments for breast cancer. Seattle Genetics CEO Clay Siegall. Seattle Genetics Photo). Merck will own about 2.9

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Founded in 2018, Vouched helps companies verify the identity of customers and users by examining driver’s licenses and other forms of identification. Sana Photo) — Dhaval Patel joined Sana Biotechnology as executive vice president and chief scientific officer. It can provide fraud detection of a person in real-time.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

The UW has licensed the exclusive rights of this intellectual property to the startup. This funding will allow us to build upon our promising preliminary data demonstrating detection of Alzheimer’s disease at its earliest stages and further our preclinical therapeutic program,” Daggett said in a statement.

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