GeekWire

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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

He develops tools to help understand massive-scale genomic and biomedical data and has helped generate online learning programs that have enrolled more than 8 million people. I think there’s a lot of room for creativity, especially within the data, machine learning and AI space at the interface between biotechnology and data science.

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