Lady Gaga and her fiancé have launched a biotech startup, drawing attention to celebrity involvement in life sciences and its implications for funding and oversight.
Sanofi filed to cut 229 roles tied to Blueprint Medicines in Cambridge; reductions run from Oct 2026 through June 2027, per state filing.
The World Health Organization and Democratic Republic of the Congo are negotiating to expedite a multi-armed Phase 3 trial of vaccines targeting the Bundibugyo virus as the outbreak intensifies, WHO director-general warns.
A French non‑inferiority trial published in Lancet Healthy Longevity found no increase in deaths when low‑risk adults stopped statins at age 75; experts call for shared decision‑making and further study.
Sanofi has notified clinicians and patient groups that supplies of Myozyme and Nexviazyme for Pompe disease are dwindling due to bottlenecks and quality-control issues at its Waterford, Ireland, manufacturing site, which handles batch release for multiple markets.
A Senate committee held Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in hearings on Covid-19 origins, renewing calls for access to Wuhan records and transparent international investigations.
Congressional hearings over Covid-19 origins highlighted disputes over access to Chinese data, a contempt vote against Anthony Fauci, and calls for transparent international investigations.
Viruses are not alive and it would take another significant leap for AI to generate living organisms. The genetic code of the phage is around 5,400 base pairs (letters) long. The smallest genome of a living cell is around 500,000 base pairs. The human genome is three billion base pairs. Hie says “it would probably…
Speaking about the recent heatwaves, England’s health secretary, who also gave an interview to the Guardian newspaper on the topic, said: “I spoke to A&E staff who were telling me that they’ve had a big increase in patients coming into A&E linked to the heat in a way that you would normally only see in…
Prof Saul Faust, the director of the NIHR Clinical Research Facility in Southampton, said it gave “equivalent” immune responses to the conventional vaccine as well as being “safe and well tolerated” in the early stage studies. Faust added: “This obviously has potential to remove cold chain dependence, reduce wastage and improve access.” A larger trial…
