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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals stock flirted with a breakout Friday after the biotech company said it's experimenting with drugs that will "silence" multiple troublesome genes simultaneously. Previously, that was impossible, Chief Executive Christopher Anzalone said late Thursday on CNBC's Mad Money. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (ARWR) is among a slew of biotech companies using technology called RNA interference to silence genes responsible for [...]

Eye drops that can reverse poor vision? It may sound like science fiction, but one Israeli company is aiming to bring this product to market. The drops passed their Phase 2b clinical trial earlier this month, meaning they’ve proven to improve farsightedness, the inability to see or read nearby objects, and are highly tolerable. Although [...]

Fortunes can shift precipitously in the drug-discovery world. At the start of the twenty-first century, all eyes were focused on a powerful gene-silencing technology called RNA interference (RNAi), and many companies saw the almost limitless potential of harnessing the tool to manipulate genes implicated in diseases.

Kitov Pharmaceuticals today announced its combination drug to treat osteoarthritis pain and hypertension.

RedHill Biopharma Ltd. announced today the full Week 52 results for all subjects in the Phase 3 randomized, controlled study of RHB-104 in Crohn’s disease (MAP US study) and supportive topline results from the open-label extension Phase 3 study (MAP US2 study).

A phase I/II trial run by the Dutch company ProQR has found that its RNA therapy could significantly improve the vision of people with Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a rare genetic disease for which there is no treatment.

After a nine-year run, AbbVie is calling it quits on its Reata Pharmaceuticals partnership. The Big Pharma, which ponied up more than $800 million for the rights to a set of Nrf2 activators for kidney disease and autoimmune disease, is now handing those rights back for $330 million in cash.

Reata Pharmaceuticals said Thursday it will pay AbbVie $330 million over the next two years to re-acquire most of the ex-U.S. rights for its leading drug candidates.

Motus GI, a medical technology company focussing on colonoscopy, has announced the first commercial placements of its Pure-Vu System as part of its initial U.S. market launch targeting early adopter hospitals.

Cerevance, a pharmaceutical company focusing on central nervous system diseases, has developed a new process for peering into the gene expression of specific brain cells. Their Nuclear Enriched Transcript Sort sequencing (NETSseq) platform can leverage a technique to specifically sort and isolate specific types of brain cells to more closely study each type. [...]

Alkahest is a clinical stage company with multiple therapeutic candidates in Phase 2 trials. The company is hoping to develop a treatment for patients with Alzheimer’s but is taking a different path. Alkahest is looking at the plasma proteome and, specifically, how it changes with age.

One of the main barriers to medication adherence among diabetics is the painful, constant administration of insulin using a needle and syringes. Moreover, subcutaneous insulin administration has long been admonished for its slow onset of action. People living with this chronic condition need a convenient and efficient method of administering this crucial hormone. Biopharmaceutical [...]

Spring resident Leah Cravens wanted to have a baby. With her husband diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, rendering him infertile, an in vitro fertilization was her only choice. The problem? Chronic migraines have been plaguing Cravens for more than 20 years, the medicine for which would be unsafe during her pregnancy.

Jessica Reeder worries about ticks and the diseases they carry. She had Lyme disease, her brother had Lyme disease, and every fall her children come home from school with notes reminding parents to do a nightly tick check. Even in Philadelphia, where Reeder lives, the bloodsuckers lurk in the woods around the playground. Her family [...]

Dance BioPharma has joined the Bay Area exodus, but its story is unlike some of the more high-profile departures.

Data on the company’s pacemaker-neurostimulator combo are probably good enough to permit further development – but first the company wants to hook a partner.

Amid the debate about why insulin costs so much lies a second question: if the hormone can be delivered more efficiently, will people with diabetes need less insulin? It’s not just a question that’s come up in the era of the artificial pancreas, as people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) work with technology that [...]

Due to the need for chemotherapy and the risks caused by allogeneic stem cell transplants in Fanconi anaemia patients, Rocket Pharma has developed gene therapy candidate RP-L102, which doesn’t need conditioning and corrects the gene mutation underlying Fanconi. Rocket CEO Guarav Shah explains RP-L102’s mechanism of action, as well as how the company is [...]

Drug resistance presents a significant challenge to oncologists. Therapies that were once capable of destroying the tumor are rendered ineffective once one resistant cancer cell begins to multiply. Part of the challenge of developing effective cancer therapies is tackling the multiple pathways by which drug resistance arises. Isaac Israel, CEO of Kitov Pharmaceuticals, and [...]

Dance Biopharm today said it rebranded as Aerami Therapeutics and will move its headquarters to Durham, N.C. The rebranding comes as the company seeks strategic partners for its Dance 501 inhaled human insulin. The company also hopes the rebranding will help progress into pivotal registration studies and expand to include inhaled therapeutics for endocrinology [...]

In the not very distant future, Type 2 diabetes patients may have an option to inhale insulin that acts faster and lasts longer than Lilly’s injected insulin Humalog or its generic, lispro, the current standard treatment. Durham-based Aerami Therapeutics, which changed its name from Dance Biopharm Holdings Inc. on Wednesday, reports that data from its Phase 2 [...]

Just over 20 years ago, a Lyme disease vaccine called LYMErix was approved for sale in the United States. Researchers designed the vaccine to prevent the transmission of the tick-borne pathogen Borellia burgdorferi, which spurs a bacterial infection that can cause fever, headaches, and joint pain if left untreated.

Data from a phase 2a clinical trial of DUR-928, an endogenous, small-molecule new chemical entity, for patients with alcoholic hepatitis demonstrated that the treatment led to greater reductions from baseline in bilirubin and MELD and improved Lille scores compared with a historical control group from a University of Louisville alcoholic hepatitis study, according to [...]

Nurix Therapeutics is harnessing the body’s natural process for controlling protein levels to target and degrade proteins that drive cancer and other diseases. Its small molecule therapies control key enzymes responsible for protein breakdown and can be used to modulate the levels of proteins within cells. The company believes it can leverage the approach [...]

DNA-encoded libraries are quickly surpassing traditional high throughput screens as industry’s first stop for hit generation. Now, developers are taking the technology up a notch to get more tractable hits in the output. DNA-encoded library (DEL) screens blow conventional high throughput screening techniques out of the water when it comes to library size and [...]