Cure Genetics, a Chinese biotech startup that focuses on the treatment of cancers and genetic diseases, has secured $60 million in a Series B round of financing led by China-focused private equity (PE) firm Advantech Capital... Read More >

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of defrauding investors after a months-long landmark trial in California. Read More >

The agency is expanding the use of a single booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to children ages 12–15 and is shortening the time between primary vaccination and booster to at least five months.... Read More >

Single-cell DNA sequencing firm Mission Bio said on Thursday that it has signed an agreement with China's SequMed to collaborate on services and the development of clinical applications.... Read More >

On December 29, Shanghai Weihe Medical Laboratory Co., Ltd. was established with a registered capital of 1 million yuan. Equity penetration information shows that the company is indirectly wholly-owned by ByteDance.... Read More >

Scientists at Scripps Research, University of Chicago and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a new Achilles’ heel of influenza virus, making progress in the quest for a universal flu vaccine. ... Read More >

Siemens Healthineers announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test,1, 2, 3 providing nationwide access to a new at-home or over-the-counter self-test as COVID-19 testin... Read More >

Omnicell, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMCL), a leading provider of medication management solutions and adherence tools for health systems and pharmacies, has completed the previously announced acquisition of ReCept Holdings, Inc. ... Read More >

The research describes a new and fast computational approach to obtain precisely dated evolutionary trees, known as ‘timetrees’. Read More >

Novo Nordisk today announced that the acquisition of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Dicerna; Nasdaq: DRNA), announced on 18 November 2021, has been completed.... Read More >