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Sarepta Therapeutics lays off one-third of workforce in drastic cost-cutting move
Sarepta Therapeutics announced it has laid off more than one-third of its workforce, a drastic cost-cutting move following ...
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NIH grant cuts, FDA transparency questions, and biotech M&A
On this week's episode of "The Readout LOUD": a closer look at the NIH’s grant-cutting legal playbook, FDA transparency ...
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FDA rejects Capricor’s cell therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
The FDA rejected a Duchenne muscular dystrophy cell therapy from Capricor Therapeutics, as a larger study of the treatment ...
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Sarepta Up 18% After Business Overhaul as Analysts Cautiously Optimistic
Sarepta Therapeutics appears to have right-sized itself after laying off over a third of its staff, announcing a significant ...
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Questions about the FDA’s ‘radical transparency’ efforts
Happy Friday. Today, we talk about the stem cell fire sale at CIRM, and about the FDA’s move to release a limited batch of ...
How Real-Life Tragedy Inspired ‘Guns & Moses’ Filmmaker Salvador Litvak To Make An Action Hero Out Of An Orthodox Rabbi
The idea for the script was partially inspired by the 2019 shooting at a Chabad-run synagogue in the San Diego suburb of Poway that left one dead and three injured (the perpetrator received two ...