Brain-disease focused Cerevance and Takeda Pharmaceutical forged a research collaboration to tackle gastrointestinal disorders that have their roots in the central nervous system.

Omega Therapeutics debuted with a focus on epigenetics, the study of changes in gene expression that do not involve changes to the DNA sequence.

Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. reported that the cancer genomics company’s 500+ gene pan-cancer tumor profiling tissue assay is being used in Merck’s Phase 2 precision oncology KeyImPaCT study of biomarker-directed, pembrolizumab-based combination therapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-495).