Cancer testing biotech Freenome announced on Thursday that it has raised an additional $254 million in private financing to support the development of its multiomics-based early detection tests.
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Through its Alexion subsidiary, AstraZeneca is acquiring Lexington, Mass.-based LogicBio Therapeutics in a deal worth $68 million. The deal bolsters AstraZeneca’s efforts in genomics and rare diseases.
While 90 may not be the new 40, it may become the new 75 or 80 as science, technology and policies converge to leverage the gains from the genomics revolution, which are making precision medicine a clinical reality.
Protein degradation continues to be a hot area of interest for companies. Weeks after Bristol-Myers Squibb and Evotec forged a $5 billion collaboration expansion to develop molecular glue degraders, Merck KGaA and Austria’s Proxygen have struck a similar deal valued at $554 million.
