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LA JOLLA?Around 85 percent of lung cancers are classified as non-small-cell lung cancers, or NSCLCs. Some patients with these cancers can be treated with targeted genetic therapies, and some benefit from immunotherapies?but the vast majority of NSCLC p… […]

At Takeda, one of the top priorities in the R&D group since the $62 billion acquisition of Shire closed at the beginning of the year has been centered on creating a shared culture ? and that calls for some group activities.?
Six weeks after the dea… […]

HireAHelper.com, an online marketplace that links people who are moving to a new home with local movers and related services, has been acquired by Porch, which operates a marketplace that connects people with a variety of home repair and improvement se… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Abzena, the global partner research organization, announced it has successfully completed a technology transfer and scalability evaluation using the Synaffix technologies of GlycoConnect? (antibody conjugation) and HydraSpac… […]

Prehuman ancestors lost the ability to make a sugar molecule called a sialic acid. This led to a number of effects, both good and bad, in modern humans. The findings are contained in a study by UC San Diego scientists. […]

Carlsmed, a San Diego-based medical technology company that?s developing personalized spinal implants, has merged with Precisive Surgical, a spine imaging system startup in Seattle. The combined company, which will operate in San Diego under the Carlsm… […]

Comic-Con International may be holding everyone?s attention this week, but the tech community has stayed busy amid all the action (and increased traffic). Let?s catch up with the latest tech news in San Diego. ?San Diego?s AON Devices was among 10 star… […]

LA JOLLA?The world is filled with millions upon millions of distinct smells, but how mammals? brains evolved to tell them apart is something of a mystery.
The post How mammals? brains evolved to distinguish odors is nothing to sniff at appeared first o… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MXR The Imaging Solution Company has developed offerings into MRI, CT, and ultrasound imaging equipment and services. […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#DisruptiveTechnology–CARLSMED, Inc., a San Diego-based medical technology company, and Seattle-based spine imaging company Precisive Surgical announce merger. […]

An immune system protein that usually protects the body from pathogens is abnormally produced in the brain during Parkinson?s disease, scientists from Sanford Burnham Prebys report. The discovery, published in Free Radical Biology & Medicine, indic… […]

Trefoil Therapeutics, which is developing treatments for diseases that affect the cornea, the outermost layer of the eye, has raised $28 million to move its lead drug candidate into human testing. The company is developing an engineered form of fibrobl… […]

Prestigious investors from Section 32 and Illumina Ventures have backed Cradle Genomics, a startup developing prenatal tests […]

Another company headed by former Illumina executives has launched, fueled with a $17 million Series A round from investors including a local venture capital firm. The new firm, Cradle Genomics, is seeking to commercialize improved non-invasive prenatal… […]

Texas VC Bios Partners has found a new early-stage play to love out of San Diego, leading a $28 million Series A to help Trefoil Therapeutics make the leap to the clinic.
Stella Robertson Bios Partners
Stella Robertson, who headed R&D at Novartis? … […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced the global expansion of Illumina Accelerator to Cambridge, United Kingdom. Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2014, Illumina Accelerator is a company creation engine focuse… […]

Three venture capital firms were the most active in San Diego during the second quarter of 2019 […]

Organoids symposium meets in San Diego in late August […]