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More than 150,000 Americans have now enrolled in the largest health study ever sponsored by the federal government, according to an update delivered Friday. But that leaves 850,000 more to be added in a little over three years to get the goal of 1 … […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SleepScore Labs, the company behind the world?s most advanced sleep improvement system and the only curated store of sleep products, today released research demonstrating that Gravity Blanket is an effective sleep imp… […]

TAMPA, Fla. & STOCKHOLM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vycellix CEO to present strategies for enhancing next-generation Natural Killer Cell-based cancer therapy at Innate Killer Summit in San Diego. […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a life sciences instrumentation company that develops and markets Saphyr, a platform for ultra-sensitive and ultra-specific structural variation detection in genome analysis, today anno… […]

LA JOLLA?Salk researchers have found, for the first time, that a blood-clotting protein can, unexpectedly, degrade nerves?and how nerve-supporting glial cells, including Schwann cells, provide protection. The findings, published March 14, 2019, in the … […]

Epic Sciences has commercialized a blood test that can predict how likely a patient with late-stage prostate cancer treated with hormones is likely to respond to an additional course of such therapy. Now, the San Diego-based company has additional data… […]

Ozanimod, a drug for multiple sclerosis originating at Scripps Research, has been submitted for European approval by Celgene. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration marketing application is also on track for filing by the end of March, the New Jersey-… […]

San Diego?s Triton Algae Innovations says the Food and Drug Administration has accepted its edible algae as safe to eat. The FDA?s designation clears the way for the startup to sell its algae as a food ingredient. The FDA says it has ?no questions?… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Escient Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a San Diego-based biotech advancing first-in-class GPCR-targeted drugs, appoints industry vet William Hodder as CBO. […]

Connect, a 34-year-old nonprofit which runs the well-known Springboard Accelerator Program for startups, announced Monday that it had tapped Silvia Mah, a San Diego investor and entrepreneur, as its new president. She succeeds Greg McKee, who served as… […]

MARTINEZ, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ExThera Medical Corporation (ExThera) today announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board. Led by chairman Lakhmir (Mink) Chawla, MD, current Chief Medical Officer of La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company, the Sc… […]

Spring has sprung, and it?s shaping up to be another busy season for San Diego?s life sciences community. As we head into the weekend, crossing our fingers that the seemingly endless rain showers will be replaced by our usual sunshine, here?s a quick r… […]

Cancer drug developer Oncternal Therapeutics will become publicly traded, under terms of a reverse merger announced Thursday. The San Diego company said it has agreed to purchase the majority ownership of GTx, a publicly traded biotech in Memphis, … […]

Chinese pharma company BeiGene has agreed to pay Ambrx $10 million upfront to experiment with technology the biotech has developed in a bid accelerate BeiGene?s search for new protein drugs for cancer treatment. Ambrx says its technology is able to inc… […]

Lethal flu infections can be blocked with an orally taken drug, in mice and perhaps eventually in people, according to a new study. The work in influenza A strains was led by scientists at Scripps Research and a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. Th… […]

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) today announced that Matt Browne, a partner in Cooley LLP?s San Diego office; and David L. Szekeres, senior vice president, Business Development, and general counsel for Heron Therapeutics, Inc.,… […]