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Vista?s DJO Global has been sold for $3.15 billion in cash by investors led by the Blackstone Group to Colfax Corp, a diversified technology company in Maryland. Sale of the orthopedic products company, announced Nov. 19, is expected to close in th… […]

San Diego?s ResMed, a seller of equipment and software for sleep apnea and related conditions, says it has agreed to buy Propeller Health for $225 million. Madison, Wis.-based Propeller Health provides devices and software for people with chronic o… […]

Diabetes therapy developer ViaCyte has raised $80 million, its largest financing to date, ?the San Diego biomedical company said Wednesday. ViaCyte will use the money to advance its stem cell-derived therapies, said Paul Laikind, president and CEO … […]

A major new study on Alzheimer?s disease provides previously unknown evidence of how the brain-robbing illness may originate. Moreover, it proposes that certain HIV drugs called reverse transcriptase inhibitors could immediately be repurposed for A… […]

San Diego agricultural biotech company Cibus said Monday it has filed for an IPO of up to $100 million. It’s the second IPO filing for a local biotech in a week. The company says it uses advanced gene-editing technology to favorably alter plant gen… […]

The Salk Institute and former Salk scientist Beverly Emerson said they have settled her lawsuit, the last of three gender discrimination cases filed by female researchers in 2017. "The Salk Institute and Dr. Beverly Emerson announce that they … […]

Muscular and possessing a killer handshake, Bradley Couch fit right in with the athletic set of bicyclists taking part in Saturday?s Padres Pedal the Cause, an annual fundraiser to support cancer patients and research in San Diego. Surprisingly, Co… […]

Arena Pharmaceuticals will get $800 million cash upfront in a mammoth global drug commercialization deal announced Thursday. The San Diego biomedical company licensed its lung disease drug, ralinepag, to North Carolina?s United Therapeutics Corp. I… […]

Synthorx, a La Jolla biotech developing cancer therapies from partly synthetic life, is seeking $100 million in an initial public offering. The Scripps Research spinoff made the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. It seek… […]

Challenging the popular but pricey EpiPen, San Diego?s Adamis Pharmaceuticals is readying its own emergency allergy medication for sale. Called Symjepi, the product is a pre-filled syringe of epinephrine, used to counteract life-threatening allergi… […]

Henrietta Lacks? ?immortal cells? contributed enormously to the progression of scientific discovery, but Lacks, a poor, black woman who died from cervical cancer in 1951 months after her cells were harvested, never personally benefited from or consente… […]

Twelve years ago, Eric Dudl had begun his postdoctoral research at Sanford Burnham Prebys Biomedical Research Institute (SBP) when he received shocking news. He had the same disease he was working to eradicate: cancer.?

Despite his diagnosis, Eric did… […]