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SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cytonus Therapeutics Inc. announced today that it has developed Cargocytes? a first-of-its-kind, controllable, cell-based platform technology for delivery of biologics. Cargocytes are engineered allogenic cell lines that can… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDTX), a biotechnology company developing novel anti-infectives including immunotherapies, today announced that data from studies of its lead antifungal rezafungin will be presented at the … […]

Battery-technology business Maxwell Technologies has agreed to be acquired by Silicon Valley electric car company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) in an all-stock deal valued at about $218 million, the San Diego-based company announced Monday. Maxwell (NASDAQ: MXW… […]

San Diego’s Halozyme Therapeutics will get $30 million upfront, with the possibility of hundreds of millions more, under a licensing agreement with a European biotechnology company announced Monday. Argenx, based in the Netherlands, is licensing Ha… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) announces closing an investment in Dianomi Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the delivery and efficacy of large and small molecules in the… […]

Magnolia Medical Technologies, a Seattle-based manufacturer of devices for collecting blood and bodily fluids, announced this week it has raised $20 million in equity funding to ramp up sales of its flagship product. The funding comes as Magnolia and S… […]

A cancer-fighting gene known as the ?guardian of the genome? actually promotes certain tumors, according to a study by UC San Diego researchers. That means drugs that affect its activity may backfire in some cases, fueling the tumor?s growth. Calle… […]

Gossamer Bio is dropping its plan to pursue a little-used path to the public markets and will instead return to a conventional IPO that is reviewed by securities regulators. The company initially filed for an IPO as activity at the SEC ground to a halt… […]

Taylor Cavanah, whose background is in physics, once caused a fellow scientist to do a spit take after learning Cavanah runs a software startup focused on pet care. Just as surprising is the tale of how Cavanah and co-founders Ken Tsui and Aaron Bannis… […]

LYMINGTON, United Kingdom–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2019ICPCPlenary?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#2019ICPCPlenarylt;/agt;–The International Cable Protection Committee welcomes your participation at its… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OSA?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#OSAlt;/agt;–OFC 2019 returns to San Diego, California to set the stage as the single-most important annual event in optical communi… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2018. Fourth quarter 2018 results: Revenue of $867 million, an 11% increase compared to $778 million in the fourth qu… […]

It?s no surprise that muscles are important to our metabolism: it?s why building muscle at the gym can accelerate weight loss.?

Scientists are particularly interested in how muscle metabolism affects the heart, arguably the most important muscle in th… […]

The road to potential approval for Voyager Therapeutics? experimental gene therapy for Parkinson?s disease got a bit longer, and more expensive, last year. So this morning the company cut a deal with Neurocrine Biosciences to bankroll the journey?and f… […]

Abide Therapeutics, which is developing medicines to treat neurological diseases, has appointed Kevin Finney as its president and chief operating officer, a new role for the company. The company, which has about 40 employees, is co-located in San Diego… […]