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A year after steering cancer drug developer Ignyta into a $1.7 billion sale to Roche, Jonathan Lim is back at it again. Ignyta?s former co-founder and head executive has co-founded another biotech in San Diego, Erasca, which also wants to make new canc… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AmpliPhi Biosciences Successfully Optimizes Manufacturing Process and Scale Up for AB-SA01 Clinical Development […]

Sophiris Bio said Monday that 10 patients who were administered its experimental prostate cancer drug a second time didn?t see any additional benefit. The news sent the San Diego, CA, and Vancouver, BC-based biotech?s stock plunging about 40 percent. S… […]

Will ?CBUS? and ?SI? join ?THOR? and ?RMED?? It?s next week or never (until 2019, that is) for two San Diego companies that have filed documents with securities regulators indicating plans to go public. Agtech company Cibus, which uses ?precision? gene… […]

California?s groundbreaking stem cell agency is running low on time and money. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, or CIRM, is drawing down the last of $3 billion in state bond money granted by voters in 2004 with Proposition 71. Th… […]

California?s groundbreaking stem cell agency is running low on time and money. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, or CIRM, is drawing down the last of $3 billion in state bond money granted by voters in 2004 with Proposition 71. Th… […]

The Allen Institute has donated $125 million to a new division dedicated to understanding the human immune system. Partners include UC San Diego and four other academic centers, the institute said Wednesday. Paul Allen, the late Microsoft cofounder… […]

BRISBANE, Australia & CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lymphedema?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#Lymphedemalt;/agt;–L-Dex Reduces Incidence, Severity & Cost of Breast Cancer-Related Ly… […]

INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apexian Pharmaceuticals is shedding light on the question of how pre-leukemic cells transform into full-blown leukemia. Genetic mutations by themselves are rarely enough to flip the switch. Inflammation also plays a role…. […]

Image authentication startup Truepic said Tuesday it has acquired the intellectual property and software behind San Jose-based Fourandsix Technologies?including Izitru, an image forensics technology licensed earlier this year by DARPA. Fourandsix (pron… […]

Thinking about Internet-connected devices often brings to mind ?smart? home appliances and consumer gadgets. San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud plat… […]

Pfizer is adding 100 jobs to its oncology research center in La Jolla, increasing employment to more than 900. Pfizer is transferring those positions from its site in South San Francisco. The move, announced Monday, was made to simplify the structu… […]

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Labviva, an AI-powered digital marketplace for life science reagents, instrumentation and services announces today its launch to create scientifically […]

A drug effective against the rare and deadly cancer that killed Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has arrived in San Diego. Called Lutathera, it selectively kills tumor cells with a radioactive compound. Clinical trials proved it effective in halting tum… […]

Cancer drug developer Viracta Therapeutics said Tuesday it has raised $10 million as part of a larger financing that is still in progress. The Encinitas company got the money from Chinese drug company Salubris, the lead investor. Salubris and Virac… […]