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Fifty Patients, No Registry: MVA Research Meets in London

Fifty Patients, No Registry: MVA Research Meets in London

Mosaic variegated aneuploidy (MVA) is thought to affect fewer than 50 people worldwide. At that scale, ultra-rare disease research runs into a problem that funding alone does not solve. There is no cohort large enough to randomise. There is often no natural history...

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Semaglutide Patent Expiry: What Generics Did to Prices

Semaglutide Patent Expiry: What Generics Did to Prices

The semaglutide patent expiry of March 2026 has now had six months to work. The evidence is uneven. In India, prices fell by up to 70% within weeks. In Canada, generic pens reached pharmacies in May. In China, not one generic has been approved. Readers in the United...

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Weekly News Roundup | 11 May 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 11 May 2026

Life science news 11 May 2026: M&A momentum, artificial intelligence diagnostics and a record week for deal-making define an active seven days for the global life science industry. The week of 4 to 10 May 2026 produced a dense cluster of major acquisitions, a...

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Orforglipron Approved: Inside the Oral GLP-1 Race

Orforglipron Approved: Inside the Oral GLP-1 Race

The obesity treatment landscape shifted decisively on 1 April 2026, when the US Food and Drug Administration approved Foundayo (orforglipron), an oral once-daily glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist developed by Eli Lilly. The decision marks the arrival of...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 8 May 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 8 May 2026

Cytokinetics’ aficamten meets dual primary endpoints in the pivotal Phase 3 ACACIA-HCM trial for non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Axsome Therapeutics secures FDA approval of AUVELITY as the first non-antipsychotic treatment for Alzheimer’s disease...

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GSK Secures $1bn Rights to SiranBio siRNA Therapy

GSK Secures $1bn Rights to SiranBio siRNA Therapy

GSK has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Chinese biotech Suzhou Siran Biotechnology (SiranBio), securing global rights to the company's early-stage small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapy, SA030, in a deal worth up to $1.005 billion in potential...

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Paediatric Trials: Why Children Remain Therapeutic Orphans

Paediatric Trials: Why Children Remain Therapeutic Orphans

Children have long been described as therapeutic orphans. It is a term first used by the American paediatrician Harry Shirkey of the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, at a 1963 conference and formally published in 1968. Despite more than five decades of...

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Global Nursing Shortage: The Life Sciences Risk

Global Nursing Shortage: The Life Sciences Risk

For the life sciences sector, the global nursing shortage is not a background public health concern. It is a clinical trial staffing problem, a pharmaceutical market access problem, and a real-world evidence problem. The WHO's 2025 State of the World's Nursing report...

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Why Clinical Trial Diversity Remains a Problem

Why Clinical Trial Diversity Remains a Problem

For decades, clinical trials have failed to adequately represent the patients who will ultimately use the medicines and treatments being tested. Gaps in enrolment across race, ethnicity, sex, age, and socioeconomic background have created an incomplete evidence base,...

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Weekly News Roundup | 11 May 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 11 May 2026

Life science news 11 May 2026: M&A momentum, artificial intelligence diagnostics and a record week for deal-making define an active seven days for the global life science industry. The week of 4 to 10 May 2026 produced a dense cluster of major acquisitions, a...

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Orforglipron Approved: Inside the Oral GLP-1 Race

Orforglipron Approved: Inside the Oral GLP-1 Race

The obesity treatment landscape shifted decisively on 1 April 2026, when the US Food and Drug Administration approved Foundayo (orforglipron), an oral once-daily glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist developed by Eli Lilly. The decision marks the arrival of...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 8 May 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 8 May 2026

Cytokinetics’ aficamten meets dual primary endpoints in the pivotal Phase 3 ACACIA-HCM trial for non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Axsome Therapeutics secures FDA approval of AUVELITY as the first non-antipsychotic treatment for Alzheimer’s disease...

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GSK Secures $1bn Rights to SiranBio siRNA Therapy

GSK Secures $1bn Rights to SiranBio siRNA Therapy

GSK has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Chinese biotech Suzhou Siran Biotechnology (SiranBio), securing global rights to the company's early-stage small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapy, SA030, in a deal worth up to $1.005 billion in potential...

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Paediatric Trials: Why Children Remain Therapeutic Orphans

Paediatric Trials: Why Children Remain Therapeutic Orphans

Children have long been described as therapeutic orphans. It is a term first used by the American paediatrician Harry Shirkey of the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, at a 1963 conference and formally published in 1968. Despite more than five decades of...

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Global Nursing Shortage: The Life Sciences Risk

Global Nursing Shortage: The Life Sciences Risk

For the life sciences sector, the global nursing shortage is not a background public health concern. It is a clinical trial staffing problem, a pharmaceutical market access problem, and a real-world evidence problem. The WHO's 2025 State of the World's Nursing report...

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Why Clinical Trial Diversity Remains a Problem

Why Clinical Trial Diversity Remains a Problem

For decades, clinical trials have failed to adequately represent the patients who will ultimately use the medicines and treatments being tested. Gaps in enrolment across race, ethnicity, sex, age, and socioeconomic background have created an incomplete evidence base,...

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Life Science Publishing: Our First Year, and Where You Fit In

Almost a year ago, Life Science Daily News published its first articles with a simple belief. Specialist science deserves a specialist stage. Since then, that belief has grown into a global readership and an active community of contributors. This is the story of our...
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FDA Drug Approval Decisions

Last updated 28 October 2026. Covering target action dates from October 2026 to February 2027. October changed how this tracker has to be read. Six FDA drug approval decisions landed in the month, and four arrived ahead of target. One cleared roughly 12 weeks early,...
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CRISPR Gene Editing 2026: Rare Diseases, Cancer and Autoimmune

CRISPR gene editing in 2026 is no longer a technology to watch. It is a technology delivering results. Across three distinct disease areas, rare inherited conditions, haematologic and solid cancers, and autoimmune disease, clinical programmes are accumulating...
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The GLP-1 Drug Pipeline: Every Candidate to Watch in 2026

The GLP-1 drug pipeline has become one of the most consequential and closely watched in modern pharmaceutical history. In 2026, the class of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists is no longer defined solely by Ozempic and Wegovy. A new generation of oral tablets,...
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Anti-Ro52 vs Anti-Ro60: Advancing Sjögren’s Disease Diagnosis

Autoantibody testing is a central part of autoimmune disease diagnosis, including Sjögren’s disease (SjD). The American College of Rheumatology and European Alliance of Associations of Rheumatology (ACR/EULAR) classification criteria for SjD incorporate ocular and...

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Weekly News Roundup | 4 May 2026

Weekly News Roundup | 4 May 2026

Life science news 4 May 2026: Eli Lilly's record $19.8 billion quarterly earnings, the FDA's real-time clinical trial revolution and a landmark week for UK regulatory reform define a momentous seven days for global life science. Eli Lilly reported worldwide revenue of...

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The Gap Between Precision Medicine and Clinical Reality

The Gap Between Precision Medicine and Clinical Reality

Precision medicine is no longer a futuristic concept. Genomic panels, pharmacogenomic testing, advanced biomarker analysis, and individualized risk stratification tools are all available today. Yet for the vast majority of patients walking into a primary care office,...

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Clinical Trials Roundup | 1 May 2026

Clinical Trials Roundup | 1 May 2026

Etavopivat delivers Phase 3 success in sickle cell disease, satralizumab becomes the first positive Phase 3 result in MOGAD, AstraZeneca completes its triple-positive COPD biologic programme, and a busy week for paediatric medicine brings new approvals and data in...

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Longevity Biotech: Separating the Science from the Hype

Longevity Biotech: Separating the Science from the Hype

The Billion-Dollar Race to Slow Ageing Billions of dollars are pouring into the idea that ageing is a disease we can treat. The longevity biotech sector attracted $8.49 billion in private investment across 325 deals in 2024, according to Longevity.Technology's Annual...

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Report Finds Seven in Ten Leaders Bullied by Their Teams

Report Finds Seven in Ten Leaders Bullied by Their Teams

Healthcare organisations invest significantly in psychosocial risk frameworks, governance structures and leadership development. Yet a new international study highlights a type of organisational risk that most of those frameworks are not designed to detect. It is a...

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Trump FDA Drug Approvals: Global Impact

Trump FDA Drug Approvals: Global Impact

Trump FDA Drug Approvals: How US Regulatory Upheaval Is Reshaping the Global Pharmaceutical Industry The United States Food and Drug Administration has long been regarded as the gold standard of drug regulation. When a medicine receives FDA approval, it carries a...

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Most Supplement Companies Skip the RCT

Most Supplement Companies Skip the RCT

Most Supplement Companies Skip the RCT. Here’s Why the Few That Don’t Often Get It Wrong The industry’s uncomfortable truth The global dietary supplement market is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.[1] Brands make claims about energy, cognition, immunity, and...

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CAR-T Therapy Explained: A Plain-English Guide

CAR-T therapy is one of the most discussed cancer treatments of the past decade, and one of the most widely misunderstood. The name is an acronym. The science involves genetic engineering. The price runs to hundreds of thousands of pounds per patient. This guide...

Beyond Detection: What Our Microplastics Study Means for Clinical Practice

For years, the conversation around microplastics centered on a simple question: Are they present in the human body? The answer is now increasingly clear. Microplastics have been detected in human blood, placentas, lungs, liver tissue, arterial plaque, reproductive...

Weekly News Roundup | 17 August 2026

Life science news 17 August 2026: Donald Trump signs an executive order seeking to narrow the US childhood vaccine schedule, the MHRA makes the UK the first country in Europe to authorise Eli Lilly’s orforglipron tablet, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals pays $820 million...

Crohn’s, Colitis and Conception: Building a Family with IBD

When treating individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), either Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, I’m often asked: "Will this stop me having children?". Given that IBD affects around 180,000 Australians and is typically first diagnosed between the ages of...

LSD Anxiety Data: Definium Hits All Phase 3 Endpoints

Definium Therapeutics has reported positive results from its first Phase 3 LSD anxiety trial. The data push a psychedelic medicine closer to a regulatory filing in a condition that has not seen a new drug approval since 2007. The company said on 12 August that Voyage...

Panthera Opens New Clinical Research Clinic at Keele University

13 August 2026 - Panthera has opened its latest clinical trial clinic at Keele University, further strengthening its growing clinical research network across the UK and Europe. Panthera, which is the UK's largest independent Site Management Organisation (SMO),...

Clinical Trials Roundup | 14 Aug 2026

Tenax Therapeutics' TNX-103 misses its primary endpoint in the Phase 3 LEVEL trial in pulmonary hypertension due to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, AbCellera's ABCL635 meets both primary efficacy endpoints in a Phase 2 trial in menopausal vasomotor...

From Laboratory to Market: Risk Planning for Life Science Companies

The UK life sciences sector is entering an important phase of growth. The Government's Life Sciences Sector Plan sets an ambition for the UK to become the leading life sciences economy in Europe by 2030 and the third globally by 2035. It also reports that the sector...

Biopharma VC Funding in H1 2026: Megarounds Mask an Early-Stage Squeeze

Biopharma VC funding delivered its strongest opening half in four years. Yet the headline figure hides a widening split. Mature, de-risked companies are attracting capital, while the seed-stage startups that supply the sector’s long-term pipeline are not. Data...

Organ Digital Twins: Inside Imperial College London’s Research

Organ digital twins have moved from mathematical curiosity to funded national priority. Imperial College London now sits close to the centre of that shift. Researchers there have built more than 3,800 anatomically accurate virtual hearts. They have also begun an NHS...

Glass Slides to AI: Digital Pathology Can Transform Cancer Care in the NHS

Every year, millions of pathology slides are produced in the UK, most still examined manually under a microscope. This century-old process, though reliable, is no longer fit for purpose. Pathology departments face mounting workforce pressures, with 78% pathologists...

Kidney Care’s $2.5 Billion Timing Problem

Capital is flowing to the wrong point on the disease timeline Kidney care has attracted more than $2.5 billion in investment capital over the past five years. The amount tells a clear story. Unfortunately, it may be the wrong one. Investment has mostly concentrated on...

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