Eclipse buy gives Bionomics cancer stem cell foothold
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The Australian drug development firm Bionomics is spending Aus$10 million ($10.5 million) to acquire a private US venture that will give it both candidate antibody therapeutics against cancer stem cells (CSCs) and a direct presence in the US.
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