Editas regains rights to ocular programs first partnered with Allergan in 2017. Newly public F-star will focus on bispecific antibodies for cancer, TriSalus acquires oncology candidate from Dynavax.

The certainty that any COVID-19 vaccine will see demand outstrip supply could be an inflection point for the once-quiet field of novel vaccine adjuvant research, which promises to enhance immune response and lower the vaccine dose required.

Current embolic therapies for cancer have one major drawback. When they're introduced into a vessel through a catheter, reflux often occurs along the catheter, sending the medication backward into another vessel and into non-targeted tissue. The safety of these could greatly improve with Surefire Medical's new embolic therapy catheter. Surefire's initial therapeutic target is liver cancer.