Since Palforzia likely will be the only peanut allergy drug on market for some time, Nestle announces it will pay about $2.6bn to acquire the 80% of Aimmune it doesn’t own.

Private Company Edition: The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine’s half-year report shows the sector raised $10.7bn in the first half of 2020 versus $9.8bn raised in all of 2019. Also, DCVC Bio closed a $350m fund, new incubator opportunities and VC mega-deals for Dyne and Atomwise.

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The French company's hopes of joining Aimmune's Palforzia on the peanut allergy market soon have been shattered after US regulators issued a complete response letter to its Viaskin Peanut patch. A lot now depends on how much work DBV will have to do to satisfy the FDA.