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Peruse breaking life science news from today and last week, as well as discoveries, events, and news from last year, and beyond.

Merck Breaks Ground on $1 Billion Biologics Center in Wilmington, Delaware

On Apr. 29, 2025, Merck announced the start of construction for a $1 billion, 470,000 square-foot state-of-the-art biologics center of excellence in Wilmington, Delaware. The Merck Wilmington Biotech facility will comprise laboratory, manufacturing and warehouse capabilities to enable the launch…

Merck to Acquire SpringWorks Therapeutics for $3.9 Billion

On Apr. 28, 2025, Merck and SpringWorks Therapeutics announced the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Merck to acquire SpringWorks. The purchase price of $47 per share in cash represents an equity value of approximately $3.9 billion, or…

Uganda declares end of Ebola outbreak

On Apr. 26, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that Uganda has declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak, less than three months after the virus was confirmed in the capital Kampala. The Ebola strain that has been…

Texas Reports Forty-Nine New measles Cases in Ogoing outbreak

On Apr. 25, 2025, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported that 646 cases of measles have been confirmed in the outbreak since late January, compared with 597 cases reported April 18, forty-nine more than the previous week….

Amgen to expand Ohio biotech manufacturing plant

On Apr. 25, 2025, Amgen announced a $900 million expansion of its Ohio biotech manufacturing facility in New Albany, becoming the latest in a string of drug makers pledging to increase U.S. capacity amid Trump administration threats of potential import…

UW Medicine offers second drug for early Alzheimer’s

On Apr. 25, 2025, University of Washington announced that the Memory & Brain Wellness Center at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has started treating patients with donanemab, an Alzheimer’s drug. The drug is similar to lecanemab, which the center began…

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Defending Science and Reason

Defending Science and Reason requires suffering the slings and arrows from the army of doubters who embrace myths,…

Explore the invisible life science world around you – science at the nanoscale, one-billionth of a meter or about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair.

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Earth is a Rock, Let the DNA Mold Me” is a rewritten 1974 hit rock n’ roll hit celebrating life science and interrelated sciences from astronomy, geology, and genomics to computing, medicine, and nanotechnology.

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