Roche to acquire 89bio, and its phase 3 FGF21 analog for the therapy of moderate to severe MASH for US $3.5 billion
On Sept. 17, 2025, Roche announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire 89bio,…
GSK to invest $30 billion in R&D and Manufacturing in the U.S. over next 5 years
On Sept. 17, 2025, GSK announced plans to invest $30 billion across the United States in research and…
Merck to scrap London drug research centre
On Sept. 10, 2025, Merck announced it was scrapping research operations in London, citing the UK’s challenging business…
Biological ‘moonshot’ accelerates efforts to genetically map life on earth
On Sept. 4, 2025, a global collaboration that includes experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute announced mapping out…
UK Biobank celebrates completion of world’s largest human imaging study with landmark events
On Aug. 4, 2025, UK Biobank announced it had reached a historic milestone – completing 100,000 whole-body imaging…
Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease history
On Jul. 9, 2025, a research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and…
Ancient organisms locked toxic poison away in their cells to survive dangerous environmental changes, study finds
On Jul. 1, 2025, an international team of researchers led by by the Université de Poitiers and Cardiff…
Researchers take first steps to creating synthetic human genomes
On Jun. 26, 2025, a team of UK-based scientists announced they are developing technology to create the first…
‘Artificial pancreas’ transforming the lives of thousands of children and young people with type 1 diabetes
On Jun. 16, 2025, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) announced that the recommendation in…
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UK Nice leads the way in approving breakthrough treatment for multiple myeloma
On Jun. 13, 2025, people in England will become the first in the world to receive belantamab mafodotin…
UK Reports First detection of West Nile virus in mosquitoes
On May 21, 2025, A research programme by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Animal and Plant…
Genetic Factors May Influence Liver Fat Even in Healthy Weight People
On May 15, 2025, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, announced…
Microbe that infests hospitals can digest medical-grade plastic ― a first
On May 8, 2025, A strain of bacterium that often causes infections in hospital can break down plastic,…
Childhood exposure to bacterial toxin may be triggering colorectal cancer epidemic among the young
On Apr. 23, 2025, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of California San Diego and their collaborators…
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Cartoon Illustrating “The NIH and U.S. Healthcare in Crisis” Published
On Apr. 21, 2025, LifeScienceHistory.com published the cartoon: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Healthcare in…
Moderna’s UK Manufacturing Facility Received Manufacturing License from the MHRA
On Apr. 15, 2025, Moderna announced that its manufacturing facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire, the Moderna Innovation and Technology…
Thousands of people could benefit from new twice-a-day tablet for advanced breast cancer
On Apr. 11, 2025, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended capivasertib (also called…
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UK Report highlights Two Dozen pathogens of greatest risk to public health
On Mar. 25. 2025, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published its view on the pathogen families that…
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Rice labs tapped for brain research by UK funding agency with multimillion-dollar awards
On Jan. 21, 2025, Rice University announced that four research groups are part of an inaugural cohort of…
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Study pinpoints depression genes across ethnicities
On Jan. 14, 2025, an international research team led by the University of Edinburgh reported new genetic risk…
Tumour DNA in the blood can predict lung cancer outcome
On Jan. 13, 2025, scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, UCLH and Personalis announced they have found…
Genetic cause for main type of hearing loss in children with Down syndrome identified
On Jan. 7, 2025, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, MRC Harwell Institute and UCL Queen Square Institute…
First new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years
On Nov. 28, 2024, scientists from King’s College London reported that an injection given during some asthma and…
AI can predict study results better than human experts
On Nov. 27, 2024, a study led by the University College London reported that large language models, a…
Vaccine doses allocated to African countries hardest hit by mpox surge
On Nov. 9, 2024, the World Health Organization announced that three additional countries had confirmed travel-related cases of…
H5N1 and H5N5 Avian influenza confirmed in poultry in England
On Nov. 6, 2024, The United Kingdom’s Chief Veterinary Officers was urging all bird keepers to follow scrupulous…
Restricting sugar before birth and in early childhood greatly reduces risk of chronic disease later in life
On Nov. 1, 2024, researchers reported results from a study that show a low-sugar diet during pregnancy and…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design”; Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”
On Oct. 9, 2024, the Nobel Foundation awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: one half to David Baker,…
GSK invests up to $800 million in Pennsylvania site
On Oct. 24, 2024, GSK announced an $800 million investment that will bring state-of-the-art drug substance manufacturing and…
first drug approved for early Alzheimer’s disease in the UK
On Aug. 22, 2024, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced it had licensed the immunotherapy…