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Biotech

Seattle biotech startup raises $20M to develop gene therapy technology

Seattle-based biotech startup Immusoft this week closed a $20 million Series B venture capital round that will fuel development of… Read More

Biotech startup Kineta inks cancer deal with Pfizer worth up to $505M

Seattle-based biotech startup Kineta today received a leg-up in its efforts to kill cancerous tumors using the immune system. Kineta announced an… Read More

Cancer drug maker CTI BioPharma lays off 50% of workforce

CTI BioPharma announced Thursday that it will let go of half its employees in order to create more runway to… Read More

Seattle biotech startup raises $3.7M to help the body regenerate tissue

Rodeo Therapeutics, a Seattle-based biotech startup that is creating therapies to help the body regenerate tissue, has landed $3.7 million… Read More

Biotech journalist Luke Timmerman sets his sights on Mount Kilimanjaro and $1M for cancer research

As a journalist, Luke Timmerman has covered biotech for more than 17 years. Now, the Timmerman Report founder is making… Read More

Seattle biotech scores $67.5M to treat migraines and Parkinson’s with drugs delivered deep into the nasal cavity

Seattle-based biotech firm Impel NeuroPharma closed its latest round of funding, bringing in $67.5 million to develop treatments for central… Read More

Seattle Genetics drug rides FDA fast-track to the front lines in fight against rare form of cancer

Seattle Genetics’ star cancer drug Adcetris has won Food and Drug Administration approval for treatment of a fast-growing type of… Read More

Secretive startup Receptor Life Sciences raises $7.5M for therapies based on ‘plant extracts’

Secretive biotechnology company Receptor Life Sciences has raised a funding round totaling just over $7.5 million, according to a filing with… Read More

Can you live to 200? New podcast from Seattle entrepreneur T.A. McCann wants to find out

Life expectancy worldwide has more than doubled since the year 1900. Thanks to remarkable scientific breakthroughs, people today are living… Read More

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Grail raises $300M for cancer detection tools, boosting total investment to $1.5B

News Brief: Grail, a biotech company with early backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says… Read More

New office project in Amazon’s backyard could be welcome news for space-hungry biotech industry

A big new project near Amazon’s Seattle headquarters could provide some relief to biotech and life sciences companies searching the… Read More

Astellas Pharma buying Universal Cells for $102M in Seattle’s third biotech acquisition in a month

Astellas Pharma, a Japanese pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, is acquiring Seattle biotech Universal Cells. Astellas will pay up to $102.5… Read More

Gene therapy startup Immusoft raises $3M, appoints new CEO as it approaches clinical trials

Immusoft is looking to get its gene therapy technology into clinical trials, and the Seattle startup announced Friday that it… Read More

Feeling blue? Biotech startup raises $13M to create ‘natural’ color pigments using algae

We all love a splash of color in our lives, but we seldom realize the technology that goes into the… Read More

Seattle Genetics beats earnings expectations as lead drug Adcetris finds market success

Seattle Genetics, the maker of cancer drug Adcetris, beat analyst expectations by a noticeable margin in its third-quarter earnings, reported… Read More

Seattle Children’s licenses gene-editing therapy to Casebia Therapeutics and will partner on further research

The Seattle Children’s Research Institute announced Wednesday that it has licensed a new gene therapy technology to Cambridge, Mass.,-based biotech company… Read More

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Stephen Hawking, take heart: Revalesio’s ALS drug gets regulatory boost from FDA

Revalesio, a biomedical company headquartered in Tacoma, Wash., says it’s been cleared to benefit from federal incentives for the development… Read More

Fred Hutch licenses new immunotherapy treatment to Mustang Bio, preps clinical trials in Seattle

A new immunotherapy technology developed at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has been licensed to New York-based Mustang Bio,… Read More

Cardiac Insight raises $4.5M to speed up sales and production of wearable ECG heartbeat sensor

Kirkland, Wash.-based startup Cardiac Insight has raised an additional $4.5 million to bolster production and distribution of its lightweight disposable… Read More

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Week in Geek Podcast: Uber’s CEO surprise, a milestone in the fight against cancer, and more

It was an unusually busy week for news in the world of business, technology and science. Join us on this… Read More

New ‘hit-and-run’ gene editing tool temporarily rewrites genetics to treat cancer and HIV

CAR T immunotherapies are all the rage in the medical community, reprogramming a patient’s immune system to fight cancer. For… Read More

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Juno Therapeutics stock jumps 40% as rival Kite Pharma reaches deal to be acquired for $11.9B

Seattle’s Juno Therapeutics, a biotech company developing cutting edge CAR T immunotherapies for cancer, faces a narrow field of competitors. Few… Read More

Why Seattle’s Omeros continues to be dogged by questions over its next big drug

Omeros, one of Seattle’s biggest biotech companies, may have its hands on a lucrative new drug — but questions about… Read More

Omeros looks to raise $70M in stock offering to fuel drug development pipeline

The Omeros Corporation, one of Seattle’s biggest biotech companies, is looking to raise approximately $70 million in a follow-on public… Read More

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Juno Therapeutics posts mixed results, remains optimistic about treatment pipeline

Seattle-based biotech company Juno Therapeutics beat analyst expectations in its second quarter revenue Thursday, reporting $21.3 million in revenue for… Read More

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Cyrus Biotech raises $8M to boost protein modeling toolkit for drug discovery

Cyrus Biotechnology is getting an $8 million infusion for its cloud-based protein modeling and design toolkit, thanks to a Series… Read More

A secret Amazon team is reportedly working on disruptive healthcare tech

Amazon is on a mission to disrupt everything from retail to data storage to entertainment media, so it should come… Read More

Regenerative medicine startup Rodeo Therapeutics raises $5.9M for drugs to regenerate tissue

If you could write a medical wish-list of futuristic technologies, regenerating tissue would be pretty high up there. It could… Read More

Seattle startup raises $12M to ‘rewrite the software of life’ (with a little help from the technology behind beer)

Proteins are incredibly important, but incredibly complicated, molecules. They control 98 percent of all biological functions and are used in industries… Read More

New breed of microbrew: UW chemists use 3-D printing to blaze a trail for better beer

Long before you take that first sip of an ice-cold beer, the ingredients that went into that beverage had to… Read More

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