Denali Therapeutics

The World News Monitor | April 08, 2020

• 3 Blue-Chip Biotech Stocks Hitting New Highs. A basket of biotech stocks have surged to new highs in recent weeks, lifting the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund ETF (IBB) within 15 points of 2019 resistance.The stock posted an all-time high at $128 in Tuesday’s session, lifting above 2019 resistance at $122. Price action into the second half of 2019 carved a long series of lower highs and lower lows, dropping the stock to a six-year low....

Sana Biotechnology | June 23, 2020

A startup company developing in vivo and ex vivo cell therapies has raised a significant chunk of funding for its initial financing from life science and technology venture capital as well as pension plans and others.Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology said Tuesday that it had raised more than $700 million from a wide range of investors, including ARCH Venture Partners, Flagship Pioneering, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Baillie Gifford, F-Prime Capital, the Alaska Permanent Fund, ...

Medical

MemVerge | March 21, 2022

MemVerge™, the pioneers of Big Memory software, today announced that TGen, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, an affiliate of City of Hope, has selected MemVerge Memory Machine Big Memory virtualization software to accelerate time to discovery for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a disease which affects 100,000 people annually in the U.S. Using MemVerge technology, TGen is able to dramatically speed analytical processing by nearly 36% for single-cell RNA sequencing. ...

Cell and Gene Therapy

Specific Biologics Inc. | December 08, 2021

Specific Biologics Inc. an early-stage biotechnology company developing novel gene editing technologies, announced that it will receive more than US$527,000 to support the preclinical development of its Dualase™ gene editing platform to target a set of cystic fibrosis -causing nonsense mutations where patients currently have fewer therapeutic options available. "Incredible advancements in the treatment of cystic fibrosis have been made since the id...