Plus deals involving Astellas/Menarini, Maruho/Fortress Biotech, Zenas/Bristol Myers Squibb, Huadong Medicine/MC2 and more.

Companies making blood-based cancer screening tests face a number of barriers to full market entry but getting a foothold of any kind can be the start of a path towards greater ultimate uptake.

The outcome of any clinical study is uncertain but the choice of active comparator and sometimes even the placebo arm can magnify unpredictability. Emgality’s recent head-to-head failure in migraine is just the latest in a long list of casualties.

This week, the FDA issued a cybersecurity threat to gene sequencing platforms from Illumina and Amazon announced it was getting out of the fitness wearables business, while researchers announced a breakthrough in Parkinson's diagnostics.