[Updated, 02/15/19, 8:50 CT] After a whirlwind courtship and brief engagement, Amazon has broken off its plans to establish another headquarters in New York’s Long Island City neighborhood.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rationalized its Valentine’s Day breakup with the... Read more »
Longtime biopharmaceutical executive Tachi Yamada helped keep the work of gene therapy pioneer James Wilson alive 20 years ago when Wilson was mired in controversy and the emerging field was in its darkest days.
Now that gene therapy has come of... Read more »
Cibus on Thursday said it is holding off on the initial public offering that was expected to happen this week.
“We elected to postpone our offering given current market and technical conditions,” said co-founder and CEO Peter Beetham in a press... Read more »
Cancer immunotherapy developer TCR² Therapeutics has raised $75 million in an IPO, which it will use for clinical trials to test a type of immunotherapy intended to treat a wider range of cancers than current cell therapies.
Late Wednesday, TCR² priced... Read more »
By now, many consumers know that uploading a photo, video, or other file to “the cloud” on a service like Google or Facebook often means storing it in a data center. But the computer servers inside data centers don’t just store... Read more »
[Updated 9:20 p.m., see below.] DBV Technologies is jumping back into the race to bring an FDA-approved peanut allergy treatment to the market, but it might not be enough to beat its main rival.
The France-based company says it... Read more »
Mission Edge, a nonprofit organization backed by the San Diego Foundation and three corporations, has chosen 10 companies and organizations to participate in a 12-week program intended to improve each entity’s financial performance, and thereby long-term sustainability.
Called the Social Enterprise... Read more »
[Updated 2:07 p.m. See below.] Johnson & Johnson is acquiring medical robotics developer Auris Health for $3.4 billion in cash, a deal that builds on the company’s stated plans to become a player in “digital surgery.”
Privately held Auris... Read more »
TuSimple has pulled in $95 million more in venture funding to advance its development of a commercial autonomous fleet of trucks.
The new Series D round of financing announced Wednesday boosts the San Diego-based company’s valuation to land it on the... Read more »