U.S. investors, Big Pharma race to find new medicines in China

U.S. investors, Big Pharma race to find new medicines in China

A little-known biotech company stunned the biopharmaceutical industry last spring when it declared an “unprecedented” achievement: its experimental cancer drug looked more effective than Merck‘s Keytruda in a clinical trial. The company, Summit Therapeutics, licensed the drug from Chinese company Akeso Inc.  In October, a group of life science investors …

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67 dead after American Airlines plane collides with Army helicopter

67 dead after American Airlines plane collides with Army helicopter

Search and rescue teams work near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., Jan. 30, 2025.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters There were no survivors after …

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