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Medical Innovation News 27 June 2025 - 5 November 2025

Roche’s $3.5B Bet on 89bio (ETNB) – Stock Soars to New Highs as NASH Breakthrough Looms

Roche’s $3.5B Bet on 89bio (ETNB) – Stock Soars to New Highs as NASH Breakthrough Looms

Recent Developments and News (Nov 2025) 89bio has dominated biotech headlines in late 2025 due to Roche’s takeover move. On October 30, 2025, Roche announced it had successfully completed a tender offer for 89bio at $14.50/share + a $6.00 CVR, and would immediately merge 89bio into its subsidiary roche.com investing.com. By acquiring over 60% of shares in the tender (and securing another ~27% via guaranteed delivery), Roche was able to execute a short-form merger without a shareholder vote investing.com investing.com. All remaining ETNB shares will convert into the same $14.50 + CVR deal, and 89bio’s stock will cease trading on Nasdaq investing.com
5 November 2025
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Femasys (FEMY) Skyrockets on Breakthrough Birth Control Trial News – Is This Women’s Health Innovator a Game-Changer?

Femasys (FEMY) Skyrockets on Breakthrough Birth Control Trial News – Is This Women’s Health Innovator a Game-Changer?

Company Overview – Innovating in Women’s Health Femasys Inc. is a Georgia-based medical device and biotherapeutics company specializing in women’s reproductive health solutions. Founded and led by CEO Kathy Lee-Sepsick (a female inventor-entrepreneur), Femasys aims to “transform women’s healthcare” by addressing long-neglected needs with non-surgical, in-office technologies femasys.com gurufocus.com. The company’s mission is to provide women with minimally invasive, office-based alternatives that improve patient care and reduce costs, in areas ranging from infertility to contraception and cancer diagnostics femasys.com gurufocus.com. Safety and accessibility are emphasized – Femasys notes that advances in female reproductive health are “long overdue,” and its products
3 November 2025
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Iovance Biotherapeutics (IOVA): TIL Cancer Breakthrough or Biotech Bust?

Iovance Biotherapeutics (IOVA): TIL Cancer Breakthrough or Biotech Bust?

Company Overview: Pioneering TIL Therapy in Oncology Iovance Biotherapeutics is focused on developing tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapies – a novel form of immunotherapy where a patient’s own T cells, harvested from their tumor, are expanded and activated in a lab, then reinfused to attack cancer. This approach, originally pioneered by NCI’s Dr. Steven Rosenberg in the 1980s, finally reached fruition when Iovance’s lifileucel (brand name Amtagvi) earned FDA approval in 2024 as the first-ever TIL therapy (and the first cellular therapy for any solid tumor) cancer.gov. Lifileucel is indicated for unresectable or metastatic melanoma that has progressed after standard immunotherapies
3 November 2025
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Off-the-Shelf CAR-T Triumph: Caribou’s Breakthrough Results Spark Stock Surge

Off-the-Shelf CAR-T Triumph: Caribou’s Breakthrough Results Spark Stock Surge

Caribou’s Game-Changing CAR-T Results Caribou Biosciences – a clinical-stage biotech focusing on genome-edited cell therapies – stunned the biotech world with new data on November 3, 2025, showcasing that its off-the-shelf CAR-T cell treatments can achieve remission rates on par with personalized CAR-T therapies statnews.com. In an early-morning webcast, Caribou revealed Phase 1 trial outcomes from two programs: vispa-cel for B-cell lymphoma and CB-011 for multiple myeloma tipranks.com. The headline: patients with aggressive blood cancers, who had exhausted other options, responded remarkably well to these donor-derived CAR-T infusions. Caribou reported multiple complete and durable remissions in both trials, exceeding what
3 November 2025
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Evaxion (NASDAQ:EVAX) Stock Rockets After AI-Powered Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough

Evaxion (NASDAQ:EVAX) Stock Rockets After AI-Powered Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough

Evaxion’s stock jump in mid-October comes as the company lines up important clinical updates and validates its AI-driven vaccine technology. On Oct 13, Evaxion announced it will present two-year data from its Phase 2 trial of EVX-01 (a personalized cancer vaccine for advanced melanoma) at the ESMO Congress in Berlin globenewswire.com. The October presentation (oral session Oct 17, webinar Oct 22) will cover efficacy, immunogenicity, safety, best overall response, and T‑cell response durability of EVX-01 plus Merck’s KEYTRUDA® globenewswire.com. Earlier one-year interim results showed a 69% overall response rate and tumor reduction in 15 of 16 patients globenewswire.com, highlighting the vaccine’s promise. Evaxion’s
15 October 2025
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Novo Nordisk’s $5.2 Billion Bet to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease – Game-Changer or Big Gamble?

Novo Nordisk’s $5.2 Billion Bet to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease – Game-Changer or Big Gamble?

Forecast: Experts believe that within the next 2–3 years, we’ll know if Novo’s gamble pays off. Phase 3 readouts for efruxifermin are anticipated in 2026, and Novo hopes to launch the drug by late this decade if approved reuters.com. By then, the landscape may include other new NASH therapies (possibly Lilly’s or Madrigal’s), but Novo’s combination strategy could set it apart. Wolfe Research analyst Andy Chen recently said the field has reached a “meaningful tipping point” as the first therapies emerge, predicting the leading NASH drug could see $5 billion+ in annual sales under broad use investing.com. Novo’s own management clearly shares that optimism – they
9 October 2025
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From “Smart” Healing Gel to Alpha Centauri’s New Planet: Science Breakthroughs You Can’t Miss (Aug 8–9, 2025)

From “Smart” Healing Gel to Alpha Centauri’s New Planet: Science Breakthroughs You Can’t Miss (Aug 8–9, 2025)

In preclinical tests on diabetic mice, a single application of a hydrogel-based “smart” wound dressing achieved 90% wound closure in 12 days by silencing thrombospondin-1 with microRNA-loaded extracellular vesicles. The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI directly imaged a gas-giant planet roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 2 AU, about 4 light-years from Earth. If confirmed, this would be the closest exoplanet ever directly imaged to Earth. As of August 7, 2025, NOAA forecast a 50% above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season with 13–18 named storms and 5–9 hurricanes by November. France’s southern wildfires became the largest
9 August 2025
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Top Biotechnology and Health Tech Trends in 2025: Mid-Year Update and Forecast (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Top Biotechnology and Health Tech Trends in 2025: Mid-Year Update and Forecast (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Late 2024, the first FDA-approved CRISPR-based therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy) reached patients, with Vertex reporting $2 million in revenue from this sickle-cell gene-editing therapy in Q3 2024. Prime Medicine’s PM359 autologous CRISPR prime-edited cell therapy for chronic granulomatous disease began a Phase I/II study in 2024, with initial first-in-human data expected in late 2025. Wave Life Sciences’ RNA base-editing drug WVE-006 showed proof-of-mechanism in humans in 2024, and multi-dose trial data are anticipated in 2025. In April 2025, the FDA approved Abeona Therapeutics’ Zevaskyn, the first cell-based gene therapy for the rare skin disorder RDEB, with launch planned in Q3
27 June 2025
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