Los Osos biotech firm announces four-company merger

Four privately held biotech firms across the U.S. announced Oct. 16 that they had merged under Los Osos name Discovery Life Sciences. The deal was facilitated through an investment by Chicago-based Water Street Healthcare Partners. The merger included the Central Coast firm, Conversant Bio, Folio Bio and Phylogeny, which have operations in Columbus, Ohio and Read More →
Amgen buys $66 million stake in genetics device company

Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen broadened its reach into genetics research Oct. 18 with a $66 million investment in handheld DNA sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Genetics has been a research focus for Amgen since its 2012 acquisition of deCODE, particularly in the area of Alzheimer’s therapies. The news follows closely the release by Oxford Read More →

Amgen launches Humira biosimilar in Europe

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Market plunge hits tri-county stocks hard

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Amgen’s Blincyto gets approval in Japan

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