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FDA accepts Nanoscope MOGENRY BLA for gene-agnostic treatment of severe retinitis pigmentosa

The FDA has accepted Nanoscope Therapeutics’ BLA for MOGENRY, an optogenetic therapy designed to restore useful vision in severe retinitis pigmentosa regardless of the underlying mutation.

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Bristol Myers Squibb’s arlo-cel clears pivotal myeloma endpoints after BCMA therapy

Arlocabtagene autoleucel met response and complete-response endpoints in patients already exposed to immunomodulators, proteasome inhibitors, anti-CD38 treatment and BCMA therapy, positioning GPRC5D as a possible next CAR T target after increasingly crowded myeloma treatment sequences.

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Pharvaris cuts HAE attacks 83% with oral deucrictibant XR. Can it challenge injections?

Once-daily deucrictibant XR reduced hereditary angioedema attacks by 83% across the Phase 3 CHAPTER-3 population, giving Pharvaris a potential oral prophylaxis product alongside its separately developed immediate-release rescue formulation.

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Roivant’s mosliciguat cuts pulmonary vascular resistance 56%. Can Phase 3 repeat it?

Pulmovant’s mosliciguat produced unusually large improvements across pulmonary vascular resistance, exercise capacity and cardiac strain in PH-ILD, giving Roivant a strong Phase 2 hand as the much larger PHrontier study tests whether those effects hold.

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Ionis wins first FDA approval for Alexander disease. Can Zanvastro make an ultra-rare launch work?

Zanvastro finally gives Alexander disease a targeted therapy. Its next challenge is finding patients and funding a $1.14 million annual regimen.

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AstraZeneca’s Etcamah wins FDA approval after cutting progression risk 56%. What changes for breast cancer care?

Etcamah can be started before visible progression when ESR1 resistance emerges. The bigger change may be how often breast cancer is tested.

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FDA allows trial of controlled low-dose lenalidomide with Pfizer’s Elrexfio in multiple myeloma

An investigator-led U.S. trial will combine elranatamab with Starton Therapeutics’ investigational controlled low-dose lenalidomide in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

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CorrectSequence base editing keeps sickle cell patient crisis-free for 18 months

CorrectSequence’s transformer base-editing platform produced sustained fetal hemoglobin above 60% and freedom from vaso-occlusive crises in a Nigerian sickle cell patient, while three additional thalassemia patients became transfusion independent.

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Rznomics improves 8 kb circular RNA production as manufacturing race for next-gen RNA drugs accelerates

Rznomics researchers report an optimized self-targeting and splicing system that doubled circularization efficiency versus conventional PIE for a roughly 7.8 kb Factor VIII RNA payload.

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636-patient angiogenesis review finds no cancer signal as Isomab prepares ISM-001 for first human study

Isomab’s review of 11 historical therapeutic-angiogenesis studies found similar malignancy rates with pro-angiogenic treatment and placebo, supporting the safety rationale for preclinical ISM-001 without proving the new antibody is safe.

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