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Big pharma companies team up to increase diversity in genome data

By Jonathan Smith

The pharma giants AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer and Merck have been revealed as founding members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD), a project aiming to accelerate drug development by collecting genomic data from underrepresented populations.

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Roche licenses drug to target cancer DNA damage response

By Jonathan Smith

Roche has entered a licensing and collaboration deal with the U.S. company KSQ Therapeutics to co-develop KSQ’s lead cancer drug, which is designed to sabotage the DNA repair mechanisms of cancer cells.

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