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Wed. Sept. 13, 2017. Associate scientist Alexandra Croft holds a bacteria culture of DNA plasmid copy for her research at Juno Therapeutics.

January 22, 2018 at 6:06 am

Celgene to buy Seattle biotech Juno for $9 billion to get promising cancer treatments

Celgene agreed to buy Juno Therapeutics of Seattle for about $9 billion, one of its largest deals ever, in a bid to expand in the...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos takes the Ice Bucket Challenge at an all-hands meeting for Amazon employees on Friday morning, Aug. 15, 2014, at Key Arena.

July 18, 2015 at 9:00 am

ALS ice bucket challenge donations put to work

South San Francisco biotech company received $1.5 million to help finance testing of an experimental drug to improve lung function in ALS patients.

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March 12, 2015 at 6:35 pm

23andMe turns DNA data into drugs in startup’s latest twist

23andMe, the Google-backed genetic-testing startup that popularized a $99 DNA spit test, will expand from screening people for diseases to inventing new medicine to cure...

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October 21, 2014 at 6:40 pm

AbbVie scraps $52B Shire deal after U.S. tax changes

AbbVie and Shire agreed to terminate what would have been the biggest U.S. tax inversion after AbbVie pulled its support for the deal after proposed...

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October 25, 2013 at 6:13 pm

United to pay record fine for passengers stuck on tarmac

United Continental Holdings was fined $1.1 million by U.S. regulators for stranding passengers inside planes at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the largest penalty since rules...

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