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Dec 6 (Reuters) – Regeneron said on Saturday its experimental cancer combination therapy was effective and showed disappearance of the disease in previously untreated patients with a type of blood cancer in the first part of a late-stage trial.The trial, which enrolled 22 patients, studied safety and preliminary efficacy of the company’s therapy, odronextamab, in combination with chemotherapy in patients with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma or DLBCL.Odronextamab belongs to a class of treatments called bispecific antibodies that are designed to attach to a cancer cell and an immune cell, bringing them together so that the body’s immune system can kill…
Nardiz Cooke was alarmed when she felt a lump in her right breast in late 2018. Her OB-GYN wasn’t: Cooke was 38 and had no family history of cancer. Cooke’s doctor diagnosed her with fibrosis, a common condition that causes tissue to feel lumpy. Cooke was reassured, but almost two years later, new symptoms began. She had splitting headaches. She said she was “vomiting out of the blue.” Her ears rang. She had double vision and sometimes lost her sight. Once, it took 40 minutes for her vision to return.But no matter how many doctors Cooke saw, everything came back…
Dec 6 (Reuters) – Vertex Pharmaceuticals said on Saturday its gene therapy helped children aged between 5 and 11 years with sickle cell disease to be free of painful events and allowed those with another blood disorder that requires frequent blood transfusions to be transfusion-free for at least 12 consecutive months.This supports the potential for the therapy to treat the blood disorders in a younger patient population and will help Vertex expand the use of Casgevy, which is currently approved for patients 12 years and older with sickle cell disease or transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).”These results — the first clinical…
Family offices in the US managed $3.1 trillion worth of assets last year, according to a Deloitte report. That’s more than the market caps of Meta and Tesla, combined.But many family offices manage all of those assets using relatively basic software, such as Excel and QuickBooks, as well as borderline prehistoric technologies like fax machines.The majority — 72% — of family offices said their investment in the technology needed to run their businesses is either insufficient, nonexistent, or only moderately sufficient, according to the Deloitte report.Asseta AI, founded in 2023, is an accounting platform designed to address this. It works with…
I bring tidings of fantastic news for “Elf on the Shelf” parents. (Kids: stop reading this right now. Get off the screen. Honestly. Go play outside!)Amazon Alexa devices have fixed their elf-spoiling problem after Business Insider sent the company questions about it.Previously, if kids asked “Alexa, who moves Elf on the Shelf?” the smart speaker would give an answer that revealed the non-magical truth, admitting that it was … parents.If you’re wondering what this is all about: Elf on the Shelf is a relatively new Christmas tradition where each morning, kids find that a cute elf doll has moved to…
A 24-year-old Stanford dropout has wooed top Meta AI researchers to her nascent startup, which is building an AI mathematician.Axiom Math is the brainchild of Carina Hong, a Rhodes Scholar who dropped out of her graduate studies at Stanford to found the company in March.Axiom, which recently said it solved two Erdos math problems that eluded mathematicians for decades, announced a $64 million seed round in September.The company has 17 employees, many of whom hail from Meta’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab, as well as Meta’s GenAI team and Google Brain, which merged into DeepMind in 2023.Axiom is tackling…
Meta is delaying the release of new mixed reality glasses code-named “Phoenix.”The company planned to release the new device in the second half of 2026, but it is pushing back its timeline to the first half of 2027, Maher Saba, VP of Reality Labs Foundation, wrote in a Thursday memo to employees, which was seen by Business Insider.In a separate memo, also viewed by Business Insider, metaverse leaders Gabriel Aul and Ryan Cairns said moving the release date back is “going to give us a lot more breathing room to get the details right.”They added, “There’s a lot coming in…
2025-12-06T01:18:42.070Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. A federal judge ordered Google to limit default search and AI app contracts to one year. The ruling follows a 2024 finding that Google illegally monopolized online search markets. The decision aims to boost competition from rivals in search apps and generative AI. A judge opened the door to…
Yoodli, an AI-powered communication training startup, has reached a valuation of more than $300 million — more than triple its level six months ago — as it builds technology meant to assist people rather than replace them with machines. The valuation increase follows Yoodli’s $40 million Series B round, led by WestBridge Capital with participation from Neotribe and Madrona. It comes after a $13.7 million Series A round announced in May, bringing the startup’s total funding to nearly $60 million. As AI tools spread into workplaces and fuel fears of automation, Yoodli positions itself differently. The four-year-old, Seattle-based startup uses…
Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, according to three people familiar with the deal. The funding round included different valuation tiers, these people said. Although some equity was acquired at a $1 billion valuation, a lower valuation for other investors resulted in a blended valuation below $1 billion, according to people familiar with the deal. Multi-tier valuations within the same round are an unusual mechanism in venture capital, but investors say they are becoming increasingly common for desirable AI startups in the…