October 9, 2025
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STAT+ | Startups supporting Parkinson’s care pick up new investments and key hospital partnerships

Companies including Kneu Health and Rune Labs are raising money for Parkinson’s disease symptom monitoring tech.

By Mario Aguilar


Opinion: Parents of children with rare diseases ask: How long until our CRISPR miracle?

There is a critical gap in communication about the potential of gene therapies, and it’s hurting parents of kids with rare diseases.

By Celena Lozano


STAT+ | Novo Nordisk to buy Akero Therapeutics, picking up promising MASH drug

The deal, worth $4.7 billion upfront, centers on the drug efruxifermin, which has shown promising results in trials.

By Adam Feuerstein



Chandler Robinson is the CEO of Monopar Therapeutics.
Monopar Therapeutics

STAT+ | Monopar resurrects a shelved Wilson disease drug. Spotting a possible math problem helped

The therapy was abandoned by AstraZeneca, but a co-inventor believed the company had made a formula error in analyzing data.

By Adam Feuerstein


STAT+ | Expedition Therapeutics, a biotech company scouring China for drug candidates, raises $165 million

The funding will be used to advance a drug for the lung condition COPD that was originally developed by Shanghai drugmaker Fosun Pharma.

By Allison DeAngelis


Opinion: Pharma’s shift away from infectious disease research could spell disaster for the world’s poorest people

Fundamental changes to pharma are destroying the model that let my nonprofit bring medicine to the Global South.

By Laurent Fraisse


Party in biotech land and AstraZeneca’s miscalculation

STAT reporters discuss the rebound in biotech stocks, Peter Marks' new job after leaving the FDA, and a math error by AstraZeneca.

By Adam Feuerstein, Elaine Chen, and Allison DeAngelis


STAT+ | The limits of FDA flexibility are tested as a controversial Biohaven drug decision nears

With treatments for rare diseases, clinical data may not matter as much to FDA officials as they do in other cases.

By Adam Feuerstein


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