STAT+: More signs that GLP-1s may help with peripheral artery disease
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Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?&#x A0;Sign up&#x A0;to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. I hope you’re all staying safe during this heat wave. Let’s get into the news today. The need-to-know this morning Ipsen is buying&#x A0;Memo Therapeutics, the developer of an experimental antibody against a virus that can complicate kidney transplants, for about $228 million upfront. The deal, which expands Ipsen’s rare disease pipeline, comes just days after the French firm announced it was also acquiring Kartos Therapeutics, picking up its drug candidate for a rare blood cancer. Anthropic says it will begin developing drugs The AI giant Anthropic said yesterday that it will try to develop drugs on its own, with executives saying the company needs to get hands-on experience solving real scientific problems.Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…