04:36 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Vertex Pharmaceuticals ( VRTX ) and Ono Pharmaceutical said Monday they signed an exclusive collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize Vertex's povetacicept product candidate in Japan and South Korea. Povetacicept is being developed for the treatment of immunoglobulin A nephropathy or IgAN, primary membranous nephropathy or pMN, and other B cell-mediated...

04:45 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Exelixis ( EXEL ) said Sunday its phase 3 Stellar-303 trial showed a statistically significant overall survival benefit in the combination of zanzalintinib and atezolizumab in patients with a type of metastatic colorectal cancer. The survival rate improvement was observed across all randomized participants compared with regorafenib, the company said. No new safety...

04:49 AM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Tesla (TSLA) deployed a limited fleet of self-driving taxis in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, according to Chief Executive Elon Musk and social media influencers who posted videos of their first rides on X. Culmination of a decade of hard work, Musk said in a social media post. Both the AI chip and software...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...