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1. FDA says initial rejections of new drugs have declined
2. Post-Hoc Live: The China Biotech Debate goes to Washington
3. CHMP backs Novo’s hemophilia A drug and seven other medicines 
4. Updated: Electra says $350M IPO will help it become a commercial biotech
5. China sets ambitious goals for global drug and biotech expansion in new five-year plan
6. Anthropic starts allowing some life sciences researchers to use Mythos
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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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Next week, we'll be unveiling this year's Endpoints 11, a list of the most interesting biotech startups. Hope you'll join us in Boston next Thursday for our annual gala. Get your tickets here.

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Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA is look­ing to dis­pel what it says are in­ac­cu­rate claims that it's in­creas­ing­ly re­ject­ing new drugs af­ter an ini­tial re­view.

The claims stem...

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by Drew Armstrong

There aren’t any easy an­swers around Chi­na and biotech.

End­points Newstook our Chi­na de­bate on the road to DC this week. We sat down...

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by Anna Brown

No­vo won reg­u­la­to­ry back­ing for its he­mo­phil­ia A pre­ven­tive drug from the Eu­ro­pean Med­i­cines Agen­cy's hu­man med­i­cines com­mit­tee, which al­so rec­om­mend­ed ap­prov­ing sev­en oth­er new...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Elec­tra Ther­a­peu­tics be­came the 21st biotech of 2026 to go through with an IPO af­ter pric­ing its $350 mil­lion Nas­daq de­but on Thurs­day evening.

The Bay...

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Endpoints 11 2026 - GALA DINNER
Real innovation is getting harder to spot. The Endpoints 11 is our read on the private companies clearing a rising bar, revealed at a gala dinner with the founders, investors and editors behind the list. Save on your gala pass with code ELEVEN26.
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by Drew Armstrong, Robert Postings, Lei Lei Wu

Any doubts about Chi­na’s am­bi­tions as a ma­jor glob­al com­peti­tor in bio­phar­ma are quick­ly dis­ap­pear­ing.

On Fri­day, the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment is­suedthe lat­est five-year plan...

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by Andrew Dunn

When it made its much-hyped Mythos avail­able back on Ju­ly 1, An­throp­ic said the AI mod­el was so pow­er­ful it could­n't al­low the tech­nol­o­gy to...