Schizophrenia-focused MapLight Therapeutics seeks IPO amid biotech industry slump - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Interesting speech by SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw on giving investors greater access to private markets: "As calls for retail investor access to private markets accelerate, I am concerned that we are headed for a high-speed collision – with main street retail investors left without airbags."

Early cancer detection test company Grail to relocate HQ from Menlo Park to Sunnyvale $GRAL www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news...

Roche looks to add weight to obesity-related portfolio with potential $3.5 billion 89bio deal - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

“In turning over personal information to the government, the UC gave us a glimpse into how it handles injustice: by turning its back on students and faculty and leaving us at a loss for information and security.” www.dailycal.org/opinion/edit... @ucaft.bsky.social

It got me: After five-plus years Covid-free, I tested positive today. Thanks, Obama!

'For companies that stand out, the money is there' — Peninsula biotech snags $65 million in barren funding landscape www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

23andMe's Lemonaid Health, bought for $400M, could sell for $10M - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Anixa is keying in on a single protein — called alpha-lactalbumin, or "a-lac" — that is produced in women's mammary glands to enable lactation for breastfeeding. The protein normally retires when it is no longer needed. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Massive Infinite biotech projects to replace iconic Golden Gate Produce Terminal — just not anytime soon www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

"You clearly tell them why their aunt didn't die of cancer, why their shingles is controlled and how the mRNA vaccines work. It's a difficult time, but you have to speak out." — Stanford's Lucy Shapiro on explaining science www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Delayed biotech project still will ring up Bay Area's newest Safeway www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

A $3.7 billion buyout nets an FDA drug approval five years later — and there may be more www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Vaccine developer Vaxart in shareholder showdown over reverse stock split plan as cash dwindles and RFKjr's HHS delays Covid vaccine trial www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Why FDA rejected Lykos' MDMA drug for PTSD and three other drugs from Ultragenyx, Unicycive and UCSF www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

'I can't wait to see where we go': Gilead Sciences breaks ground on latest part of massive multibillion-dollar buildout www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

@sfgiants.com Matt Chapman on his life with #Tourette syndrome: ‘You can still accomplish anything’ Excellent story from @susanslusser.bsky.social … www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Cytokinetics makes its case for heart-failure drug ahead of FDA decision, stock surges www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

How new Amyris CEO Kathy Fortmann is reshaping the pioneering biotech www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Every Republican senator voted to confirm RFK Jr. as health secretary except for Mitch McConnell, who is retiring and thus was under no re-election pressure. The entire Republican Party has embraced anti-vax policies. It is pro-polio, pro-measles, pro-Covid. It's a death cult.

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”

Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."

RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."

Senator Rand Paul takes aim at President Trump's tariff policies, arguing they overstep constitutional boundaries and calling for Congress to reassert its authority.

Owner Diana Mejia was in the United States legally on an asylum visa.

Dr. Anne Peled's practice helped improve breast-cancer surgery by retaining and reconnecting nerves. Now, she is the patient. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

26 August 1923 | A German Jewish woman, Ilse Kahn, was born in Wermelskirchen. She emigrated to the Netherlands. In November 1942, she was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz. She perished in the camp on 28 February 1943.

26 August 1883 | Jewish man, Gustav Israël Abineri, was born in Vienna. He emigrated to Belgium. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 4 September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

26 August 1925 | A Polish Jew, Hermann Schnee, was born in Rawa Ruska. In #Auschwitz from 26 March 1942. No. 27261 He perished in the camp on 24 April 1942.

26 August 1919 | A Pole, Kazimierz Superson, was born in Pełkinie. A paramedic. In #Auschwitz from 10 January 1941. No. 9140 Shot in the camp on 25 January 1943.

26 August 1911 | A Czech Jewish woman, Františka Roubičková, was born. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

I share my birthday and a mission with Witold Zacharewicz.

How Marc Benioff paired AI, prostate cancer experts to fine tune treatments www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco... via SFBusinessTimes

Gun violence remains the leading cause of death for U.S. children. But, please, can legislators and others who protect the gun lobby and glorify gun-carrying tell me again how this means "all lives matter"? publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/new-rep...

She wanted to give deported parents a choice. Then California’s Christian right attacked www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

The eyes have it: Peninsula startup looks to snap AI-powered pictures of the eyes for insights into blinding diseases and potentially more www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Genentech, Adaptive Bio end cancer-fighting deal once valued at $2 billion www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Some of today's graduates from the Bay Area Medical Academy, which is celebrating its 20th year. This group of grads includes participants in UCSF's medical job training program funded by the Crankstart Foundation. More here from last yr's kickoff of the UCSF program: share.google/rktqxxQAaa1S...

Tell the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents and Present: HOLD THE LINE against the Trump administration! No concessions whatsoever. Exhaust all legal remedies in fighting back. Draw on deep and wide support for public higher education in California. We can win. actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...

Two groups of parents dreamed the impossible — clinical trials for their kids' rare diseases. Now they're close to making it happen www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Peninsula biotech pursues "Don't eat me" signal in new mid-stage clinical trial in breast cancer — while it tries to stop being consumed itself www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco... via @SFBusinessTimes

It's the 104 year anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt being stricken with Polio. The US has been polio free since 1979. Because of... well, you know.

Cuts, deals push BioMarin toward $4 billion revenue target - San Francisco Business Times www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

As use of telehealth for medication abortion grows, new data offer window into patient population www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/t... via @statnews.com

RFK Jr.'s HHS delivers another stop-work order to Vaxart for oral Covid vaccine www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Intuitive Surgical's venture unit and others back Apreo Health's bid to reshape emphysema www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Nothing says stability like … www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/v...

A sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants. Story via @mmolteni.bsky.social, @aniloza.bsky.social, @angusrohan.bsky.social and me for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...

Is the Bay Area witnessing a golden age of hospital construction?https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2025/08/08/hospital-construction-booming.html

Some senior leadership reshuffles announced today at NIH. Head of peer review division Noni Byrnes is out after 25 years at the agency. Kate Klimczak, NIH's legislative policy director, is also out.