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In race for cancer therapy, a Chinese biotech surges 500%

Bloomberg In the global race to use human immune cells to fight cancers, a little-known Chinese firm called GenScript Biotech Corp. is emerging as one of the biggest stock gainers. Among the first Chinese developers of so-called CAR-T cancer therapies, GenScript’s shares have risen more than sixfold since June, when it reported positive results from early studies in 35 patients ...

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IOC to support North Korea for 2020 Tokyo games

Bloomberg The International Olympic Committee will support North Korea’s participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach told Kyodo News in an interview. “We will take the same approach in every respect with regard to Tokyo 2020 as we took with Pyeongchang 2018…We have always applied strict political neutrality, and then the same we will do for Tokyo ...

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Toyota’s Sony-loving design chief bets on buses, supercars

Bloomberg The man with the final word on design at one of the world’s biggest automakers sees a future dominated by self-driving boxes-on-wheels and souped-up sports cars. For Simon Humphries, who as of this year oversees design globally across Toyota Motor Corp.’s namesake and luxury Lexus brands, mobility will follow two divergent paths. One is the e-Palette, a customizable robo-van ...

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