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The need-to-know this morning
Bristol Myers Squibb said it would acquire Orbital Therapeutics for $1.5 billion, picking up experimental in vivo CAR-T therapies that could be used to treat autoimmune diseases.
Boston’s biotech supremacy is being challenged
Boston has long been the undisputed capital of the world’s life sciences industry, but that may be changing, writes The Boston Globe’s Shirley Le