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Juno Builds With X-Body Buy

by Lisa M. Jarvis
June 8, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 23

Juno Therapeutics has paid roughly $44 million in a mix of cash and stock to acquire X-Body, a Waltham, Mass.-based biotech firm with protein-engineering technology. Juno uses several different approaches to reengineer a patient’s own T cells to home in on and kill cancer cells. The X-Body purchase adds to a buying spree for Juno. In recent weeks, the Seattle-based firm shelled out $70 million for Germany’s Stage Cell Therapeutics, an expert in cellular therapy manufacturing, and paid $25 million up front to access Editas Medicine’s gene-editing capabilities.

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