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The Biotech Times is the news, analysis and intelligence publication for the professionals shaping the future of biotechnology — from genomics and drug discovery to medtech, cell therapy and synthetic biology.

We cover the science, the capital, the policy, and the people behind the companies redrawing the industry. Our readers are senior operators, investors, regulators and researchers in the UK, Europe, the Gulf, the US and Asia-Pacific.

Cell Therapy

Cell therapy's second act: why Boston is still winning

When the FDA approved the first CAR-T therapy for leukaemia in 2017, the assumption across the industry was that the blood cancer playbook would translate quickly into solid tumours. It did not.

AgriTech

UAE's agritech push: food security as industrial policy

The UAE imports roughly 85 per cent of its food. For a country that has made state-capacity industrial policy a signature of its modernisation, that number is not a fact to be accepted — it is a problem to be solved with capital and technology.