Merida Biosciences has emerged from Third Rock Ventures with $121 million in first-round financing for a pipeline of drugs for autoimmune diseases, headed by a Graves' disease candidate. The Cambridge ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

- Series A financing co-led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, BVF Partners and Third Rock Ventures CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merida Biosciences, a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of ...

Immunology continues to be one of the most active areas for drug research as the field aims to bring patients new ways to eliminate the antibodies driving autoimmune disease, but in a manner that does ...

The latest biotech to roll out of Third Rock Ventures is working on Fc-based therapeutics it hopes could offer new treatment options to patients with autoimmune disorders like Graves' disease. Merida ...

It's the sweetest way to start the month. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online ...

The cuisine of the Maya region is characterized by its unique flavors and use of ingredients from the south, from the famous cochinita to the apak-tsul or black stuffing. The options are enriched of ...

The inclusive world of Barbie is expanding yet again — this time, with the first-ever blind Barbie doll and a Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Toy manufacturer Mattel announced the two new additions ...

Barbie has announced two new additions to its growing line of diverse and inclusive dolls: a blind Barbie and the first Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Mattel announced the two new dolls on Tuesday ...

A new documentary tells the story of Black Barbie, and why she has meant so much to so many Gregory Wakeman - Freelance Writer Lagueria Davis has been working on her documentary, Black Barbie, since ...

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more ...

It’s National Barbie Day. Used to celebrate the iconic doll created by Mattel, the yearly occurrence brings back a feeling of childhood nostalgia. After all, most middle-class American women have had ...