Biotech
‘Collision with reality’: The $100 billion downfall of an Aussie giant
There is no hiding from the bloody mess at CSL, one of Australia’s global success stories. Can it recover?
- Colin Kruger
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Could gene-edited ‘super quolls’ fight back against cane toads?
This marsupial carnivore is endangered, mainly because it tries to eat toxic cane toads. Some scientists think they can stave off extinction by fast-tracking 10,000 years of evolution to provide resistance.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
How RFK, China and leadership woes became a $4b storm for this Australian corporate giant
CSL’s share price has now halved in 18 months, shredding more than $70 billion of shareholder wealth after the latest writedowns and operational struggles.
- Colin Kruger
Boss of $83b giant CSL exits abruptly
Australian pharmaceuticals heavyweight CSL says its chief executive Paul McKenzie is leaving the company with immediate effect.
- Clancy Yeates
The married scientists torn apart by a COVID bioweapon theory
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the US, aided by allies of Donald Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of COVID-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
- Katie J.M. Baker
I did nothing wrong, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes claims from prison
Holmes is two years into an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, including Rupert Murdoch and Silicon Valley tycoon Larry Ellison.
- James Titcomb
The radical Australian experiments forcing the world to confront the ethics of life
From pig wings and lab-grown meat to mini-brains that make music, Perth has become a hub where art and science collide, raising profound ethical questions about what it means to be alive.
- Carla Hildebrandt
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Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant
CSL is battling the US president’s threat against big pharma and the vaccine scepticism of his health tsar, but that’s not why its shares plunged on Tuesday.
- Colin Kruger
This neuroscientist wants you to live forever. Here’s how
What if you could cryonically freeze your brain and be revived in the future? It’s not so far-fetched.
- Cassidy Knowlton
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Strategic CEO hire to drive NeuroScientific stem cell therapy release
NeuroScientific Biopharmaceuticals has made a second heavy-hitting appointment, with Melbourne-based exec Nathan Smith bringing his stem cell therapy nous as CEO.
- James Pearson