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Roche Digs Into Obesity-Tied Diseases With $3.5 Billion 89bio Buyout
Investors·2025-09-18 21:34

RETIREMENT: Should You Take Social Security ASAP?Shares of small biotech 89bio (ETNB) nearly doubled Thursday after Roche (RHHBY) agreed to buy the MASH drug developer in a deal worth up to $3.5 billion.89bio is working on a treatment for MASH, or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, a form of fatty liver disease often associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Its drug, pegozafermin, mimics a protein that helps regulate glucose and lipid metabolism.The acquisition underl ...